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Jim Goad on Quentin Tarantino, x eleventy

Hey, are you sick of me slagging Tarantino? Which I also did at Taki’s two years ago?

Well, now you can read Jim Goad doing it!

A couple years later I met comedienne Margaret Cho, who had dated Tarantino back in the early 90s when I was producing a violent magazine that had gained some notoriety due to the fact that my first wife and I posed with guns and cultivated an image as a Starkweather and Fugate duo ready to go postal at any moment. Cho told me she’d given Tarantino an anthology of my magazine and that he’d used me and my first wife as the character templates for his screenplay to the film Natural Born Killers, which was another ultra-violent film that seemed to have zero visceral understanding of violence.

Whereas I struggled to understand violence because I’d been exposed to it since infancy and because my deaf brother had been brutally murdered, Tarantino seemed to fetishize violence because he’d watched a lot of violent movies and thought it was awesome.

 

Rick McGinnis reviews ‘Hobo with a Shotgun’ — and agrees with me that Hauer’s ‘Tannhauser Gate’ speech is overrated b.s.

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Peter Hitchens seems vexed that not every book ever written was intended for him. Also that he didn’t write it.

Naturally, Peter Hitchens pretends to find Jordan Peterson’s appeal somewhat baffling, and his prescriptions lacking.

I say “pretends” because Hitchens has the self-awareness to “joke” about (and no one is ever just joking) the real rub:

That he is not as popular as this “out of nowhere” Canadian fellow who cries a lot.

His Speccie colleague, Douglas Murray, on the other hand, writes:

“Finally, as well as being funny, there is a burning sincerity to the man which only the most withered cynic could suspect. At several points on Sunday evening his voice wavered. At one point, overwhelmed by the response of the audience and its ecstatic reaction to him and his wife (who was in the audience) he broke into tears. It is an education in itself to see a grown man show such unaffected emotion in public. Certainly, he demonstrated to a young audience trying to order their own lives that an emotional person need not be a wreck and that a man with a heart can also have a spine.”

I’m seeing (and hearing privately) a lot of huffing and puffing about Peterson’s emotionalism, again from the right.

That Peterson is overwhelmed by his situation is understandable. Tens of thousands of strangers have told him that he has changed their lives. He now feels, being a sensitive and decent man, that he is somewhat responsible for all these souls and is overwhelmed. Frankly, I fear for his health, given the burden this represents.

As I say, Hitchens at least feints towards what’s really bugging many of these people. It is the Amadeus syndrome. Many of Peterson’s haters on the right have been toiling in the fields these long years, equally worried about, writing about, the treatment of men, especially young men; about the erosion of freedoms, etc.

Where, they are wondering, are their rewards? So they are bitter. It’s a feeling I’m familiar with.

But if they can’t be happy for Peterson, they also don’t seem capable of summoning up any happiness for the others they claimed to care about all this time — our young men and women being brainwashed, who have finally found someone to deprogram them.

So we see that these critics on the right were never really concerned with real change all along, since their attitude towards its advent is so negative. Despite their protestations, they clearly were hoping — just like the leftists they hate — that change would never come, so they could continue to complain.

Satire died in UK right around… ‘satire boom’

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Kurt Schlichter nails it (of course).

You know who bores me? The wonks and bores who say stuff like, “News/politics have become info-tainment blah blah zzzzz….”

WHO CARES?? Life is crazy. We might as well be amused.

But this is pranking with a point, with a purpose. Even better.

You say “Reality TV President” like that’s a BAD thing.

Enjoy your Excel spreadsheets about ridings and districts, and your 6-volume Russel Kirk. Yawn.

 

 

Jim Goad provides another reason not to go to New York

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Amis’ claim that he is through with “insulting people in print” is “a little disingenuous”

A review of Martin Amis’ latest non-fiction collection:

Amis can do a lot of things, but his genius has always been for vividness—“terrible compulsive vividness,” as his father, Kingsley, put it, not quite admiringly. The extreme case is other people’s bodies. One is reminded by Amis’s physical portraiture of what Norman Mailer said about Diane Arbus: Giving her a camera was “like giving a hand grenade to a baby.” When Amis picks up his pencil, he pulls out the pin. Donald Trump, “hammily scowling out from under an omelette of makeup and tanning cream,” has a “little woodland creature that sleeps on his head.” Rambo, aka Sylvester Stallone, is a “lethal trapezium of organ meat,” and Monica Jones, Philip Larkin’s rather handsome lady companion, “resembled an all-in wrestler renowned for his indifference to the norms of fair play.” In Las Vegas to gamble, Amis hits the poker tables, where he is reminded of Chris Moneymaker, the 2003 World Series of Poker champion, whose surname still raises certain questions: “What if he was called Chris Moneyloser or Chris Breadline or Chris Asshole?” It is at this point that Amis notices that Americans are kind of fat.

Or, as Amis has it, there’s a woman with “arms like legs, legs like torsos, and a torso like an exhausted orgy”…

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“Drag Queen Kids? Not Today, Satan!” Great video by Lucy Brown

I’m surprised Lucy Brown left out England’s centuries-old drag tradition.

For instance, in their family-friendly Christmas, “pantos”, the ugly sisters in Snow White are traditionally played by (mostly straight?) men — BUT there has NEVER been anything like this, er, dragging kids into it.

Just the opposite:

Except for pantos, English drag has always been a “naughty” but harmless grown up thing, in college productions and parties, in military camp shows, on Monty Python or whatever.

It wasn’t even necessarily gay — there was only one gay guy in Python, and not even his writing partner, John Cleese, knew he WAS gay for the first dozen years or so of their working together.

And surely all those soldiers weren’t gay, etc.

It’s just a “weird” traditional thing they do, like American football players patting each other on the butts.

But now it seems to be turning into a variation on that weird stuff they do in Afghanistan…

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Steve Sailer asks…

…but so admirable to excoriate “white privilege” in America?

Well, for one thing, “white monopoly capital” is a reasonably accurate term, while “white privilege” is largely used to revile whites who aren’t terribly privileged, like Ferguson ex-policeman Darren Wilson, or who aren’t terribly white, like George Zimmerman, or who aren’t terribly existent, like Haven Monahan.

In contrast, white monopoly capital really is a thing in South Africa, which was home to the world’s most famous monopoly since the 1911 breakup of Standard Oil, the De Beers diamond firm, which was founded by Cecil Rhodes and Alfred Beit. Until De Beers pled guilty to price-fixing in 2004, its executives could not set foot in the U.S. because they would have been arrested for violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act.

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There’s never an avalanche around when you need one

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“The JQ ‘infantilizes’ whites by casting them as gullible children…”

There is no “Jewish Question.” This b.s. reveals more about the “questioners” than it does about “the Jews.”

If you can’t figure out why a group of people who have a 5000 year history and tradition that prioritizes learning, family and success are GENERALLY so learned, family-oriented and successful, then — you’re a moron.

Do we need to examine “the Scottish question” to explain/complain about the Scottish Enlightenment? 

I’m female. Men built and invented 95% of the stuff in the world. WHO GIVES A SHIT?

I guess I’m the moron, because I literally don’t even understand the point of all this.

As always with David Cole, something to provoke and annoy everyone…

On the other hand, the JQ does allow whites to indulge in the fantasy of “white brotherhood,” by blaming Jews for all instances in which whites have slaughtered other whites. “If not for the Jews and their chicanery, we’d never have had these ‘brother wars.’” But what is that if not white nationalists once again aping black SJWs? What is that if not a refusal to face the reality of “white-on-white violence,” just as so many blacks refuse to face the reality of their own intraracial murders? (…)

Keep in mind, my beef with JQers is not that they dare to say negative things about Jews. I do that myself (and not just Jews, but blacks, whites, Latinos, and, well, everyone else). The problem is, the JQers take reasonable gripes and turn them into something fantastical. Take, for example, my suggestion that Jews achieve success based on merit as opposed to conspiratorial powers. Many readers might counter that claim by invoking a controversial 2012 American Conservative piece written by Ron Unz, in which Unz argued that the overrepresentation of Jewish students at Ivy League schools is due to nepotism, not merit. Specifically, Unz asserted that there is a direct correlation between the number of Jewish admissions and the high number of Jews in topmost administrative positions at those universities. Although Unz’s methodology was questioned by critics, let’s say, for the sake of argument, that he’s correct. Unz also clearly states that what he believes the Jewish university presidents and provosts are doing today—showing favoritism to Jewish students—is no different from what white Christian university presidents and provosts did back in the 1920s and ’30s, when they showed favoritism toward white, non-Jewish students.

In other words, if Unz has correctly identified a wrong, he admits that it’s not a uniquely Jewish wrong. It’s human nature, not a matter of “Jews being Jews.” Yes, there are traits and behaviors that are fairly unique to Jews, but the JQ nonsense muddies any intelligent discussion of the topic by labeling practically everything Jews do as “typically Jewish.”

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One of my pet peeves. Gavin McInnes has been great on this too.

Now here’s the inimitable :

Whether or not you’d like to pretend otherwise, censoring your own name is an act of surrender. If you’ve been frightened into anonymity, you’re conceding power to people who don’t like you and who don’t like what you have to say. It’s an act of submission. It means you’ve agreed to play on their game board. And the more that people willingly toss themselves down the Spiral of Silence, the less likely they are to uproot the powers that have scared them into silence in the first place. As long as they’re keeping you scared, you don’t have a fighting chance. (…)

Forget what anyone else tells you—the reason Trump won is because he has balls and he fights back. No one can frighten you into silence without your consent.

Therefore, come out of the closet, ye bigots, and be proud!

 

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Someone said “Leon Kass” and the Bush Administration flashed before my eyes. Looks like he’s back…

…once he got back to Harvard, however, Kass began to think that his progressive, well-educated friends were vain and self-absorbed compared to the farmers he and his wife had lived with in Mississippi. This raised a troubling question: What if scientific and cultural progress had no relation to moral virtue? (…)

Beneath all of his writings lies a deep skepticism toward modern science. He frequently refers to technological advances as “mixed blessings”—but often it is clear he does not view them as blessings at all. He is not against science as such; he praises it for putting “men on the moon, lights on the ceiling, and pacemakers in our hearts.” But more often his focus is on what scientific rationalism leaves out, notably the kinds of spiritual, moral and political judgments that might cause us to reconsider the power we grant science over human affairs. When science is our only authority, Kass says, “we triumph over nature’s unpredictability only to subject ourselves, tragically, to the still greater unpredictability of our capricious will and our fickle opinions.”

 

“America used to be able to afford nice things such as freedom of speech, science…”

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