And so let marvel and escapism become metonyms for each other, and the point still stands. Yes, escapism is the problem, and Marvel, as a giant corporation is a huge part of the problem.

So no one should complain about anything because that’s just the way things are? I can’t even believe you actually endorse this argument.

Well, how about this, because I think Marvel comics are sophomoric pieces of escapism, having basically no redeeming aesthetic or philosophic points, and since they drive the cultural conversation, due to money and influence, it is certainly legitimate to complain about them.

That’s such a bs line. The advertisements for Marvel movies are plastered everywhere, the commercials are all over tv, and so on. If you live in society you can’t possibly avoid encountering the Marvel stuff. True, you don’t have to see the movie, but the advertising is pretty unavoidable.

Go back to reddit, please.

Right? If I had the money, I’d be fat because I’d be eating fancy unhealthy food.

You make an excellent point, but I think it even reinforces the essay. What is the segment of the population except to the standard false allegation narrative to rape in this country? African - Americans. It certainly makes sense in the context of US history that black men would be the exception general narrative,…

We will, at any rate, and that is a good enough basis for conversation. Anyhow, you can only be a pretender to the Kingdom of Scoffs should you prove a lover of Everything is Badly Lighted, as described in the Act of Settlement.

You’re taking vindictive pleasure on behalf of a millionaire you don’t even know in any meaningful personal sense? (Slowly backs away)

best post i’ve seen tonight

“Everything is illuminated” is not now, never has been, nor ever will be “one of the most amazing books ever written, and the only proper attitude toward this fact is one of extreme gratitude.

The problem is that there are far more deserving novelists. He won praise for being a young man prepared to deal with large ideas, but it reads, at least to me, as rather naive on the Holocaust. I haven’t tried anything except for Illuminated.

I bet people’s sympathy for the situation derives from that, their public personas, and the fact she looks 46 has to leave an impression on the mind.

This article is nonsense. The understanding of “science” by the Greeks, and keep in mind it is a latin word, is vastly different than what we understand by science and its method today.

Actually, most ancient sources are pretty understanding of Draco, as the Athenians of the time seemed to badly need a new set of laws.

It’s always easily to cherry pick examples of defeat.

Well if you’re the Browns coach, it’s something to look at during the game.

What do you mean “incorrect?” You are agreeing with me that he is not a nihilist. It’s certainly not a “higher order” morality, the hierarchy of morals and their origin is what he spends most of his time critiquing. The Superman of Nietzsche is not possible, which, of course, he knew, and he uses the “Superman” as a…

This is the problem with comic book readers. You think Nietzsche is a nihilist when we was fighting what he saw as nihilism in European culture. It’s a rather college freshman grasp of Nietzsche.

Horrible, horrible dialogue