#Madness in Civilization

[setewbro]

I was reading Madness in Civilization and came across the book Degeneration, by Max Nordau.

Degeneration was invoked to explain far more than insanity alone. All the pathologies of modern life were laid at its door: prostitution, crime, delinquency, alcoholism, suicide, epilepsy, hysteria, feeble-mindedness, the physical deformation of many of the lower classes (in reality a result of want and malnutrition) – what could not be attributed to its ravages? It was a narrative that fed into fin-de-siècle fears of national decay and decline that were particularly potent in France after the humiliation of its defeat by the Prussians in 1870–71, but felt everywhere, even in Germany itself, as Max Nordau’s book Entartung (Degeneration; 1892), vividly reflects and illustrates.37 (The book provoked much controversy – it was mocked by the Harvard philosopher and psychologist William James – and ironically, since Nordau was a Jew and a Zionist, its ideas were later borrowed by the Nazis.)

- Madness in Civilization by Andrew Scull

And this caught my attention, because it didn't surprise me at all considering the comparisons between Zionism and Nazism as ideologies. So I searched Max Nordau's name and apparently he was the Co-founder of the World Zionist Organization and also coined the term "Muscular Judaism". There's also a street called Nordau Boulevard in Tel Aviv (Occupied Palestine).

Anyways, the links between Zionism and Eugenics has been talked before by other people, so this is nothing new.

[megamindsupremacy]

Why did we even make coffee Tim’s fanonized caffeine of choice. That asshole is chugging Monsters like any other self disrespecting teenager. He has a Monster wall in the titans tower common area that he uses to intimidate new recruits.

[florida3exclamationpoints]

Marvel + text posts

[avengerscompound]

Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff My favorite looks through all the shows.

[sapphirerogers]

The thing about Captain America: Civil War is that it's part of a trilogy about one specific man named Steve Rogers. Therefore it is supposed to be about Steve Rogers and primarily from his perspective.

It's the episode right after CATWS, and the story is supposed to directly tie in with the events of CATWS. It's hilarious (= enraging) how people just seem to conveniently overlook that little detail while talking about (or rather, shitting on) Steve's decisions and actions.

When you see him argue against the accords, you're supposed to actually remember that the government was infiltrated in the previous Cap movie and it was only two years ago. And that Steve was right in the middle of the fray.

When you see him trying to save the other supersoldiers, you're supposed to correlate that to him discovering the Winter Soldier and as shown in the last scene of CATWS, finding out everything Hydra did to Bucky.

When Steve says "He's my friend," you're supposed to remember Bucky falling from the train in CATFA, and 2014!Steve saying "even when I had nothing, I had Bucky." And you're supposed to empathise with the scrawny kid from Brooklyn who had no one but James Bucky Barnes in his corner. You're supposed to remember that Bucky would, and did follow this scrawny kid into the jaw of death.

Every single thing he does/says has a background in the previous two movies.

Now you might say "yeah but so does Tony-" yeah and tell me something, is it called "Iron Man: Civil War"? Or "Avengers: Civil War"?

Saying Steve's the bad guy in his own fucking movie is you completely missing the entire point of all three of the movies with him in the title.

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[mbirnsings-71]

Hello... I've fallen into the void send help-

[mumblesplash]

evbo. evbo get back here right now. what the fuck is the narrative pov of pvpciv

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

You can bet your ass!

[ganondoodle]

:C

[sincerethoughtsblog]

she's everything he's just ken.

[maigetheplatypus57]

Do you ever think about parkour god Evbo and like, how he never has to worry about falling ever again?

Sure if he ever missed a jump it's easy enough to place a block to land on... but even without that there's really no punishment if he DOES fall into the void.

There's no status he's fighting to keep, no fear of losing his champion title or ending up a level lower or in hell simply because he fumbled at the wrong time.

Do you think that sometimes he'll just stand or lay down in the void, just to see what it's like? Does he finally feel safe in the embrace of the vast expanse he has given himself to, over and over again? Does falling without fear feel like flying, sometimes?

Icarus flew up to meet the sun and fell, but instead of drowning he became the wind itself, forever one with the sky that he's dreamed of seeing his whole life.

Do you ever just think about… how relaxed he must feel. Just how free

[isdisorigionalenoughforyou]

yknow sometimes i think about how mr seawatt gaming parkourcivilization only got to where he was by leveraging his knowledge of obscure rules and mechanics and keeping all his cards close to his heart. how he clearly only got to where he originally was in the 1st movie by making himself useful with amethyst blocks and brewing stand jumps. and how it all crumbled because evbo 360-ed all over his carefully laid plans but really, his undoing was his own hubris.

and he's shit at parkour

[reality-detective]

Aren't you mad as hell watching this shit show? What's it going to take for you? Where do you draw the line? Ignoring it won't make it go away and the shit is gonna eventually hit the fan. 🤔

[itspileofgoodthings]

one of my favorite things about pride and prejudice is that in the last third of the book Elizabeth’s internal monologue about Darcy is her admitting that she’s in love with him but also putting all sorts of qualifications around that statement that kind of ...tamp down the level of emotion (the “feelings, if not as tender as Jane’s for Bingley, at least as just” line, even the whole thing about her and Darcy being well-matched objectively speaking) and as soon as she’s engaged you get the unbridled joy in the narrative about her own joy, cc: “I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.” 

[ironspidersblog]

Thinking about this tweet cause like I MEAN YEAH

[maximura]