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"Don't give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those people may appear to be. Beneath the hero's facade you will find a human being who makes human mistakes. Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero. And sometimes you run into another problem. It is demonstrable that power structures tend to attract people who want power for the sake of power and that a significant proportion of such people are imbalanced — in a word, insane.”
Frank Herbert (1920-1986) American science fiction writer.
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Loaded baked potato soup
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Bone ship model made of bone and hair by a Prisoner of War, early 19th century
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“I would say, act like a man of thought and think like a man of action..”
— Henri Bergson (1859-1941) French philosopher.
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blueberry pancakes at the cabin.
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>decide to reboot beloved movie/franchise
>shove your politics in the writing
>make no effort to understand source material
>make a horrendous script
>slap some minorities in the cast as a crutch for the inevitable script backlash
>air it
>fans hate it
>call them racist and sexist
>media fawns over you standing up for minorities
>profit
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“Men knew that the gods whom they served could not give them freedom from danger and calamity, and they did not demand that they should. We find in the myths no sense of bitterness at the harshness and unfairness of life, but rather a spirit of heroic resignation: humanity is born to trouble, but courage, adventure, and the wonders of life are matters for thankfulness, to be enjoyed while life is still granted to us. The great gifts of the gods were readiness to face the world as it was, the luck that sustains men in tight places, and the opportunity to win that glory which alone can survive death.”
~ H. R. Ellis Davidson, Gods and Myths of Northern Europe
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