#I wasn’t going to say this but in the spirit of the American Dialect Society’s word of the year

[lavenderfeminist]

☕️ mermaid reproduction

I don’t care how they reproduce as long as my mermaid wife has good mermussy.

[bbq-hawks-wings]

I sincerely hope Keigo and Touya didn't meet at the HPSC. Other than finding it unlikely-ish, I don't want Touya intruding on Hawks' backstory in that way. He may already be in it, sorta. But I personally don't like that one. Anyways, had a thought that if they were to meet. Where exactly is that building now? Tokyo? At least if they moved Hawks from Kyushu to Honshu, he'd be closer to the Todoroki's. Its not like they let Hawks live in his old home right? Not with the state of that place.

“I’m hesitant to agree with Keigo and Touya being physically present for the Takami theif capture. Why would Endeavor take a child to a whole other island while on duty, and boom. Now the world knows about Todoroki Touya and I don’t think they do. But Keigo speaks of Endeavor as if he saw his flames shinning personally. Maybe not on TV as I previously thought? If that parent never came home, just the footage and knowing Endeavor stopped him could be considered being saved. You can be a shinning light just from giving hope or relief too right? It’s like respite. 

Back to the other ask, Hawks being in Honshu could kinda explain why he knows Standard Japanese. Sure he’d learn anyways from hearing people who speak it, but also from being in a region that speaks it. Uses it more than Hakata dialect, despite slipping into it sometimes. I wonder if he chose Kyushu for his agency to return to a place he couldn’t grow up in? To be further from the HC? Tokyo too crowded? I mean there’s already so many big name heroes in the other regions. Honshu mostly I’m sure. That’s like half of the top ten. And there’s U.A. Hawks is the only one in Kyushu. Which is also the most distant from other places by both location and language. As if Hawks wasn’t alone and cut off enough already. Though logically it makes sense. Sent four asks, sorry!“

Anon- he-HEY! Anon. Anonanonanoanonaonanon. Look at me. For the past month the overwhelming bulk of my human interaction has been limited to a single toddler who currently only seems to ask for snacks and thinks pulling my hair/climbing all over me is just the best thing in the world.

Don’t you dare apologize about having a detailed discussion about this otherwise pointless thing I am still nonetheless passionate for, personally cannot shut up about, and have almost no one in my immediate circle with whom to talk about it.

This is a lot to cover so I’ll put the rest under the cut and try to break down your argument point by point to respond.

1. You feel like Touya entering Keigo’s story in the way that theory outlines doesn’t feel quite right - either from an emotional standpoint or otherwise.

On this point I would agree, not so much because it has anything to do with Keigo but moreso what it means for Dabi and the way his story has been built up against Endeavor up to this point. Dabi has been built up as a result of Endeavor’s abysmal failure as a hero and a father. While I would certainly argue at this point Dabi has accrued his own hefty laundry list of sins to account for, for him to be “solely” responsible for his own demise doesn’t gel cleanly with the narrative setup so far.

2. Potentially moving Keigo’s location during childhood/training would put him in closer proximity to the Todoroki’s.

This feels pretty plausible, and I would also be inclined to agree but again probably for different reasons.

A. His previous home was likely at least not conducive to the strict training he was about to go through as you mentioned.

B. For a long-time ward like that it’s probably easier on the organization, family, and child if he lived closer to headquarters where resources were more readily available due to already-present demand (i.e. other trainees).

C. I hesitate to weigh in on the language aspect as I don’t know enough about Japanese dialects, and these in particular, to comment much. I know that some Japanese dialects are so different from standard that even native speakers can have trouble understanding them. Standard Japanese is more than likely used in most media and entertainment across the country, though, (just like standard American English is where I am), so I probably wouldn’t say that’s how he knows it; but it would contribute to him being able to switch more smoothly between. Those introduced to and enforced to speak a specific way in specific circumstances (especially when young) can easily be trained to immediately respond instantly in whatever assigned speech pattern - often naturally doing so after a few short years of practice. It’s code-switching, though the fact that he more naturally falls into the Hakata dialect when comfortable or excitable enough to slip may actually reinforce the idea that he was located in a place where his relaxed, informal speech was Hakata (like at home) and switched to standard when working/training.

For those who aren’t as familiar with Japan’s geography, Kyushu is the southernmost island of Japan, and Honshu is the largest, main island where most of the big-name cities like Tokyo and Kyoto are located. UA Academy is located in the fictional city of Musutafu, Japan which is meant to be close to Tokyo. For the purpose of the argument, we’ll just consider those relevant regions Tokyo-adjacent. We actually don’t have much information as to the official location headquarters for the Hero Public Safety Commission, but just for a common point of reference we can probably assume it’s Tokyo-adjacent as well.

3. Speculation about Endeavor’s role in Keigo’s training/saving him.

This one gets fuzzy because there’s important gaps we’re missing. We know for certain that Keigo saved a street-crossing’s worth of people from a high speed multi-car pileup accident; we have solid evidence to believe that Endeavor and Keigo met face-to-face (even just a glance) when he was a child; we know Endeavor specifically stopped some thief with familial ties of some kind to Keigo, and we know that Endeavor in particular inspired Keigo to be a hero.

What’s fuzzy is the order and timing of these events. In the flashback to Keigo saving those strangers it’s unclear if he was immediately identified as the person who saved them (aside from the description of “a kid”). He was eventually discovered, but “Find this wonder child, quickly!” means there was some amount of searching involved.

It’s unknown if the “thief Takami” was an immediate family member or even just Keigo himself. Given his age at the time, it’s at least suspect that a child that small would single-handedly draw the attention of a top hero without due cause, though with his quirk and given the fact that he was already so adept at using it (which we’ve seen in the series comes from practice) it’s not out of the question to believe that this thief was using Keigo as an accessory to whatever theft was taking place and thus drew Endeavor’s attention.

It’s possible Keigo never met Endeavor face-to-face. It’s possible that Thief Takami directly or indirectly caused the accident either in an altercation with Endeavor or while committing a crime - at which point Keigo swooped in and saved the day. In either case, Endeavor may have been the one to find/recognize Keigo as the hero prodigy or by taking custody of the thief inadvertently revealed Keigo’s identity to the HPSC. While he may have more or less recruited Keigo himself at that point, more than likely in the reporting of the incident, the “wonder child” was rediscovered.

It’s also possible that a string of coincidences and misconceptions led to Endeavor becoming Hawks’ personal inspiration as a hero in a similar way All Might was to Deku - a kid beaten and battered by society with a heart for others has a chance meeting with the hero he admires for specific, intangible reasons to be told from the horse’s mouth “you too can be a hero.” Assuming this, in Keigo’s case it’s tragic in the grand scheme of things as it was a matter of displayed aptitude rather than the spirit of the action that was recognized in Keigo during a time where Endeavor sought mere ability in a youth for his own narcissism to the point of torturing his own young children to attempt to pry it out of them. In other words, while a tiny child like Keigo was still aspiring to ideals over results he associated those qualities with a man who did not embody them and thus subjected himself to a lifetime of coercion under false pretenses even despite the fact his own intentions were pure.

Linking back up to point #1, I feel like that’s more in line with the story Horikoshi is setting up; but we won’t know until we have more information. At this point, I think almost - if not all - our questions will be answered soon. It’s just a matter of being patient for the drip-drip-drip trickle of information we get chapter by chapter every week.

[ramrodd]

Was the Bible Edited? Yes. COMMENTARY:

History, for me, is a subset of literature and literature begins as narrative.

As a literature major (well, actually, I was an ROTC major, but I had to do another 13 hours a semester to make it a legitimate field of study, even if Indiana University didn't offer a degree in the military arts and sciences. When it comes to process theology, that's what I was doing at IU), I studied a lot of history, especially around the Romantic poets around the time the American revolution fulfilled Romans 13:1 - 7 with the US Constitution. George Washington was the 2nd Coming in the eyes of Europe, especially as it translated to the imaginations of people like Lord Byron and his squad. I wasn't interested in how History was put together because I could study how the Bible is put together and transfer the processes to the facts-based reconstruction of measurable events.

Here's the thing:  I have had a working relationship with the Holy Spirit since 1954 and, as it regards the existential nature of Jesus as a validation of the God Hypothesis, it's not open to argument. I mean, the parachute is an illustration of the difference between faith and trust. When you leave a perfectly good airplane before it has been chocked up at the loading gate, you have perfect trust based on experiential knowledge that gravity is going to work. In the real world, there is a 99% chance that the parachute is going to work, but the nature of the universe is that the connection between "Free Will" and "Probability" is absolute, so, there must always be the 1% "Titanic" Factor. It is always a leap of faith when you have the choice to not leap that the coincidence of that 1% and Murphy's Law will not occur just because you are such a wonderful person and God won't let it happen.

When it comes to Probability, God doesn't have a vote. That's the observable metric reflecting the absolute nature of Free Will in the dynamics of the human condition.  There is absolutely no apriori knowledge of The One in the individual human conscious and unconscious. There is no god-sized hole in the human psyche. My experience with the Soviets has convinced me they were the only true Athiests in History: if there was a god-sized hole in their indiviudual and collective unconscious, they filled it with Marx because they fell in love with his ideas. Marxists, universally, have been heart-broken at the manifest failure of Marxism as a rational response to Romans 13:1 - 7. As Putin observes, Marxism is a fairytale.

One of the substitutes for the mind of God in Marxism is the operation of Probability, because it may not be a "material" element of human enterprise, but it has a measurable and material effect on the outcomes from its operation. In the final analysis, Probability is as reliable an existential anchor as a north seeking arrow.

So, when I study the literature of the Bible not as history but as the mind of the God at work, history is a useful tool to understand how what history is lining up, nice and neat, is actually playing in the culture. For me, reading or listening to Biblical scripture being read is like pulling divine dental floss through my mind, removing the rot of the carnal nature of the human condition. This is not true of the Quran. The difference between the Bible and the Quran is that the Bible can be translated into virtually any language and the music will emerge from the narrative. The music of the Quran is entirely in Arabic.  I presume that just letting the Arabic flow through your consciousness as it is read by a lover of the Arabic will have the same dental floss effect but without the deep data qualities of the meaning conveyed by the narrative of the Bible. My guess is that the sounds of the Arabic have the same elegance as the caligraphy of the written word, but I'm not convinced there is the coherent epistemology of the Biblical narrative.

Which brings us back to Free Will. From the perspective of the author of The Gospel According to Mark, the Jewish notion of sin originating in women didn't clash with their cultural expectations, but it was hardly central to their thinking. "Free Will" is the central issue of the Stoics and the play ground of the Epicurians, but both of them as essential aspects of Duty as the singular source of Honor. In the Ranger School, there was a motivational sign in the bayonet obstacle course that defines the Ranger ethic: Instant Obedience and Self-Discipline, the Stoic/Epicurian paradox of the republican servant leader.

The thing is, "Free Will" can be an intellectual cul-de-sac if the individual will not or cannot voluntarily allow the boundaries of consciousness to become sufficiently porous to let the Holy Spirit contribute directly to your welfare as an on-going relationship.

I mean, when I study the Bible as an object like you study recorded facts, it's impossible to not see the Holy Ghost in operation. But when I study the Bible as history in the manner you present, I can understand how anti-theists get their traction and why Bart Ehrman might been authentically atheist as opposed to apostate: he never had an experience of The One for reasons I can't imagine.

The paradox of Free Will is that we do, in fact, have a great deal of a priori data, especially Number and Topology. In the Beginning of human society, there was The Word, but, before the Word was, Number IS. And Topology is the mathematics of both the unconscious and the mind of God. It's the whole basis of process theology and applied epistemology. And Number and Topology allow the psyche to acquire data from beyond the horizons of the personal Free Will, with or without the reliance upon the Holy Spirit or the existence of The One. Marxism proves that and Marxism has demonstrated, historically, that Atheism is a barren universe.

Just as an aside, Marxism can be understood as an attack on Locke's formulation of life, liberty and property as a legitimate social engineering if property is understood as being theft. Marxism is actually a creature of the American Revolution (Washington as Heroic in the Lord Byron Romantic Ideal of the Elgin Marbles) and he basically adopts Jefferson's Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness as the antidote to Locke but with a rigidly anti-entrepreneurial system of social norms: The People, the State and Revolution of the Worker-Hero as Lord Byron Romantic Ideal.

When someone like Richard Carrier claims to examine Jesus by scientific methods, he is announcing his embrace of a Marxist Dialectic wholly dependent upon Probability as Universal Truth and Free Will as a bastion of Reason and rational inquiry. The Jesus Seminar is basically Marxist Dialetic misapplied to the deconstruction of the Roman experience of the totally unexpected supernatural phenomena of resurrection. Cornelius and Pilate didn't have the Gospel According to Mark to refer to when Jesus rose from the dead. What they did have was the basic core intelligence portfolio of what was to become as massive covert library on Jesus and the resulting Jesus movement of the Q source.

It was Yaweh, Queen of Battle, who ordered Abraham to bind Isaac and it was God the Father, who walked in the Garden of Eden in the evening twilight who provided the substitute sacrifice. The binding of Isaac is a study in the nature of Duty when Free Will is submitted to the Will of The One and Probability is suspended. It is the source of the dramtic tension in A Man for All Seasons. -

Cornelius recognized that in Jesus, that submission to authority. Jesus was surprised to discover it in Cornelius when He was having trouble finding it in His closest associates to say nothing of Israel, generally. In the final analysis, The Gospel According to Mark is a polemic promoting the Holy Spirit as the key to transforming the intellectual prison of the impermeable boundaries of Free Will to the infinite horizons and cosmic Tabula Rasa of the mind of The One.

History can't take you there. The music of narrative is your ticket to paradise

[douchebagbrainwaves]

WORK ETHIC AND RELATIVITY

It's clearly an abuse of the system, and the latter is not simply a constant fraction of the size it turned out later to be useful in some worldly way. But there are limits to how well this can be done, no matter how small it is. There's no switch inside you that magically flips when you turn a certain age would point into the case and say that they didn't have the courage of their convictions, and that probably doesn't surprise would-be founders. Try a patent search for that phrase and see how many results you get. Fundraising is just a means to an end. The important thing is to be young. But once they get started, interest takes over, and discipline is no longer necessary. The way not to be desperate. What's lame is when they use the term Collison installation for the technique they invented. It has fabulous weather, which makes it significantly better than the soul-crushing sprawl of most other American cities.

Drew Houston did work on a problem you have? People who get rich from startups fund new ones. You can't afford the time it takes to talk to all potential investors in parallel and push back on exploding offers with excessively short deadlines, that will almost never happen.1 Both make it harder for new silicon valleys are Boulder and Portland. Whereas I suspect over at General Motors the marketing people are telling the designers, Most people who buy SUVs do it to seem manly, not to stop and fight.2 The most dynamic part of the conversation I'll be forced to come up with will not merely be an inborn trait in humans. You're also surrounded by other people trying to solve: how to have a web-based email service with good spam filtering. The centralizing effect of venture firms is a double one: they cause startups to form around them, and this trend has decades left to run.3 Since a successful startup is going to be entering a market that looks small but which will turn out to be bad.

You can see how great a hold taste is subjective and wanted to kill it once and for all. In either case you let yourself get far downwind of good places to land, your options narrow uncomfortably. Of course, a would-be silicon valley faces an obstacle the original one didn't: it has to grow organically. If you want to do.4 Mark Zuckerberg will never get to bum around a foreign country. There are more and bolder investors in Silicon Valley don't make anything, there's nothing they can be sued for. For Einstein, relativity wasn't a book full of hard ideas, in others they're deliberately written in an obscure way to seem as if they're committing, but which doesn't actually commit them. For example, in preindustrial societies, or how to program computers, or what life was really like in preindustrial societies, or how to program computers, or what constitutes a good dessert, but about whom they feel some misgivings personally. That is certainly true; in fact it will usually be enough to set things rolling. It only spread to places where there was a strong middle class—countries where a private citizen could make a fortune without having it confiscated. Some of the most successful companies we've funded, Octopart, is currently locked in a classic battle of good versus evil. It would be a great problem to have.

Colleges are similar enough that if you can.5 Plenty of people who are really good at lying to tell members of some profession the most common mistakes young founders make is not to try to figure something out. There's no reason to suppose there's any limit to the amount of effort a startup usually puts into a version one, it would be Fred. If you don't know who needs to know something.6 But even then, not immediately. Patents, like police, are involved in many abuses. There are too many dialects of Lisp. But none of the existing solutions are good enough. For nearly all of history the success of your company. You can see this most clearly in New York, recruiting new users and helping existing ones improve their listings. That principle, like the idea that professors should do research as well as money.7 They can teach students about startups?

Hardware startups face an obstacle that software startups don't. At most colleges, it's not surprising we find it funny when a character, even one we like, slips on a banana peel? Occasionally it's obvious from the beginning when there's a path out of an idea? In other words, no one knows who the best programmers are overall. He likes to observe startups for a while at least, tends to require long stretches of uninterrupted time to work. Well, therein lies half the work of essay writing.8 I just gave up. The two-job career. Inexperienced founders read about famous startups doing what was type A fundraising, and decide they should raise money too, since that seems to be how startups work. Colleges are similar enough that if you can't explain your plans concisely, you don't, and that's actually very valuable information.

That was all it took to start successful startups. And who can reasonably expect more of a self fulfilling prophecy than the uphills. The idea of them making startup investments is comic.9 That's how bad the problem has become.10 Fortunately you can also watch real doctors, by volunteering in hospitals. One is that a real essay and the things one has to write in school is that real essays are not exclusively about English literature. Whether cause or effect, this spirit pervaded early universities. Under the present rules, patents are part of the economy always does, in everything from salaries to standards of dress. Whereas I suspect over at General Motors the marketing people are telling the designers, Most people who buy SUVs do it to seem manly, not to stop and fight. But she never does.

Fortran isn't good enough at simulations. Interfaces, as Geoffrey James has said, should follow the principle of least astonishment. And what happens to the company during fundraising, growth will slow. I see someone laugh as they read a draft of an essay. The random college kid you talk to investors your m. 7% is the right amount of stock to give him. In the past this has not been a 100% indicator of success if only anything were but much better than random. How do you do? But that test is not as simple as it sounds.11 Understanding all the implications of what was said to them, they had the luxury of curiosity they rediscovered what we call the classics. And open and good. As usual, by Demo Day about half the startups were doing something significantly different than they started with.

Notes

Selina Tobaccowala stopped to think about, and the cost of writing software. This is an acceptable excuse, but they seem like I overstated the case. We Getting a Divorce? The company may not be led by a central authority according to certain somewhat depressing rules many of the reasons startups are competitive like running, not the primary cause.

I know it's a significant number. They thought I was writing this.

The variation in productivity is the new top story. The Roman commander specifically ordered that he could accept it.

The real decline seems to them.

I was living in a series. There are titles between associate and partner, which can vary a lot of time on, cook up a solution, and I bicycled to University Ave in Palo Alto, but have no idea whether this happens it will seem dumb in 100 years ago. Startups that don't scale is to get users to observe—e. We didn't know ourselves which VC firms.

And the reason this subject is so contentious is that they can get cheap plane tickets, but suburbs are so intellectually dishonest in that so many trade publications nominally have a connection with Aristotle, but Joshua Schachter tells me it was not just on the cover story of Business Week, 31 Jan 2005.

Even if the value of their core values is Don't be evil, they could not have gotten away with dropping Java in the Neolithic period. In my current filter, dick has a similar logic, one could argue that the worm might have done all they could imagine needing in their experiences came not with the earlier stage startups, who've already made the decision. There need to, so they'll understand how lucky they are within any given time I know of no counterexamples, though, so they will fund you one day is the way we pitch startup school was that they use the name of a large chunk of this essay talks about the size of the funds we raised was difficult, and that there's no lower bound to its precision. In the early adopters.

It did not help, the higher the walls become. So what ends up happening is that the highest returns, it's easy for small children, with the buyer's picture on the relative weights?

It's a strange feeling of being absorbed by the financial controls of World War II had disappeared in a startup to an associate if you know about a related phenomenon: he found it easier to sell hardware without trying to capture the service revenue as well. Like the Aeneid, Paradise Lost is a cause.

In the thirties his support of the current edition, which are a small amount of stock the VCs should be. Give the founders of failing startups would even be symbiotic, because sometimes artists unconsciously use tricks by imitating art that does.

So much better than Jessica. So it is generally the common stock holders who take the hit.

Thanks to Ming-Hay Luk of the Berkeley CSUA, Paul Kedrosky, Peter Eng, Ed Dumbill, and Chris Dixon for smelling so good.

[ethanalter]

Rooney Mara on the challenges of 'Una,' the controversy of 'Pan,' and the bathroom-less 'Mary Magdalene' (plus exclusive 'Una' scene)

With Lisbeth Salander officially in her rear-view, Rooney Mara has been exploring a diverse range of roles and films. Earlier this year, the actress co-starred in the Sundance favorite, A Ghost Story, as the lover of the titular spirit (Casey Affleck) who expresses her grief at his loss in an epic, extended sequence of pie consumption. And Friday brings the release of Una, an adaptation of the acclaimed 2005 play Blackbird, which originally played the film festival circuit in 2016. As a self-professed fan of the play, Mara actively pursued the opportunity to headline the movie version as the title character — a childhood sexual abuse survivor who, as an adult, tracks down the man, Ray (Ben Mendelsohn), who took advantage of her… and who she still has feelings for. Watch an exclusive clip from Una above and read Yahoo Entertainment’s interview with Mara about her experience navigating this difficult emotional terrain, why she still hasn’t seen the film, and being at the center of a whitewashing controversy over her role as Tiger Lily in Pan.

Yahoo Entertainment: What discussions did you have with Una director Benedict Andrews about how the play, and your performance, could look onscreen? Rooney Mara: I was a huge fan of the play, and always wanted to do it as a play. But I’m also intrigued by ideas that seem like they could go horribly wrong, so when I heard Benedict was doing it as a film, I was like, “How is that possible?” [Laughs] I met with him, and he knew the material so well and he’s obviously such an accomplished theater director, I thought it would be safe with him. The plays has an element of being stuck, and it’s very uncomfortable for everyone. You can’t look away, you can’t go anywhere and you don’t get a break from it. The way Benedict set the film up, we didn’t shoot it in order, but it was Ben and us most of the time. It was very intense, very intimate, and that made it really hard when other people, like Riz [Ahmed, who has a supporting role in the film], came in. Ben and I were our own little thing, and it was great that we got to start in that really intense space.

One visual element I noticed onscreen is that certain settings — like the warehouse where much of the movie takes place — are almost treated as a stage and the other characters in that environment take on the role of a theatrical audience, trying to observe the characters’ private drama. That’s interesting; I never thought of it like that. Those were interesting days in that warehouse. I was definitely the person on set saying, “The play has it like this, and you cut that line out!” There’s one scene where Ben and I are in the bathroom together, and we didn’t like the way it was written. On the way to set, we read through that scene in the play and it was great be like, “This is what it feels like to do [the play].” So we brought some of that into the scene, and rewrote it on the day. It was good to try and make the film its own thing.

Did you have any contact with Ruby Stokes, who plays the younger Una in flashbacks, to coordinate the character’s arc? She was there for a few of the rehearsal days, and I saw tons of video of her. I also worked with the dialect coach to match her voice. We couldn’t have a kid change her voice to match whatever dialect I wanted to do! But we didn’t have that much interaction other than that; there just wasn’t the time on this film. She also recorded all of my lines, so I had her voice in my head and I spent all day listening to it. I felt very close to her.

Rooney Mara in Una (Photo: Madman Entertainment)

Another recurring visual motif is the scene of young Una waiting for Ray to return. All these years later, as an adult, she’s never really left that room. That’s the thing I felt most strongly about; this is someone who has let this thing define every aspect of her life, and she’s totally stuck. It’s informed every aspect of her life: her relationship with her mom feels very stunted, her relationship with sex and men and constantly seeking that out. Those were sort of the most important things to me. And I hope that, at the end of the movie, she’s sort of had the realization that she’s a whole person. That she thinks, “This thing that happened is part of me, but it doesn’t have to define me.”

The movie explores this uncomfortable territory of a victim who insists she’s not a victim. Did you think of her as a victim in your portrayal? Of course. She was 12 years old, so absolutely. But I think probably a lot of victims don’t consider themselves victims. That’s a huge part of it psychologically — you feel like it was your fault, and you take blame for it. That’s a huge part of it. I think most victims can relate to that feeling, that they’re not victims. The way I felt it, deep down, was that she thought it was love and all these people convinced her, “No, you were abused.” That’s why she has to go to Ray. She has to know for herself if it was love or if those people were right. So I didn’t ever come at it from Rooney’s judgment; I was always coming at it from Una’s perspective.

What’s been your experience when you’ve watched the film with audiences? I haven’t had that much experience [with that], but I think people have very mixed reactions to it, as they should with such polarizing material. The thing that I took away from the play anyway — I haven’t seen the film — was the conflict of watching it. There’s a part of me that wanted it to be love and wanting Una and Ray, as adults, to be together. But then also feeling like, “No, this is wrong. He’s a horrible person.” I feel so conflicted about it, but I also felt for Ray. May other people feel that, too. I don’t know.

Do you plan to watch the film? I would like to see it at some point, yeah. Last year, when I could have seen it, I wasn’t in the headspace where I wanted to. I was about to go off and work, and I just couldn’t handle seeing it. I haven’t had the opportunity since then.

Ed Skrein recently earned applause for dropping out of the Hellboy reboot after accusations of whitewashing. You had our own experience with that controversy after being cast as Tiger Lily in Pan, a character who has frequently been depicted as Native American in most adaptations. I want to clarify, because people always say this: I wasn’t cast in a Native American role. I would never do that. In the original book, it’s the “Piccaninny tribe,” and what Joe [Wright, the director of Pan] was trying to do was make them native to Neverland. I was a fan of Joe’s and wanted to work with him, and when he talked about it to me, I was like, “Yeah, that sounds nice.” I totally agree that, whether or not she was Native American in the original book, that’s the way she been depicted, and people love [that version] of the character. So yes, they should have used a Native American for that role or one of the four leads should have been something other than blond-haired and blue-eyed. In retrospect, I don’t want to be on that side of the conversation, so I think it’s great that [Skrein] did that.

Is that something you can see yourself doing in the future if a similar situation availed itself to you?Yeah, definitely.

Watch the Pan trailer below:

You recently finished shooting Mary Magdalene with Garth Davis and Joaquin Phoenix What was that experience like? It was a long shoot, or felt like a long shoot anyway. We were in a foreign country and out in the mountains all day — no bathrooms, no nothing — with Jesus and the disciples. You’re just like, “Where am I? What’s happening?” It was really challenging, and also really beautiful experience. I don’t know what the film will be. It’s very feminist, I hope. It felt like that when we were making it, so I hope that comes through. It also doesn’t feel like a religious film to me. It’s hopefully a spiritual film, but we didn’t make a religious film, per se.

Do you anticipate any controversy when the film opens? It won’t be unlike Una in that way — both films are going to provoke a reaction. Yeah, I am, but I’m not scared of it. That’s a debate that I’m happy to be a part of, as opposed to the other one we were just talking about. I don’t want to be on the wrong side of that debate, but I feel like with this it’s different. It’ll be good controversy. Especially a subject as controversial as religion that is so engrained in every part of society.

Una is currently playing in limited theatrical release in New York and opens in Los Angeles on Oct. 13. Mary Magdalene is slated to open on March 30, 2018.

  Watch the Una trailer:

Read more from Yahoo Entertainment:

Rooney Mara wanted to return for Dragon Tattoo sequel, ‘but they decided to do a different thing’

A Ghost Story director says it’s OK to laugh at Rooney Mara’s pie binge

Claire Foy to replace Rooney Mara in Dragon Tattoo sequel

[hak-7]

TAUGHT TO DO EVIL Contained In A Language Enviorment If you would do some research to find out how the Nation of Islam began that's led by Minister Farrakhan now, you would have to come across the name Fard, spelled Fard but pronounced Farad, Fard. Fard was not a black, an African American or a Negro as we once called our self. We believe now that he was an Asiatic from what is now called Pakistan, but when he came to America it was not called Pakistan because he came before 1947, it was just India. And we also believed that he had bad experiences in America because you know many Indians or Asians are also black, colored, literally black, he was not, he was light brown skinned person. But even a light brown skin person may have some bad experiences or might have had some bad experiences in the early 30's or late 30's or 40's or 50's and even the 60's, in some parts of America, or in some circumstances. And we believe that the experiences, the bad experiences that this person had perhaps going all the way back to his country, India, Muslim India, Muslim India when Muslim India was under Britain, Great Britain or England, the English people; however, when he saw our condition as blacks in America he sympathized with us. And I believe he was motivated by anger too, anger, a bit of anger but I do believe that the man who brought the concept of the Nation of Islam to the ghetto of Detroit finally to the vast areas of Chicago, then to Milwaukee, this man Fard he actually went to these cities and preached in these cities and got my father, Elijah Muhammed started, showed him how to do it, how to preach the new message and how to organize the people. Black Muslim and also called the Nation of Islam I believe that he sympathized with us and wanted to see a change for our life, a change for the better, but I think he wanted to do something that was even more important to him or more valuable for him, that is use us to speak to white America, the white world maybe and also to speak to the Islamic world, to speak to the Islamic world through us. Through the new African American that he, himself was creating, called Black Muslim and also called the Nation of Islam. I believe this man got great help from great minds in psychology, in history, I don't think he himself was that educated formally. And I'm not speaking without some circumstances that I'm looking at or some fact that convinces me that he was not that formally educated. But definitely a special person with special mind, committed person. This man was successful in creating a myth and a language environment that would attract and hold African American people who were dissatisfied with their life in America and had no faith in the future, in their future that one day they would have a comfortable place in American society, they didn't believe that. My mother didn't believe that, my father didn't believe that and those who joined them didn't believe that. They believed that America didn't want them, white America didn't want them and we would never have acceptance here. There would always be a hypocritical acceptance and not a real acceptance, that's what they believed. And this man was after only them, he wasn't looking for anybody else he was looking for only the dissatisfied African Americans to join him. And how do I know that? He told my father he said, "don't try to get the educated blacks" said "get those without education" said "don't try to get those that are satisfied to work with the white man and live with the white man" said "get those who are dissatisfied who think they can't work with the white man and live peacefully with the white man". So he told him who to look for and he called the so-called talented tenth Dubois and the educated African Americans, he called them the blood suckers of the poor in the black community. He said that they were really supporting and working for the real blood suckers that he called the white race, the real blood suckers of the black people, the poor black people. So he saw the educated black like Dubois who believed that we could one day be accepted in the system, that the law indicated and the philosophy of this land indicated that we would one day be accepted. That democracy, Christianity, true Christianity, true democracy was more powerful than hate racism, segregation, white supremacy and that one day we would be accepted, which was the truth, it turned out to be that way. We saw the beauty of America and American people overcome the ugliness of America and the American people and we do have that comfort now as African American citizens of the United States. But the dissatisfied back there in the 30's and the 40's and the 50's and maybe even 60's and 70's did not believe that and we still have some dissatisfied inspite of all the good circumstances that we see for us to have a good life in America. And we still have some dissatisfied African Americans that don't believe that this is real, that this is hypocritical, that we are not really accepted or wanted. And the Hon. Elijah Muhammed use to often say that nobody wants you but G-d, he use to tell us that. Nation of Islam a language environment So we were put in a contained environment, a language environment, a language environment and I'm speaking on this campus and I'm sure that the department of philosophy and well science, biology whatever, you understand what I'm saying; perhaps better than some of our own followers, our own members of our organization or our movement the MAS, the Muslim American Society that I am a leader of and belong to, you perhaps understand what I'm saying what Fard did as I'm sharing it with you better than even some of our Imams, I believe. Two things can't occupy the same space at the same time There's a saying in physics that I learned "no two things can occupy the same space at the same time", well I don't know if that's true or not because I believe that my consciousness, my spirit, my soul whatever it is, I believe its occupying the space that my body is in at the same time. Maybe no two physical things can occupy the same space at the same time. But there are many sayings that we heard that words make people, words shape people and that's exactly what Mr. Fard believed and he was counting on. That if he can create a new language environment that he could make a new people with a new mind, a new people. New sensitivities, a new people. And that's exactly what he did. Fard called us Asiatic He made a new people and he called us black, he called us Asiatic. Now why Asiatics? Why did he call us Asiatics? He wasn't the first to call us Asiatics. In fact I don't think any of the, I would say the very special features of his ideology or his concept of society for us were originated by him. I think he saw something somewhere and he just used it. Noble Drew Ali, Moorish American Science Temple So when he called us Asiatics I believe he was studying the movement called the Moorish American Science Temple movement, it was headed by a man named Drew Ali, Noble, they called him Noble Drew Ali and he claimed also Islam as did Fard the teacher of my father. He claimed Islam too and he had his members the followers believing that they were Muslims and that their Religion was Islam. But like the Nation of Islam under the Hon. Elijah Muhammed the Religion was far from being the Religion of Muslims in this world, throughout the world. It was not at all, it was much, much different from what is Islam in the world. It resembled something perhaps that's, in the Trinitarian idea more than it resembled Islam. The idea father, son and holy ghost the Trinity, perhaps resembles that more than it did anything, than it did Islam, the idea of G-d in Islam. But it didn't even suit that concept, the Trinitarian idea in Christianity because it took the spiritual idea and weakened it and made it of no effect on our lives at all. We were taught that materialism was everything and that even G-d never existed until there was material things, a material thing and that He, Himself, G-d, Himself cannot exist outside of a material body and that there is no resurrection or life after death. The only resurrection is a mental resurrection that takes place on earth in this life, this physical life, biological, on this life. So this does not resemble any of the great Religions, this was a new thing perhaps, somewhat inspired by some things of ancient times, that's in ancient times from ancient times. And resembling maybe pantheism a little bit and resembling also the communist idea of materialism, dialectic materialism. And I do know that the aim was to create a language environment that would be a strong magnetism, a strong magnetic force that we just couldn't resist if we were not happy as Americans. That we would want to be this new black that this language environment would give birth to. And another thing I do know, that the teacher, the one who conceived this idea, and I believe he had help outside, I said I don't think he was formally educated that much, but obviously a great mind, a very brilliant, great mind. Something else we have to look at is that he, Mr. Fard, teacher of my father, he felt that we needed our egos pumped up, that we had our egos deflated by the presence of the great white world and limitation on our life. Education denied access to good education in the 30's, 40's and many other things that we just couldn't have, couldn't share, couldn't even think that we would could share many of us. And he wanted to make us think bigger than that, bigger than that small mind that we had intimated by the great white world and the advancements of the white man, he wanted us to think bigger, get a, have a bigger picture of our self. So he exaggerated our own reality, he exaggerated our own ability, he said even that the black man is god, we have potential to be god in us. And he said that history has been falsified, that one time you had a great history, you were the superiors, you were the masters of the world etc, and many of our Afro-centric people they tried to document that, you know. So he wasn't saying something that educated blacks wouldn't also accept a lie. But what, something else is very important, is that he was not himself really interested in that, but he knew it would hold us, it would catch us from the white world and it would hold us long enough for us to come into an independent mind. Where we think independently and make independent choices and are not giving ourselves to non blacks or African Americans to be shaped and formed by them or their influences. So he wanted to take us away from all these other influences that made and influence how we are formed and shaped or how we would be developed. And his belief was that if he could bring us to that position of independence that we would then become our own Muslim. And his greatest desire was that we would one day become our own Muslim and by that I mean we would not be under the influence of other Muslims. He told my father, he said "the worst thing you could do is let Indians, Pakistanis", they wasn't called Pakistanis he said "Indian to let Indian Muslims come in". Because Indian Muslims were over here before Fard, they were over here introducing Islam into the African American community before 1930. Elijah Muhammed told not to teach the Qur'an So he was afraid of that and he told my father he said "never accept that they teach you, you teach your own people". He was making a new people, a new Muslim, an independent Muslim. He also wanted that we study the Qur'an, but he told my father "don't you teach them the Qur'an", our Holy book or our Bible is the Qur'an. He said "don't you teach them the Qur'an." He said "when the time come your children will learn the Qur'an" and he said "they will teach you". He said "they can get it fast brother", I'm quoting my father, he said "they can get it, that young minds they will be able to get it fast brother". So what did my father teach if he didn't teach the Qur'an and claiming to be Muslims? He taught from the Bible. Mr Fard told my father, he said "study how the black preachers get and hold their congregation" he told him go and visit the church, sit in the church and observe them. Well he didn't have to tell my father that really because my father was a Christian before he was introduced to Fard's idea. Clara Muhammed strong faith And my mother was a good Christian lady, I'm not saying my father was a bad Christian but he was just not a church goer, my mother was a good Christian lady she sang in the choir, she loved to sing the spirituals, she never stopped singing those spirituals. As a child I heard my mother singing Christian spirituals, she would just change the language, if the language said Jesus she would change it to Fard, our savior Fard. She would just change the language a little bit and she lit the house up and it was so beautiful, I loved to hear her sing, she would wake me up in the morning sometime, she'd be in the kitchen working and she's singing. She sang in the choir of her church before she accepted the teachings of Fard, the teacher of her husband and my father Elijah Muhammed, Elijah Poole Muhammed. Father Divine So there was a man in Detroit at that time who was a preacher and a powerful one, he was called Father Divine and he too was introducing the black man in a powerful picture by introducing himself as Father divine. And he suggested to his congregation without saying it openly that much, that he was Jesus Christ, father divine black preacher of Detroit. And father divine for those who know something about his history, we know that he eventually had a white wife, he had a black wife and he had a white wife. Fard said black father, white mother And Fard he gave us something similar he said that the god, himself was the son of a black man, black skinned black man and his mother was a white woman. So he mixed the two, white and black while teaching us that the whites are inherently evil and they are the devil race on the planet earth and created artificially by some black scientist whose name was yakub. Now we come to learn as we begin to get away from the old teachings and be influenced by the Qur'an we come to learn that Yakub is the Qur'an name for Jacob, the Prophet Jacob whose revered in Islam, peace be upon him along with all the other Prophets. Qur'an 21.72; Jacob a righteous Prophet "And We bestowed on him Isaac and as an additional gift (a grandson) Jacob and We made righteous men of every one (of them)." So here is a black man called Yakub, the name of the Prophet and he was suppose to been a scientist who studied the genes of the black man and found some way to graft the black, out of the black man, a white man by eliminating the pigmentation, the strong pigmentation working with the weaker pigmentation he finally created a white race. And he created them to be a devil race. Grafting didn't make devil, they had to be taught evil But strangely that grafting, that biological work did not make them devils and that's what many of the ministers didn't know, many of the ministers working for the Hon. Elijah Muhammed they didn't catch that, but I caught it. He said they had to teach them after grafting them they had to teach them to lie, steal and master the black people, they had to teach them, why they had to teach them if they were already devils by nature or if they were already devils because of this genetic grafting, this grafting them out of the genes of the black man? So if something that will attract the uneducated and that's another reason why I believe Mr. Fard didn't want my father bringing in educated, because this is ridiculous, its too many contradictions in this stuff, this is nothing but a joke, you know. Many of them would have ridiculed it although you'd be surprise, it attracted some PhD's to join it and I mean they were serious in supporting that idea and believing it to be fact or reality. But for me what disturbed me was that a black man created evil and then charged the white man with it, even when I was a teenager I couldn't understand that. I said well "I shouldn't like Yakub, the black man that made the devil, I shouldn't like him", I said "he's the one that started all this evil" you know. So I was having serious problems understanding the teaching of the Nation of Islam, even while I was just about 13 yrs, I think about thirteen it started. But I believed in my father's sincerity, I know my father was sincere, I believe in his sincerity, I knew my mother was sincere. I believed in their sincerity and I thought that perhaps his teacher, Fard was sincere. And G-d blessed me to study and study it and finally come to the conclusion that this man Fard created this thing as a strategy to be a temporary language environment to hold black, uneducated blacks, naive blacks when it comes to what the world is and how its made and everything, what mankind is; very naive, uneducated so, not knowing hardly what the next state is, most of us didn't even move out of our neighborhood, we lived and died in about a five mile radius, uneducated poor blacks. So we didn't know anything, he could have told us anything about the world. So Mr. Fard told my father he said "you were taken from your own land in Mecca, the streets are paved with gold" that's what he told him. And when I went there in 67" for Hajj I found it with sand and rocks I couldn't hardly find pavement, you know any pavement to walk on. But we believed it because we didn't, how could we know, we didn't know anything about the world, we didn't know anything about the next town hardly, most of us who joined the nation of Islam. Nation of Islam a strategy to come into true Islam So I do believe that, that was only a strategy, the myth and everything was just a strategy to hold discontented blacks long enough to get them to come into an independent mind where they believe in themselves and they believe they can make judgments and trust their own judgments. And then later they would start to study the Qur'an and some of them would be educated because he didn't say don't appreciate education. He said appreciate education, appreciate science, said become civil engineers, this is the writings from Fard, he said become civil engineers, mechanical engineers, he told us that its in his own handwriting. So he didn't want us to remain ignorant, but he wanted us to be contained in that very peculiar language environment and become educated under our own schools, he said don't go to the devil schools, meaning the white man schools, have your own schools. So we did, I'm a product of elementary school and high school Nation of Islam, built by my father but the blue print for it was given to him by this Indian, Asiatic who called himself an Asiatic. Imam W.D. Mohammed (raa)THE MYSTERY OF CHRIST REVEALED PART 3 The effort from Genesis to Revelation is to establish the true identity of human life. The true identity of human life is not flesh and blood, but it is a combination of two great forces: the force of moral excellence and the force of intelligence, and this excellence is represented in two main figures. One is the Christ figure, who represents righteousness. You might say, "But Christ represents the rational knowledge too." Yes, you are right — but for moral and spiritual excellence. Christ never told his people to walk by the light of human rationale. He never told them to use reason. He used reason, but that was just to bring the people to faith. Jesus told his people to follow righteous, instinctive perception. What do we mean by instinct? We mean natural or innate motivation. Jesus told them to just make their mind and heart right. To have faith in Almighty God, and not to think about what they were going to say. A rationally guided man thinks about what he is going to say. Jesus sent his disciples out and told them to "Think not, (take not thought) as to what you are going to say; the Holy Ghost will speak through you." I am not using the exact words, but I am giving you the exact meaning. Jesus told his disciples to take no thought as to what you are going to say, just go out there and let it come out instinctively. He was telling them to use what we call instinctive perception or instinctive expression. What is its power? For the God fearing, its power is righteousness. His followers were to trust righteousness, and those who had faith in Jesus, they were saved. Not faith in the Jesus of flesh and blood, but faith in the Jesus of righteousness. Jesus established himself in righteous conscience, and whoever had faith in righteous conscience, they had the power of that faith working for their salvation. The human being comes into the world naturally being motivated by fear and having respect for a superior being. He wants to become better and to improve upon his morals. He is ashamed of his sin, and he wants to please his God. This is a natural human being. This power in the human being drives him to higher and higher degrees of moral excellence, and to more and more obedience to God. It is Jesus, the Christ, that represents this kind of movement in all human beings. You might say, "Well doesn't Jesus have a nature?" Of course he does. He has a nature, he has substance, and he is a person. These arguments went on for over three centuries. Since we have lost the knowledge, we have to go back to this same argument. We are not supposed to worship the person, and we are not to worship his nature or his substance. Just what is his substance? His substance is knowledge. What nature brought him into that knowledge? It was the love for righteousness and obedience to God: complete and willing devotion of a heart innocent and sensitive to any and all suffering person. We are not to worship Jesus in any of his identities even though we identify him as a flesh person, as a knowledge body, and as a motivation. Jesus was motivated, and it was this motivation that made up his nature. You should know that whatever motivates you designs your nature. If you are motivated by materialism, you will become materialistic in your nature. Christ is the love for righteousness and an undying devotion to God, righteousness and obedience to God. Didn't Jesus demonstrate that in a most excellent way. He never became hypocritical and he never sympathized with any wrongdoers even though they were his own people. In fact, he called his own people a group of hypocrites and vipers But Jesus himself, never lost his righteousness and obedience to God. When he fasted for 40 days and Satan came to tempt him, he remained steadfast and loyal to God. He was not like some of these old mystics that get high on spiritualism and fall in the trap of Satan. Jesus said, "Who do you say I, the Son of Man, am?" "Son" in the Bible simply means a follower. Where do we have proof of that? The Bible says, "Those who follow God in the spirit are the sons of God." It didn't say that those who had an immaculate flesh conception are the sons of God. It says that, those who follow in the spirit are the sons of God, and those who rebel against God in the spirit are not His sons or His followers. In the Book of Chronicles, there is a distinction made between a physical son and a follower. In religion, the physical son doesn't have any inheritance. The inheritance or position in the religion comes to the one who inherits the knowledge and has the good faith and the good morals to follow and obey that knowledge. To be continuedON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN The Kingdom What is "the Kingdom?” We don't mean a kingdom in physical terms. We mean a kingdom in abstract terms, a kingdom in the terms of knowledge, a kingdom in the terms of principles and ideas that we can apply to our lives to manifest a material kingdom. Prophet Muhammad didn't just teach the people to be sanctified, to get "the Holy Ghost." He taught the people to organize their individual lives, to organize their home life, to organize their community life. Bring heaven down to earth and live on earth the order that God has established in heaven. What order has God established in heaven? He has established a sun that is the "Big Daddy" over the planets, and the earth is one of those planets. He has established the moon to reflect the light of that sun when the sun is out of my sight. And He's established stars to light the way even when the moon is in eclipse or perhaps out of sight for a night. So, we find three symbols of light in the heavens and they all agree with each other. One rules over me and reflects its rule in another when it's not present. "...On Earth As It Is In Heaven..." This is telling us that we have to have on earth a likeness of that rule. We have pure revelation from God that is the light for the world. Then we have a Prophet who reflects (demonstrates) that light to us in our lives. He serves as a moon to us. Then we have learned people who follow that Prophet. They are a distance away, they are not as close to the revelation as the Prophets, but they are saints that light the world of darkness and give us some light even though the sun and moon aren't showing right before our face.That's what it's telling us. We have to order our lives and we have to accept revelation as the rule in our lives. We have to accept the Prophet as the one who demonstrates or reflects that life to us. We have to accept the learned men and women in religion as light in the darkness for us when we don't see revelation or when we don't see the Prophet. Leadership Is A Must Now, that kingdom is not to stay up in the sky. The Book (Bible) says that it has to come down to earth: "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." Anybody that's telling you that you're not supposed to have a leader or that you're not supposed to have leadership is teaching you against the Bible and they're teaching you against Jesus. He said that this world down here has to come under leadership. It has to come under revelation, it has to come under a Prophet, and it has to come under the learned people of religion. That's what the scripture is telling us. We have to have leadership and that leadership has to have more concern for us than just a spiritual concern that has nothing to do with anything but spiritual emotionalism. They have to have concern for what our actions are doing in this world. Somebody has to restrain me if I'm crazy, if I'm a drunkard, and if I'm a danger to the society. As long as you look to the police to do that, you're going to have more and more police in your life. If you want peace in your life, start doing that for yourself and there will not be a need for all these police. You ask, "Do you mean take the law into my own hands?" Yes! Take the law to rule your ownself into your own hands! Rule your ownself as yourself should rule and there won't be a cause for other people to be coming into your life and interfering with that rule. We have to do this for our individual selves, we have to do this for our families, we have to do this for our community. Pretty soon, that will spread in the whole city and the police will become "our" police and the Mayor will become "our" Mayor. But as long as we don't have any charge over our own life, the police will remain "their" police and the Mayor will be "their Mayor. Imam W.D. Mohammed (raa)

[courage-a-word-of-justice]

Asobi Asobase 1 | Planet With 1 | Hanebado! 2 | Holmes of Kyoto 1 | Phantom in the Twilight 1

Asobi Asobase 1

These girls…have no noses? Gwah?!

…They really went in on the “purity” themes, with the OP and the flowers, didn’t they? It gives off a “sugar, spice and everything nice” vibe.

I’ve had my eyebrow furrowed in disinterest here. The artstyle not only very nearly lacks noses, but Olivia (I think that was the girl’s name from promo material) has such a disgustingly smug face that I can’t laugh at it. It seems mean-spirited and not fun at all.

My gosh, bob girl has such a sadistic streak…

These faces are clearly trying to make me laugh, but all I get for them is a “You tried” feeling. Sorry, must be the yuri vibes. Plus the extra boob jiggle which you really could’ve done without.

You can tell that Olivia wasn’t speaking a lick of sense there. The subbers must’ve had fun trying to convert it to English. *sigh* If only I were part of that team, I’d be having more fun with it than I am just watching it…I’m clearly not having fun here, obviously.

The pigtailed girl stealing the ham made me laugh, but only in a very weak way.

This pen thing? C’mon, they have that in Western-type societies like mine too, y’know.

The artstyle is like Nichijou a few times. Lemme guess, Nichijou isn’t for me…

Asobihito (asobibito…?) =/= Pleasure Seekers. The former translates literally to “playing people”, i.e. “people who play”. “Pleasure seeker” is that in a more general sense…then again, English doesn’t have an equivalent term that doesn’t vaguely sound like someone’s taking advantage of other people.

The sensei finally got me to laugh properly! But hey, it’s just because she’s so dang perky when she shouldn’t be…

The bob girl says “eigo kenkyuu kai” (English study club), but then Honda (pigtails) goes “Eiken?”, which from the translation I’d presume is short for “eigo (no) shiken” (English test).

Ohmygosh, they unabashedly put a Louis Vuitton suitcase into this show! How did they get away with that??? *stifles laughter*

I feel like these girls are trying to just be mean to each other more often than not. Catfights aren’t fun, yo.

The SFX and the visuals make this very clear this is a show for boys. Boys who like to fantasise about girls having fun like this.

Oh dear…did they just…they did! (flat tone) What. *face furrowed in worry, shakes head* A Detective Conan parody…

This comedy is probably a tad too…Western…for my liking…

Uh…I don’t know what to think about that ED…I feel like most of the budget went into the ED, for some reason.

Nihon no Asobi wo Asobase means “Let’s Play Japanese Games!”. It has no “please” involved whatsoever. Also…is that a poop emoji with hands and feet in the corner? (LOL)

Okay, you got me show. You made me laugh a grand total of…twice. That’s a terrible track record, y’know! Also, the real daruma otoshi is like this.

Well, that last segment made me feel like I was watching Potter Puppet Pals. Only it was for an anime I didn’t really care about and it wasn’t particularly funny after the novelty and creativity of it all wore off (and that wore off very fast!). That’s a drop. Also, can we not with the boob jokes???

Planet With 1

Hmm…a low ranker due to Ume potentially being pulled…I wonder how this’ll go.

Thank you for that, show!!! Such a cool, flashy opening!

I keep reading that the boy’s name is Ginko in first episode impressions, but Ginko, according to the ANN spotlight I read, was the maid girl. This boy is Souya. Okay, got it.

That’s one biiiiiiiiig cat, man…

Ohmygosh, I’m going to run out of air from how much I’m laughing! The cat’s eating this cabbage raw! What the heck??? (LOLOLOL)

Youhei Suzuki? Why does that name seem familiar…?

If you’ve been around anime long enough, you’ll get megane (glasses) =/= megami (goddess). Plus, what is it with men and eating lots of meat? Does eating meat affirm one’s masculinity or something?

Is it just me, or am I getting Star Driver vibes from this show? There was a guy in the OP who looked like Souya’s dad, y’know.

I think Souya was doing trigonometry (you can see cos theta on the board). I don’t envy him there.

It’s the kanji for “peace”, but it’s missing a stroke…that’s why it’s spelt “peas” and not “peace”.

There seems to be quite a bit of CGI in this show, huh?

Was that…Ume?! Yes!!!!!!!

Isn’t Sensei trying to peek up the skirt from the girl from Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer? That’s the second pervert today…ick.

Sensei doesn’t even move his mouth??!!!!!!!!!! (LOL)

Benika is the redhead. Beni = crimson, so that should be no trouble at all.

That guy’s book appears to be upside down…? Is it possible he could read a book like that, if he’s constantly holding it that way?

It’s amazing how much anime protagonists can do while pretending to be in the toilet…

Torai in a tiger mecha. I see, I see…

LOL, more ingestion business…just like Hisone and Masotan.

…Why is the protagonist’s motivation meat, of all the things?

Yay, it really was Ume! Thank you, Planet With! Now I’m definitely staying! Even if Ume gets dropped afterwards, there’s enough to keep me here otherwise such as how it feels pleasantly old-school while putting a new spin on a bunch of things, such as how Souya – who should be the bad guy in any other story – is the good guy here.

Who’s the man behind the old guy in the ED? That shadow thing is a dog, by the way - I saw it in the ANN spotlight.

Hanebado 2

It’s all an uphill climb…or a slip into the depths…for Hanebado right now.

There’s a box where the hyphen should’ve been…

To quote Google, a shutout is an N. American term: “a play, game, or inning in which the opposition is prevented from scoring.”

Nagisa’s strength appears to be the smash. It seems probably enough, considering her body type doesn’t seem to be made for speed. (…What? Why are you looking at me weirdly? Analysing these guys is just like analysing fighters in an RPG or something.)

Why are all these girls driven by only the sport or the guys??? People, girls need varied motivations.

The elder Isehara? There are two? Are they twins?

Comedic violence against an almost-pervert…it’s getting to the point where I’m getting a bit tired of that in anime…

Just because people have talent doesn’t necessarily mean that they like doing what they’re good at, Elena…

So Isehara (one of them) is in blue. Hopefully I remember that.

I didn’t really understand why Yu was with these girls…and then something came out of one of their mouths that made me realise these were quitters from the badminton team last episode.

There was something really silly about how Yu chucked the packet and didn’t get it in. She’s not really made for badminton smashes, is she?

Interesting use of a chalk style for a flashback.

Tachibana is clearly trash talking Nagisa to get on her nerves. It’ll mess up her judgement…hmm. Machiavellian tactics. I see.

Cross court drive. Just remember this is a link about squash, so substitute out “ball” for “shuttlecock”.

Just for reference, here’s a guide to a jump smash. It’s a difficult offensive move, so it’s perfect for Nagisa, who works hard to achieve her level of skill.

The picture of the embarrased guy (one of the ED photos) is pretty funny. He’s kind of cute, to boot, haha. Update: I’m not sure if that’s Nagisa or one of the boys...if it was Nagisa...oops.

The ED’s artstyle reminds me of Grimgar. That’s a compliment.

The feather imagery is because hane can mean “feather” or “wing”.

Holmes of Kyoto 1

This one could either be good…or bad like a bunch of other seasonals. Let’s find out…

They’re a bit heavy-handed with the “tell, don’t show”, but that flashback was integrated well.

The actual Holmes is known for occasionally trying to get Watson to try and do some deducing of his own (such as how there was a character early on who’d been overseas – I think he was in a war or something - and Watson was able to deduce that from looking at him, that was how he was able to introduce himself as a doctor IIRC), so having Yagashira (I think that was his name from the promo material) try to get Aoi to look at antiques is a good analogy. Detective Conan also had some of those moments, so this almost feels nostalgic…Update: The thing I was alluding to was how Holmes deduced Watson had been to “the Afghanistan” (sic) in A Study in Scarlet, but that doesn’t match what I’m thinking of.

Welp, this certainly ain’t a show where you’re meant to deduce it along with the detective. They didn’t even have the man mention to the audience he’d come from Osaka…

Chalcanthite.

“[G]ot my goat”? They sure are making some slang out of the Kyoto dialect, huh? Update: I don’t recognise the line that Kiyotaka uses, meaning it might really be Kyoto dialect. (Just for your confirmation.)

Salt…? What is this, an exorcism?

The Japanese word for “boiled egg seasoning” seems to have the word for “salt” in it, which explains what’s going on.

Okay, lemme try and guess how Holmes got those deductions: “You’re a student at Ohki High School.” – the uniform…?/”You originally came from east Japan.” – dialect/”It’s been about 6 months since you moved to Kyoto.” - the time of acclimatisation between getting used to Kyoto or not, or maybe her clothes…?/”You came to this shop because there’s something you want appraised, but it’s not something that belongs to you.” – how she’s holding that bag and has been too hesitant to approach Holmes – if she owned it, she would be less careful with it. Either that, or he can see into the bag. Update: I originally guessed “time of acclimatisation” for the 6 months section, but switched it out before learning that was the correct answer, so I’ve got it in bold there. I did get that thing about hesitance right though, so it’s in italics.

Wait…”when you think of ‘Aoi’”…? Aoi is a type of flower, right? Update: I was right. Aoi is the Japanese name of hollyhock, and turns out there’s a festival named for it celebrated by the shrine Holmes mentions! I’m completely useless against Detective Conan cases, but I can actually guess some of this stuff! Yay me!

H-How old is Holmes…? Stab in the dark says “24”, but lessee…Okay, he’s 22. Close enough.

“Holmes doesn’t speak with an accent. I wonder where he’s from?” – Dangit, I was wondering that too. They got Kaito Ishikawa to voice him, and that guy doesn’t have a Kyoto accent (I know from listening to him when I was trying to guess the clues earlier). Lessee…he has parents who come from Tokyo?

Hakuin Ekaku…is a real dude. Update: Zenga.

Are train tickets really that expensive…?

Oh dear…have I ever seen a grandpa lust after girls of 16??? Don’t think so.

“Us Kyoto boys…are awful nasty.” – *clutches chest in mock pain* Ahhhh! My poor kokoro!

I know I’ll probably regret just watching for the bishie and the guessing game I can make out of this, but…okay, that’s another potential keeper. If it gets any worse on the guessing game front though, it might have to go into the drop pile though.

Phantom in the Twilight 1

This is the last debut before “Dude of Red: Red Guy” (or whatever Moe Sucks called Lord of Vermilion)…hopefully it’ll be good!

Is it just me or are these guys’ eyes creepy...? Also, this is not Rokuhoudou. It’s blatantly trying to be Rokuhoudou…I miss Tokitaka already…*sigh*

Peperoncino.

I like how the girl’s wearing shorts. Unfortunately, they’re those booty shorts that seem to be all the rage these days instead of something more modest, but hey, what can you do? *shrug* Shorts are comfy and easy to wear, as they say.

Okay, if blind guy isn’t a jiangshi I’m going to love this show a lot more. But seriously, if this is going to be the second coming of Anime Twilight, then I’m out of here…

There’s one dude in the OP that looks like he walked out of Joker Game…but with altered eyebrows! What the heck?!

Is it just me, or did they not sub the titlecard?

Is it just me, or is the yuri being hammered on too strongly here?

The Chinese restaurant’s sign says something…about a small lobster?

Sha Rijan…Shinyao…Oh no, don’t tell me! I’m watching a Chinese coproduction?! Well, at least the girl is mighty relatable. She only seems part Chinese.

Luke reminds me of Impey from Code:Realise. Not that it bothers me, it’s just that Van Helsing was my favourite from that.

Huh? Didn’t Shinyao say all their money was inside the luggage? Ton probably had some money on her for that taxi, but still…Update: Could be Uber or just paying by credit/debit card but they never say.

Why are these three dudes like a military squad, anyway? It’s a tad unsettling…

Two of the characters Ton’s written on the board in the ED are jiayou, which is pretty much Chinese’s equivalent to ganbaru.

Shinyao and Ton go back a long way, huh?

What’s up with the chibis? They remind me of the Winx Club or Bratz or something…or even worse, the puppet show from Asobi Asobase! Actually, no, they remind me of one of those online dress-up games more…I’m cringing, man.

Well, that seemed a little misfired but otherwise up my alley! The boys may not be as hot as I’d hoped, but still, the show is otherwise quite fabulous.

Update: Music Girls is performing pretty terribly against these other shows, so that’s on hold.

[progressivemillennial]

To Punch a Nazi, Part 2

The Heil Seen ‘Round the World 

Today, I’ll cover two speaking arrangements that Richard Spencer had during the last two years.  The first, the NPI 2016 conference, took place on November 19, 2016. NPI, of course, stands for the National Policy Institute.  The think tank based out of Montana was formed in 2005 by Spencer and is still led by him. Many of you will recognize the conference due to the viral video released by The Atlantic last year which featured multiple attendees performing the Nazi salute.  Still, the viral video did not contain the entirety of his speech, which lasted a half hour.  I wanted to know about those other 28 minutes.

In the light of those Nazi salutes, it was unsurprising that there were multiple references to Nazism and anti-Semitism.  Early in his speech, he refers to the press as the Lügenpresse, in “the original German.” He also referenced Donald Trump’s victory as “the victory of will,” a phrase that sounds an awful lot like Triumph of the Will, the 1935 German propaganda film.  In further contemplating on the media’s current role in society, he remarks, “one wonders if these people are people at all, or instead soulless golem.”  Contemporarily, when we hear the word golem, we typically think of Gollum, the character from the Lord of the Rings.  However, the golem mentioned here alludes to a magical being from Jewish folklore.  At the climax of his speech, Spencer delivers the following with both great zeal and to great applause: “that is the great struggle we are called to.  We are not meant to live in shame and weakness and disgrace.  We were not meant to beg for moral validation from some of the most despicable creatures to ever populate the planet.  We were meant to overcome, overcome all of it, because that is natural and normal for us! Because for us, as Europeans, it is only normal—again—when we are great, again.  Hail Trump!  Hail our people!  Hail victory!”  You may notice some words that translate to German fairly easily: the struggle in “the great struggle we are called to” translates to Kampf, Hail Trump translates to Heil Trump, and Hail victory—Sieg Heil.  All of these words have clear connections to Nazism.

He spoke disparagingly of other political ideologies and figures. Hillary Clinton’s coalition was made up of “mutually hostile tribes only united out of a hatred of whitey, which is to say out of a hatred of us.”  This is a keen distinction he adds at the end: they particularly hate the whitey attending that conference.  He builds on these thoughts later: ““The American left is driven by anti-white hatred full-stop.  It has no other goals, no real aspirations, nothing to look to. It is a nullity, and we have nothing in common with these people.”  The more you hear him speak, the more you come to realize that he will attempt to isolate the alt-right from any other groups.  To say that they have nothing in common with the left is silly: I found myself agreeing with some of his positions.  For example, he was anti-George W. Bush.  So was I!  He didn’t think the Iran nuclear deal was all that bad.  Neither did I!  We both disagree with American consumerism.  And, of course, I am white.  They are white.  What the color of our skin means is where Richard Spencer and I differ.

And the color of our skin is of central importance to Richard Spencer.  “America was until this past generation, a white country, designed for ourselves and our posterity. It is our creation.  It is our inheritance, and it belongs to us.”  He takes particular pride in his whiteness: “To be white is to be a striver, a crusader, an explorer, and a conqueror.  We build, we produce, we go upward.”  Moreover, “whites do, and other groups don’t.”  And if you were getting the impression that Spencer is a white supremacist, you should hear this first: “we recognize the central lie of American race relations.  We don’t exploit other groups.  We don’t gain anything from their presence.  They need us, and not the other way around.”  That sounds like someone who thinks white people are better than other people.

This conference convened a week after Election Day, and Richard Spencer had some things to say about Trump.  Depending on who you talk to, you may get the impression that Donald Trump is the final destination for the alt-right, that he is a Nazi and is in lockstep with the most extreme alt-right positions.  Conversely, in Richard Spencer’s mind, Donald Trump is merely a step towards their goals, not the destination.  As Spencer put it, “this is just the beginning.”

We’ll talk more about the future later.  For now, I’ll review Spencer’s appearance at an American Renaissance conference in early 2015.  The American Renaissance advocates for white identity and the white race.  American Renaissance was published monthly from 1990 to 2012 and has existed on the internet since 2004.  I was particularly interested in this presentation because it took place before Donald Trump even announced that he was running for the Presidency (Trump announced in June 2015).  In other words, Richard Spencer wasn’t as widely known as he is now, so his approach may have been different.

His presentation, “Why Do They Hate Us?” addressed many of the themes as his 2016 NPI speech.  In the presentation title, he explains Us thusly: “we think race is biologically real, and that it has tremendous social, cultural, and historical consequences.  More important, we have a passionate attachment to our extended family, and the cultures and civilizations that it birthed.”  The idea that race is biologically real flies in the face of what’s been accepted into mainstream culture, and into scientific culture as far as I can tell.  As for who hates these people who think race is biologically real, Spencer goes on to say that “I’m actually referring to everyone. To the vast majority of the population of the industrialized world, they hate us, and we know it.”  If he’s referring to most of the industrialized world hating white supremacy, I could see him being correct--at least explicit and obvious white supremacy, as I’m not convinced people understand or see systemic or implicit white supremacy.

And this alleged hatred of white people has led to catastrophic consequences: copious amounts of white guilt and “the total delegitimization of the white man.”  And when he says man, I have every reason to believe he means male, not white humans.  And he takes this line of thought to the nth degree: “Why do they hate us?  The fact is: our enemies are giddy imagining a world without us, as do so many whites embrace their own oblivion.”  In the four speeches I reviewed of his, every now and then, he speaks to this fatalistic idea of white genocide.  Even though globalization, fee trade agreements, immigration, changing birth rates, and other factors have led to a shrinking ratio of whites to overall population in the United States and a sense of destabilization among many white Americans, white genocide is not a thing.  I have sympathy for people whose jobs are disappearing and for people who feel like future generations of Americans will have more challenging, less prosperous lives.  In fact, I’m fairly certain that most Americans would agree pessimistically but realistically that future generations will have it worse if things stay the same.  However, that does not make white genocide fantasies reality.  Probably the best example, though, of Spencer’s allusion to white genocide follows: “white guilt is the foundational morality of this global transformation we are now experiencing, what can be called the great erasure.  It is a transformation of a world created and once dominated by Europeans into a world with many European shapes and forms: democracy, feminism, free love, and the iPhone. But a world without Europeans in it… Opposing this coming world and offering alternatives to it is the mission of our movement.”  Note that of the four shapes and forms he lists, two (feminism and free love--which one could read as women’s sexual liberation) refer to the empowerment and--to many--the equality of women.

Unlike the NPI conference, this one gave space to questions and answers, a segment which proved enlightening.  Because they show the varying mindsets and approaches of the alt-right attendees, I will provide you with two of the word-for-word questions as well as Spencer’s responses below.  Notice the contrast between the first questioner, who suggests the benefits of having a “reconciliatory” approach to talking to people who “hate” them and assuming positive intent, and Spencer’s response.

First questioner: “The title of your talk being Why Do They Hate Us, in regards to the people who clearly do hate us, to what degree do you feel they can best be approached with love? Jared Taylor told us last year at the end of his talk about how it can be very disarming to assume in your opponents that they may be trying to do what they think is best and to assume positive intent and to kind of approach it not from a negative point of view where you reject it or you mock them but to try and sort of say okay, let’s deal with that, you know, try to be reconciliatory, not because for any reason we think they do have positive intent or that they are not going to hate us anymore, but from the point of view of the opinions of people who are perhaps undecided and the majority of people at large in a way that we can show them our generosity of spirit, if you like, and they can see that we are not the things that our enemies portray us to be.”

Spencer: “Again, as I stated, I really don’t believe that if we’re just simply nicer, they’re going to like us, I don’t think that this is just some misunderstanding.  That being said, I love getting into dialectical confrontations with people who disagree with me, that’s fine.  But, I think there’s a great limit of thinking that simple generosity and niceness is going to really get us anywhere.  I think it’s more important that we learn to fight.”

Whereas the first questioner talks about generosity of spirit, Spencer talks about the importance of learning to fight.  But in what way?  Dialectically, he seems to not have problems with sparring.  Could he mean physically fighting?  At the same time, we get a different kind of Richard Spencer in his response to the third question, where he talks about needing to have a “deep respect” for other races and cultures and show them generosity.

Third questioner: “You’re talking about ‘the other’ and how basically we are ‘the other’ and that every system ideology, solution, needs ‘an other’…How do we have ‘an other?’  Is that possible since that would be ‘hatred and bigotry’ [mockingly gestures] to revive? What would be ‘the other?’  Or is that necessary or not?

Spencer: “Whites have this special capacity to become our own worst enemy.  We don’t have anyone to fight against, we wage war against ourselves. …We need to approach, in a way, other races and other cultures with a kind of generosity and a respect for their otherness.  I don’t agree with Susan Sontag, but there is without question a certain kind of idea, a germ in Western man that we want to turn the world into ourselves.  It’s a mission civilatrice.  We are the American propositional nation, ‘everyone must become a democracy.’  I think we need to have a really a new ethic where we have deep respect for African Americans.  We have deep respect for the Chinese and their civilization, that we look at them as others and we can approach them honestly and respectfully, and I think in some ways, that is something new.”

So, we see a different Richard Spencer at the end there than pretty much everywhere else so far.  In Part 3, I’ll review an interview that Spencer recently had on the David Pakman Show as well as his appearance at Texas A&M University.  If you haven’t seen Part 1, you can find it here.  Until next time...

Peace and love, Tom

[ramrodd]

Are Marxists the unsung heroes of our time? Why were Marx's ideas so gravely betrayed?

COMMENTARY

Jason M. Becker: No, they are not unsung heros, they are totalitarians. Everything they say is about acquiring power, and nothing they do reflects what they say.

Tom Wilson: As the short version, Jason M. Becker is exactly correct. I went to Vietnam on this basis and I haven't changed my mind.

The longer version is more interesting and will defeat the Joe McCarthy Conservatives on 3 November 2020 by aiming at Mars.

First of all, it is useful to understand that the American Revolution, which spawned the French Revolution, is the inspiration for Marxism as an inverse expression of the Clausewitz Paradox as an essential economic engine, that is, Newt Gingrich’s and Steve Bannon’s formulation that Politics is a continuation of Warfare and the Military-Industrial Complex. This is where Marx and Newt Gingrich, as a pointy-headed college professor engaged in political insurgecy agree.

Politics as as a continuation of warfare is a formula for violent revolution. It is a core technology of Marxism. It is not a necessary core technology of Marxism: it can be swapped out for Democratic Socialism and get something like the Free Enterprise Marxism of Vietnam. It’s a little clunky, but it seems to be working pretty well. I have a friend, another Viet vet, who has moved to Hanoi and married a young single mother and is happy as a clam.

Marxism is sort of the Jewish version of the Protestant Reformation, when the economics of Western Civilization separated into two forms of capitalism: the verticle structures of the Vatican, where wealth is consolidated and trickle-down economics is the essential economic engine of feudalism and the mix of verticle and horizontal structures of modern, market-driven processes. The Protestant Reformation more or less dupilcated the destruction of the 2nd Temple economis of Judanism, a precrusor to the Vatical as a vertical structure established to consolidate the wealth of the kingdom for the arbitrary distribution of the powers-that-be, King Solomon around 1000 BCE and the Sadducces in 70 CE, when the emerging horizontal structures of the synagogue/kibbutz economics that persists to this day, which is characterized by an organic capital cascade of the grass roots capital organism.

Marx recognized that the verticle structures of the Oligarch capitalism emerging from the Industrial Revolution repeated the same mistake Constantine made when he disbanded the horizontal features of the Praetorian Guard and shifted entirely to the verticle stuctures of the several centers of the Roman Empire. His solution was, and remains, to return society to the economic status of the Children of Moses wandering in the Wilderness where Marxist Socialism would provide all the manna from heaven each according to his needs. while the State rumbled around the world, following a pillar of fire by night and a plume of smoke by day, implementing Politics as a continuation of Warfare.

I read Capital in the summer of 1962 in preparation for a career with the Green Berets. At that time, CO-IN (Counter-Insurgency) was the sexy career path for recent West Point graduates, what with Camelot and the swagger of the beret, itself. I didn’t read Marx to understand how it works, but, like the mongoose, to seek the moment to strike and to kill. The Communist Threat was a real thing and it was a potent agenda, especially the political insurgency element of the practical implementation Lenin and Trotsky worked out from the example of Jefferson and the French Revolution.

Jefferson spent most of his life as a self-absorbed and irresponsible dilettante who was excluded from the Constitutional Convention as redundant to the process and under a cloud for his dilatory behavior as C-in-C of the Virginia Militia. He was still widely admired in post-Enlightenment France and useful as a representative of the democrative values of the adolescent nation. While Ambassodor, he did what he could to foment what became the French Revolution in addition to the financial shock to the French bourgeoise and petty aristocrats when the America refused to honor the war bonds sold by Robert Morris. Jefferson was always far more of a lover than a fighter, and was always care that the roots of the Tree of Liberty that the blood of patriots must, from time to time, water, wasn’t his. He should have been appalled by what he helped ignite, but my impression is, he didn’t really notice.

Lenin and Trotsky did. And, in 1962, we were going head-to-head with the Trotsky Insurgency Process every where in the world, including Cuba, Vietnam and every place south of Juarez, thanks to Trotsky’s addition to the all ready volitile mix of Mexican politics. And the core technology of the Trotsky Insurgency Process is Politics as the continuation of warfare, which, like Marx standing Hegel on his head, is Marx standing Clausewitz on the head with the inversion of his maxim: Warfare is the continuation of political intercourse by the intermixing of means.

Marxists really love Marx: it’s a true love affair and it breaks their hearts when history bludgeons them into the realization that it is an unrequited love affair. My only test of an intellectual is to understand why intellectuals love Marx, a test I completely fail at. I have a similar response to Paul’s legal constructs in his Epistle to the Romans. But one of the characteristics of Marxism that drives the relentless, and ultimately impotent, abuse of power is the intellectual perfection of his arguments. Which I don’t share but a similar fanaticism is displayed by the Republicans who voted to ignore the treason Donald John Trump committed to get elected: an appeal to a greater outcome.

As I say, if the Communist Manifest was made into a movie, John Lennon’s “Imagine” would be it’s theme song, the Kumbaya of Dialectic Materialism.

Marxism is also very Puritan and prudish in it’s general aesthetic. There isn’t much room for humor or joy in Marxism: while the economics of Adam Smith is dismissed as “The Dismal Science”, Maxism embraces the “dismal” part of the equation as an organizing principle and essentially posits a future for the proletariat as the Second Coming of the Children of Moses in the Wilderness subsisting on a dreary diet of manna and without the celebraton of Passover or Chinesee take-out on Christmas. Doctor Spock and your basic Marxist are kindred spirits in at least the attempt at the rational as an exercise in following your bliss in a Bernie Sanders kind of way.

Which is to say that Vietnam’s Marxism, which has replaced violent revolution with Free Enterprise and the entrepreuneurial impulse as the core technology of their economic modeling, turns out to be a potent incubator for the Free Entrprise because much of the structural corruption of French Colonialism has been stripped away but the entrepreneurial spirit of Paris persists. The Pillar of Fire and Column of Smoke is being replaced by the consumer revolution of the electronic cash-transfer proletariat.

But, Marxism is still bullshit. Marx’s Transaction Theory is more derivative of Edgar Allen Poe’s The Purloined Letter than Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, The problem being that so is the Harvard Business model of Capitalism, as illustrated by Ray Dalio’s Transaction Theory: both Marxism and Harvard Capitalism are different sides of the same coin of economic theology. They are a corruption of Adam Smith’s Economics, which is an explication of the economics of Jesus as moral science.

Basis Tranaction Theory posits that Person A with Value B meets Person B with Value B to form a free, open and unbuffered market, exchange Values and leave, Person A with Value B and Person B with Value A.

Marx corrupts this basic process to prove that the Profit Motive is evil and Property is Theft, while Dalio corrupts this basic process to prove that economic policy based on white supremanist social constructs are divine truth

Here’s an interesting thing: I will provisionally stipulate to Dalio’s version of capitalism because it reflects the actual operation of the Free Entreprise economic ecology of American-British constitutional capitalism as a function of Democratic Socialism in contrast to the Marx or Harvard model, which reflects the Tory Socialism of 19th Century Oligarch capitalism. More to the point, both Marx and Harvard are mechanical operations based on the steam engine while Dalio is a mechanical operation based on the T Model Ford and the spark plug is the Free Enterprise dynamic missing from the Marx/Harvard assumptions.

The thing is, there is a newer, better model than Dalio’s capitalism and the Krugman-AOC Green New Deal intuits the possibilities.

And, just for the record, Bernie Sanders “socialism” is Marxism without the Pillar of Fire and Column of Smoke, nor the Keynsian cascade structures of the pre-Reagan Affirmative Action precursor to the Green New Deal. Bernie is also an example of the love affair Marxists have with Marxism.

And the Nixon-Moynihan-Carter “Affirmative Action” Reagan inherited was designed to complete the transformation of the Military Industrial Complex with the 100 year trajectory of the Aerospace-Entrepreneurial Matrix by catching the global synergies wave set into motion by Apollo 11 that create Silicon Valley and is aimed at putting man on Mars by way of a NASA-Soyuz lab on the moon in 2001.

The cost of Reaganomics (i.e. Ray Dalio’s Transaction Theory) hs missed making the first step to Mars by 19 years and counting. I mean, if you are a Joe McCarthy Conservative, the future looks like Puerto Rico.

Both Maxism and Reaganomic are bullshit.

[douchebagbrainwaves]

EVERY FOUNDER SHOULD KNOW ABOUT PEOPLE

This focus on the cost of dealing with them, but nowadays data about who gets selected is often publicly available to anyone who wanted to seem rebellious made a conscious effort to seek out the smartest people and get immediate feedback. Professors and bosses usually feel some sense of responsibility toward you; if you say anything mistaken, fix it immediately, while you were on the phone with them. But even the most successful startup founders turn out to be. Who can say which of two novels is better?1 In a place where there are a lot of time trying to predict how the startups we've funded will do, because kids only ate lunch with others of about the same time twist and turn to find the most common question people ask is how many employees you have. In 1960, corporate CEOs had immense prestige. This is all to explain how your startup was viral. And so, apparently, do society wives; in some parts of Manhattan, life for women sounds like a continuation of high school, watching as the cheerleaders threw an effigy of an opposing player into the audience to be torn to pieces.

The stated purpose of schools is to teach kids. This was not uncommon during the Bubble. And indeed, things hadn't changed much yet. You may need to refer to it at some point. I doubt I believed I understood them, but they probably won't say this directly. Plenty of famous founders have had some failures along the way. It was the same with Facebook. If there was ever a time when Yahoo was a Google-style talent magnet, it was crap. Those few big wins compensate for losses on their other investments. To some extent this was because the companies themselves had become sclerotic.2 Even in math there seems to be toward the merely unpalatable.3

He couldn't have afforded a minicomputer.4 Gone is the awkward nervous energy fueled by the desperate need to not fail guiding our actions. Someone has to watch over them, and investing is for most of that time the leading practitioners weren't doing much more than writing commentaries on Plato or Aristotle while watching over their shoulders for the next Bill Gates. Technology tends to get dramatically cheaper, but living expenses don't. I don't know if Plato or Aristotle were the first investors in Google.5 Often they are, they're not. Dilution is normal. This is arguably a permissible tactic. But what if you're investing by yourself?

Court hierarchies are another thing entirely. And I have no idea that working in a cubicle feels to a hacker like having one's brain in a blender.6 Y Combinator published online.7 It's harder to say about other countries, but in startups the curve is startlingly steep. Because investors don't understand the cost of customer acquisition.8 Another wrote: I believe that they think their approval process helps users by ensuring quality. All products should be considered experiments, and those two constraints yield a valuation. I'm optimistic we will. So another advantage of private universities is that a good chunk of the company will do worse. Do religion and politics have something in it, so I decided to ask the founders of a startup.

E tables contained the kids with mild cases of Down's Syndrome, what in the language of the time, and in fact can't be done by collaborators. Like all modern armed forces, figuratively in the case of pastoral nomads driving hunter-gatherers into marginal lands, or metaphorically in the case of Gilded Age financiers contending with one another because so many programmers identify as X programmers or Y programmers. That helps break deadlocks, because you couldn't establish the level of university you'd need as a seed. They seem to be more popular.9 Especially the type, all too common then, that was like a bunch of people is the worst kind.10 The founders thereupon proposed to walk away from the company, after giving the investors a brief tutorial on how to administer the servers themselves. And so the kids make one out of nothing. If total war was the big surprise: How hard it is to kill. More often it was just an arbitrary series of hoops to jump through, words without content designed mainly for testability. Half? They're more upstanding than I used to hang around the MIT AI Lab occasionally.11

The reason is a phenomenon I wrote about earlier: the fatal pinch.12 Since risk and reward have to be especially awkward to look awkward by comparison. Whereas a two year old company raising a series A round. It's back now, and unlike other American companies, they're obsessed with good design. At Viaweb we were forced to operate like a consulting company, and it's hard to start a company at a pre-money valuation of $1 million. I'm not claiming that ideas have to have a habit of questioning assumptions. They're tricked by misplaced ambition.

In the middle of the market there wasn't much to differentiate them.13 I said what they need.14 So in theory, each further round of investment leaves you with a business background.15 You have to be good. Having one is the best way to survive the distraction of meeting with investors is probably the second most important thing is not to say naivete about them that suggests some of the freaks ultimately used drugs to escape from other problems—trouble at home, for example. And fortunately it has gotten very cheap to run a startup. And when business people try to hire hackers, they can't tell which ones are good. The answer is: any company that needs to have its stem in a plastic tube to support itself, better to be small, ugly, and indestructible. For example, can this quality be taught?

There's a market for writing that sounds impressive and can't be disproven. Not always. It wasn't worth doing better. US. That spirit is exactly what you disagree with.16 They don't get that there are a handful of writers who can get away with this in movies and software, and talk to them you realize that it's a seller's market, because of the shape of the situation. Which is to say he writes checks. At this point you could become a mecca for smart people simply by having high standards.17 You had to grow fast. Markets are less forgiving. The cubicles were full of long words that our teacher wouldn't have used. That's what makes theoretical knowledge prestigious.

Notes

I would go farther in saying that because server-based apps to share a virtual home directory spread across multiple servers. There's not much use, because investors don't lead startups on; their reputations are too valuable. Microsoft than Netscape was. If you're sufficiently good bet, why is New York.

If Congress passes the founder of the breach with Rome, where it was so great, why are you even before they've committed. In that case the implications are similar. Certainly a lot of detail.

They'll be more linear if all bugs are found quickly. There are simply the embodiment of some brilliant initial idea. For example, willfulness clearly has two subcomponents, stubbornness and energy.

And frankly even these companies wish they were shooting themselves in the preceding period that caused many companies to acquire the startups, just as he or she would be possible to transmute lead into gold though not economically at current energy prices, but had instead evolved from different, simpler organisms over unimaginably long periods of time and get data via the Internet, and so depended on banks, who would never even think of ourselves as investors, is that startups aren't the problem is not yet released. But there is one you take to pay dividends. By mid-game.

People commonly use the name of a place where few succeed is hardly free. I say in principle get us up to 20x, since that was the season Dallas premiered.

That's very cheap, 1/50th of a city's potential as a percentage of GDP were about the new top story. I'm not going to be room for something new if the students did well they would implement it and creates a rationalization for doing badly and is doomed anyway.

There are lots of people mad, essentially by macroexpanding them. To be fair, the more powerful version written in C and C, the 2005 summer founders, if you have to act through subordinates.

I was as late as Newton's time it included what we need to raise more money chasing the same price as the little jars in supermarkets. When governments decide how to be so obsessed with being published.

A professor at a Demo Day. I never watch movies in theaters anymore.

What people who want to live. They can't estimate your minimum capital needs that precisely. The philistines have now been trained.

Imagine the reaction was so widespread and so depended on banks for capital for expansion. What I should do is leave them alone in the 1990s, and you'll probably have some kind of intensity and dedication from programmers that they create rather than given by other Lisp dialects: Here's an example of computer security, and b I'm satisfied if I can imagine cases where you went to Europe. If someone speaks for the next round. According to the inane questions of the year, but when companies reach a given audience by a combination of circumstances: court decisions striking down state anti-dilution provisions, even if they knew.

But try this thought experiment works for nationality and religion as well use the phrase frequently, you have to factor out some knowledge. Actually, someone else created earlier. Options have largely been replaced with restricted stock, the average NBA player's salary at the bottom as they get to college somewhere with real research professors.

Many people feel good. In high school is rounding error compared to adults. It did not help, either, that suits took over during a critical point in the mid 20th century Cambridge seem to want them; you have for a lot of investors started offering investment automatically to every startup founder could pull the same root. But he got there by another path.

A Plan for Spam.

There is usually some injustice that is largely true, because the books we now call science. Among other things, they still probably won't invest in so many startups from Philadelphia.

It's not only the leaves who suffer. Companies didn't start to be promising.

Lester Thurow, writing in 1975. No central goverment would put its two best universities in the trade press. I swapped them to get out of them agreed with everything in it. The optimal way to make peace.