Defiance vs pathfinder

Watching pathfinder Vikings meet American Indians was quite enjoying it until they started playing the victim card again.... Poor defenceless Indians what a load of rubbish. Indians vs Vikings the Indians win on their home ground.

I really liked the idea that the Viking longships had shelter for long voyages. I really liked how fearsome and alien they looked. I just hate to see another Indians are the victims film. It's just more complicated than that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ2Db_ppF9s

Vs

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_colonization_of_the_Americas

The American Indians were and are much stronger than all this BS.

Native Americans were and are a strong proud warrior race with lots of tribal conflicts that were taken advantage of. They are not just victims of the white man or circumstance.

When I think of house of cards and Indians gambling concessions, nestles deals with native water rights, other deals with oil rights.

It makes me cross. The victim card. Like American English black slavery. slavery existed before the white man and still exists. People do it to themselves.

People need to take responsibility for their own exploitation rather than playing the victim game. Why did the Jewish people walk to their death in the gas chambers?

I guess what makes me really angry is that I'm not sure if I play the conformist victim card myself.

Defiance
http://youtu.be/yw6Rwum7zcU

Full film about Jewish partisans here
http://youtu.be/Lg66O6tO6SY

Another trailer
http://youtu.be/8Iyxc5EHtrU

Fish noticing water

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ-3m5W4cp4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Fish noticing water
Being an educated slave doesnt stop you being a slave.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaVrn1Sz0H8&sns=em

There is a serous topic here.   I do wish i would lighten up sometimes ;(

It is very sad that such a talented writer decided to kill himself.

Being an educated slave doesnt stop you being a slave.

There is a subtext to this that really pushes my buttons.

It is well written and i love the concept of fish and water which im sure ive seen somewhere else.

This guy mentions it about 10 seconds in recorded 1992.  Micheal talbot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ-3m5W4cp4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ-3m5W4cp4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Dennis dalton makes a similar allusion in his lecture on marxism and alienation. 

Killing yourself doesnt validate your ideas especially if they are about freedom and dealing with life.

It reminds me of fight club,  choose life from trainspotting.

Bitter, condescending, self righteous and ultimately depressing.

Being an educated slave doesnt stop you being a slave.


“All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable which makes you see something you weren't noticing which makes you see something that isn't even visible.” 
― Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

It echoes the nietzchian staring into the abyss realising the futility and pointlessness of life and then going mad and killing oneself.


https://www.facebook.com/holt.brendon/posts/563035010429628?comment_id=79543552&ref=notif¬if_t=like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaVrn1Sz0H8&sns=em


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Foster_Wallace

Wallace's fiction is often concerned with irony. His essay "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction",[26] originally published in the small-circulation Review of Contemporary Fiction in 1993, proposes that television has an ironic influence on fiction writing, and urges literary authors to eschew TV's shallow rebelliousness: "I want to convince you that irony, poker-faced silence, and fear of ridicule are distinctive of those features of contemporary U.S. culture (of which cutting-edge fiction is a part) that enjoy any significant relation to the television whose weird pretty hand has my generation by the throat. I'm going to argue that irony and ridicule are entertaining and effective, and that at the same time they are agents of a great despair and stasis in U.S. culture, and that for aspiring fictionists they pose terrifically vexing problems." Wallace used many forms of irony, but focused on individuals' continued longing for earnest, unselfconscious experience and communication in a media-saturated society.[27] Literary critic Adam Kirsch said that Wallace's "self-conscious earnestness" and "hostility to irony defined a literary generation".[28]


rorschach77511 hours ago
In a way, this is a pretty horrible speech. At about 5:00 I can't be the only one who doesn't need to constantly remind myself not to hate people. I actually like people. I like shooting the shit with the store clerks. I like shuffling around lost in the grocery store. I don't have a problem going outside after work. I prefer it, to farting around in front of the TV.


jinhur11 hours ago
i believe, the bottom line, or ur idea of his bottom line, may be determined as something that is not preliminary but an after effect, only gained, or permitted to thereafter, by higher education. something that people could come to their senses or, should i say, SHOULD because others are in essence experiencing misery u cannot imagine. in that respect i believe its condescending n bitter. altho* at first be may be very, very sweet. but i never said people dont like sour candies. so yea. cheers


Jorge Coria 3 Sep 2013
i think someones being a bit self righteous. who are you to question someone elses motives for living a life they truly find fulfilling? maybe instead of attacking another persons recipe for happiness on youtube, maybe you should be out changing the world with all the empathy you have.



xcherryjonesx17 Aug 2013
Did you watch until the end of the video? Middle class corporate American's aside- the intent was to make one realize that too much of your waking life is spent thinking about problems, but all you see is someone complaining about "first world problems". If they broadened the subject, the person, to appeal to someone with "actual problems" the message would still apply. You have freedom in your mind, if you choose to not be a prisoner of your environment. All people can benefit from this


Choose life


I just find the ideological  duality grating ...

Tell me more Ewan mcgregor and  Danny boyle about the emptiness of consumerism and success.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaTQqEXNd0k&feature=youtube_gdata_player

like the precept in Wall e.
tell me more disney about the meaningless and environmental harm of mass produced consumer garbage.

http://repository.library.georgetown.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10822/558271/Yandel_georgetown_0076M_12295.pdf?sequence=1

Violence and the scared

Religion, sacrifice, scapegoats, violence. Celebrity culture. Gun crime


http://whyguncrime.blogspot.co.uk/

Gun crime.... Was interesting to see that the sniper had a brain tumour. That explains a lot.

This says its as well as i could....thx to daniel mckay for this..

John David Ebert

It started in the workplace in the late 1980s with postal shootings, then spread in the 1990s from the workplace to school shootings, malls and most recently, movie theaters.

It is not a function of pyschotic individuals or the conservative right insisting on making guns available. It is rather the very structure of American society itself, a society based on intense social competition, greed, and social punishment. Penalizations for failing in American society are harsh: ostracism, social banishment, humiliation and imputations of worthlessness.

It is a society based on rewarding the few, very few, "winners" and on punishing the losers with excessive severity. The humiliated and disempowered "losers" strike back in an effort to restore their damaged identities the only way they perceive that they can: by hurting the society that has humiliated and punished them, striking back with violence that empowers the individual to restore and maintain a sense of dignity and identity in the face of a threatened erosion of that identity.

A society that breeds mass shootings is itself to blame, for it has created an ecology of social violence that damages individuals so severely that it leaves them feeling that there is no other choice but to strike back against that society with equal and opposite severity.

Changing gun laws is not the solution; it is the society itself that must change, but American society ISN'T going to change anytime in the near future.

Social barbarity is of its very essence and part of the engine that drives it to be the most rapacious, resource gobbling society of angry selfish individuals that the planet has ever seen.

The terrible truth is that our mass production of spree killers is testament to the fact that the system is working, for it is based on rewarding sociopaths and excluding losers.

Congratulations, America, you're model is working.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE8H1xsz54I&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Try to hang on in the vid until ....
842.... School shootings, Semiotic vacancy of meaning, superficial cosmology of the suburbs, Foundational act of violence a la renee gerard violence in the sacred, Commenerated in ritual,

This links in to the pel podcasts on celebrity and societies visceral need for sacrifices.

http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Violence_and_the_Sacred.html?id=RGVKsW5rQ1kC&redir_esc=y

This links to rick roddick and foucault. The self under seige.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wetwETy4u0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Whats the point of doing anything?

existential pointlessness of existence.... Existential pointlessness  I could give you some books and links but it would all be pointless....  (just kidding) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_nihilism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_nihilism The meaning of life is that there is no meaning. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_Sisyphus The myth of sysiphus.... We are all rolling a rock up a slope that never ends. Some pel links to related subject matter... http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/2009/06/22/episode-4-camus-and-the-absurd/ The sickness unto death http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/2010/11/21/episode-29-kierkegaard-on-the-self/ Emptiness and the nirvana of non being http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/2010/10/10/episode-27-nagarjuna-on-buddhist-emptiness/ Sartre http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_and_Nothingness Particularly his concept of nothingness and how to deal with it.  He puts a positive spin on it ... Engage with life fufill uour quests etc. The galaxy song monty python http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWVshkVF0SY&feature=youtube_gdata_player http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilism Nietzsche At the age of 18, Nietzsche lost his faith in traditional religion. His faith received a fatal blow when he found philosophy. In 1865 Nietzsche discovered Schopenhauer's World as Will and Idea. The work forever changed Nietzsche's view of the world. Schopenhauer's philosophy was rather dark for its time; it became a part of Nietzsche's world-view as it was well-suited to his nature. "It seemed as if Schopenhauer were addressing me personally. I felt his enthusiasm, and seemed to see him before me. Every line cried aloud for renunciation, denial, resignation." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism#Despair