There will be no gun control, not only because of the gun lobby and a corrupt political class, but because for many white Americans the idea of the gun is the only power they have left.
i m horrified there is this fetishization of guns and this valorization of killing people under the circumstances under which they were killed. but the other thing that strikes me is this is profoundly unhealthy for a young person. yes. i mean we just know about the psychic toll and the emotional toll that celebrity takes on young people. it is a well-known story of the child star who is very poorly adjusted as an adult. compound that with being a celebrity for killing two people and shooting a third. i just think that this is wrong. i think it is immoral and unethical in ways that go across partisan lines. about the firearm part of it specifically though, this is about him realizing an objective, which has been fairly well-stated on the right for a long time. there s a great book on this, you know, gunfighter nation
compound that with being a celebrity for killing two people. and shooting a third. i just think this is wrong. it s immoral, an unethical in ways that go across partisan lines. about the firearm part of his specifically though, this is about him realizing, it an objective, which is been fairly well stated on the right for a long time. there s a great book on this, richard sloughed ins gunfighter nation, talking about the psychology of the firearm. and how it relates in american history, but this is a quick point of it, a decade ago. this was george zimmerman. and he received a similar kind of treatment. this is what goes to the core, of the values of people on the right. and they re increasingly reactionary violent rate. i m glad you said which you said in that first part to. i feel the exact same way, when he was acquitted i tweeted
The visual unconscious of
The Searchers is mediated by its anti-hero protagonist Ethan Edwards, played by John Wayne. Ethan operates at the centre of the visual field of the film from beginning to end. The film opens with a shot of his sister-in-law, Martha (Dorothy Jordan), seeing him walking in from the desert, while gradually the rest of her family, including the dog, come out of the homestead to see him. With the wind blowing into the faces of Martha’s children, Ben (Robert Lyden) and Lucy (Pippa Scott), it’s almost as if seeing Ethan has physical effects.
Between the film’s end and its beginning, the visual results of the various violent acts committed by the Comanche upon the settlers are seen only by Ethan. Some of the characters implore him to tell them what he’s seen, or let them see as well, all of which he prohibits. “Did they…? Was she…?” Brad (Harry Carey Jr.) cries to Ethan, concerning his kidnapped, raped, and murdered fiancé Lucy, to the latter’s