#Game of thrones farrago antaroyn tv#

He's the one who has to persuade, them, gently, that it cannot be done. The tales he tells of the arrogance of those who won't cooperate, know they are right and everyone else is wrong - not to mention the poobas who try and wheedle him into 'just filing to make it fit' of parts designed to the wrong specs. Ask my brother, who has been running THE lab that develops and tests all the varieties of every bit that goes into the electric systems of the planes we fly in. For one thing, the earliest literary references are not Latin/Saxon/English, but Welsh.įor one thing, if there was a King Arthur, who lived the legendary martial life, one might think the name would be far more common in those earlier periods than it is - in the way that the trauma of Attila on Italy shows up in the number of Italian boys still named Attila.Īs for Elderly Cynic thinking there is no place in math for encouraging cooperation in problem solving - that's a total disaster for any project that demands input from more than one person in a vacuum. Whitwroth - there is absolutely no confirmational evidence that King Arthur ever existed in his popular avatar. That is the Substack from which I pulled the quotes. It underpins the popular (and wildly incorrect) understanding of the 'fall of the Western Roman Empire' as being overrun by barbarians while the elites ate grapes and had orgies. You see this in almost all cultural mythology in the US, and also elsewhere. This was the dominant myth of the American Revolution, it is the dominant myth of the Qnuts and Teapartiers, it is the dominant myth behind Brexit: 'The British people are tired of 'experts' (read: corrupt elites who don't know anything about real life).'

#Game of thrones farrago antaroyn tv#

I could spend hours listing the movies, tv shows and books that echo this mythology. The key point in this mythology is that the power brokers are ALWAYS effete and corrupt, probably gay, and the only people who can fix it are the rural honest hardworking folk who also have skills at violence. Variations include 'the betrayal by the corrupt elites in power'. In Cincinnatus' case this happened more than once (purportedly). 'Noble but humble man goes back to his country estate/farm/woods cabin/retreat to live a quiet life, but gets dragged back in to save the Empire/country/family through the superior use of violence, but only out of a sense of duty'. The most consistently repeated myth in US films goes back to Cincinnatus in the early Roman Republic. Iraq had fuck all to do with 9/11 and invading them was never necessary and was NEVER going to produce anything worthwhile.Īlso got caught by the new thread. may have had a legitimate beef with the Taliban government in Afghanistan, but if so we should have gone in, captured or killed al Qaeda and got the hell out. Where we screwed them up was in occupying them in the first place. Where empires tend to fail is in long-term occupations, especially in places remote from the rest of the empire. It looks like a great power can take on a non-state organization and break them up. IIRC this is fairly normal for empires, as shown by the disappearance of sicarii, assassins, KKK (first two incarnations, also White Camellia, KGC, ad nauseum), thugee, and others. The US screwed up the Iraqi and Afghani occupations, but global terror networks did take a beating. More seriously, I'd say that while Al Qaeda and ISIL are still around, they're not the big shakers that they were in previous years. Perhaps this is part of the wisdom in letting Ukraine fight Russia? As for climate change, we're #1! We're #1!

Heteromeles 1598: Please, USA: promise us to never declare war on fascism-or on climate change, for that matter!