For a genuine (and non-nihilist) attempt to defy the Nietzschean hegemony one should turn to another highly successful animated film, Ice Age (2002), which reads as an ideological rejoinder to The Lion King. Here too we have a literal blond beast, the prehistoric tiger Diego, a ruthless predator who reluctantly joins Manny the mammoth and Sid the sloth, in a journey through the icy wilderness, which confronts us with a compelling image of our own age of ice-cold, survival-of-the-fittest global scene. Diego begins to melt down in a scene which deconstructs one of the greatest anathemas of our, Nietzschean, times: the herd. Diego’s life is saved by Manny, who puts his own life on the balance. Astonished, he asks for an explanation for such altruism and gets the terse answer: “That’s what you do in a herd. You look out for each other.” To which Sid the sloth – himself a triumphant vindication of one of our age’s most reviled specimen: the (poor) freeloader – immediately adds: “I don’t know about you guys, but we are the weirdest herd I’ve ever seen”. Ice Age attempts to transcend the Nietzschean branding of the herd as a locus of mediocrity, anonymity and cowardice. The herd in the film, by contrast is composed of three distinct but equally valued personalities, that complete and enhance each other, providing much-needed solidarity, aid and affection, to go through the harsh winter of social Darwinism. As Sid declares, after outsmarting a larger predator: “Survival of the fittest? I don’t think so!” As against The Lion King’s insistence on eternal, sacrosanct hierarchy, Ice Age challenges the alleged laws of natural order of rank. As if to spite Hibbs-cum-Nietzsche, it stubbornly refuses ‘to distinguish between higher and lower’. Beyond the fact that the herd admits no such distinctions – its premise being equality in difference – the powerful master of the natural world, Man, the supreme hunter, is taught a lesson in compassion by the three brutes, who return to him his lost baby.
I need a term for non-magic-users that doesn't have the connotation of looking down on them for not having magic...
Is magic learned, or genetic?
If learned, 'the uninitiated' could work.
(i feel like fairies would probably not worry too much about being insulting to non-magic users)
This makes me think learned and/or, and how learnable it is. Do you have to go to an Academy to be a magic user? Is it possible to learn in nonstandard ways, but looked down upon, and/or restricted, and/or ineffective? Etc.?
I specify this because there is surely a system to it, and I'd like to understand the system first before commenting on those outside of the system(s?).
Y'know, while i'm a little unsure how seriously to take the reading of Ice Age as concerned with or responding to Nietzschean values, i quite like the interpretation of it as a rejoinder to The Lion King.
i've said before, Disney movies tend to skew towards a certain conservatism, relative to the time at which they came out. A lot has been written about the assumed social hierarchy in The Lion King, that's not really in question. Ice Age is certainly concerned with the nature of the herd, and the promotion of 'equality in difference' seems like a fair summation of the film's expressed morals.
Unlike tacos, gyros form part of the sandwich family and are differentiated from other hand-held semi-folded foods by their complete over-wrap but unsecured lower flap.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I need a term for non-magic-users that doesn't have the connotation of looking down on them for not having magic...
Is magic learned, or genetic?
If learned, 'the uninitiated' could work.
(i feel like fairies would probably not worry too much about being insulting to non-magic users)
This makes me think learned and/or, and how learnable it is. Do you have to go to an Academy to be a magic user? Is it possible to learn in nonstandard ways, but looked down upon, and/or restricted, and/or ineffective? Etc.?
I specify this because there is surely a system to it, and I'd like to understand the system first before commenting on those outside of the system(s?).
I always figured that everyone is born with a certain level of innate magic, ranging from almost none to Princess Alice, but to use it effectively you need practice and training.
To that end I'd say formal schooling isn't necessary, but a lot of people go for it to try to hone their abilities most efficiently. Lily Weiss, I've always thought, is a bit of a self-taught witch, in addition to her shapeshifting powers.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
yeah, so I noticed....I don't think my cable system back home even carries Retro TV anymore. If I want to run any of this back to look for logos or other ephemera, I'd have to hook up the VCR. :P
I've eaten next to nothing today because eating has been a legitimate difficulty today, never mind yada yada yada. Eventually I'll just stuff myself full and feel lazy, probably.
I've eaten next to nothing today because eating has been a legitimate difficulty today, never mind yada yada yada. Eventually I'll just stuff myself full and feel lazy, probably.
:(
Hope you feel more up to eating after you get back.
"Less Wrong forms its opinions based on hard-headed empiricism and a disdain for empty verbiage" is basically equivalent to "Fundamentalists are just basing their beliefs on the older tradition of reading the bible literally, which has gone out of fashion in our secular age"
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If learned, 'the uninitiated' could work.
(i feel like fairies would probably not worry too much about being insulting to non-magic users)
surgery... it's hard
i've said before, Disney movies tend to skew towards a certain conservatism, relative to the time at which they came out. A lot has been written about the assumed social hierarchy in The Lion King, that's not really in question. Ice Age is certainly concerned with the nature of the herd, and the promotion of 'equality in difference' seems like a fair summation of the film's expressed morals.
THE BLOOD MUST FLOW.
I like burritos.
an observation everyone else made already probably
lol i'm seeing this and thinking "Trails in the Sky"
it's also open to more puerile readings, so i probably shouldn't use that abbreviation
To that end I'd say formal schooling isn't necessary, but a lot of people go for it to try to hone their abilities most efficiently. Lily Weiss, I've always thought, is a bit of a self-taught witch, in addition to her shapeshifting powers.
It's a really weird schedule, and not entirely in a bad way.
*chair*
*dog pee*
*post-combustion capture*
*ferrous oxide*
*Ichamenid*
*wonder-kong*
Note: the art of nothing is not an art. Milhouse, however, is a meme.
Logan Airport in New York City
explanation: Chris Noth is the actor who plays Detective Mike Logan in Law & Order. Logan is the name of Boston's airport.
a proper noun
Hope you feel more up to eating after you get back.
how are you op
because aphids tend to be pretty up
...i'm sorry, i can't write while i write. unless one of them is a distraction.