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These are the old inherited foundational lies of whiteness in the United States, which drive all our politics, and all our discourse:
1) we bear no relation to one another
2) life must be earned
3) violence is redemptive
therefore;
4) those who have not earned life must die
5) but first they must be used
6) and in the meanwhile, they must suffer
PORCO ROSSO is, in my opinion, pretty good.
Among Miyazaki's most glorious achievements in animation, particularly the dogfights, and the shimmer above the world sequence stands with his best. Rest of the story's sort of a muddled occasional Casablanca/To Have and Have Not mashup mixed in with what I believe to be an attempt at feminist messaging; it's ham-fisted whatever it is, pun very much intended. Anyway its charms outweigh its disenchantments; likely I'd like it a bit better on a second viewing now that I know the movie isn't going to the extremely gross place it constantly seemed to hint it might go. Anagram is "Coors Spoor."
Hey, look! Cover reveal for my upcoming book! Take a look and whatnot, and find out how you can see your name in it if that's something you've always wanted.
The last couple weeks of war have put me in mind of this remembrance I wrote a few years back.
"I'd like a bit more contemplation about what exactly it is we should Never Forget, and also what it is that we seem to want to Never Remember."
Don't shun people just because they have different beliefs about blotting out the sun to usher in a new age of eternal darkness. We have to find an answer in the middle.
When you write people off simply because they are actively working to make the entire planet a frozen apocalyptic wasteland, it actually is you who are blotting out the sun—the sun of free discourse.
by Thomas Chatterton Williams
Today I wrote about a proposed solution to a cult(ure) of abuse, which is to create a culture of healing, and about what conversations are (and are not) necessary in order to do so.
