Rating: ❤❤❤❤ I’m a feminist; I’m not a feminist. I’m an equity feminist, not a gender feminist. Well, technically – oh, screw it. Current social discourse is so convoluted and contentious we’re damned by just about any honest statement we make about gender-related issues. On one hand, gender is diagnosed as an overestimated, odious construct, but …
Rating: ❤❤❤❤ For me, the most sympathetic character in Alan Moore’s graphic-novel masterpiece, Watchmen, is Rorschach: a gritty, psychologically conflicted, fedora- and trench coat-clad vigilante who hides his face with an inkblot-printed mask (hence his alias). Modelled after Steve Ditko’s Ayn Rand-inspired Mr. A and The Question, personifications of a Manichaean version of Objectivism, Rorschach tends …
Rating: ❤❤❤ If Thoreau perceived that humans led “lives of quiet desperation” way back in his day, imagine how he would react to the apparent mass desperation today. Imagine how the technologies of simultaneous convenience and overstimulation would strike him, how the prominence of work, work, work – much of it quantity-over-quality work – over contemplation, …
