Thank you. Appreciate not having to listen to the Auteur for the insights. Especially Nolan's answer in re: Xenia, as that explains some things.
Nolan's clever answer to Xenia points to old school subversion. The aristos and hoi polloi currently fight over and refer to the history Rome and the barbarian invasions.
Our best rebels and patriots in both classes are the neo-pagans and hard Christians. Nolan's answer pajama-boys both the pagan honor and Christian obedience.
WE are both Troy and the Greeks, and either way, our women are raped away, our patrimony must be abandoned, and our cities burn: we have it coming, but we'll get the technicolor feels.
(I'd like to watch the full video before I comment, but watching YouTube videos is the arseing-off-at-work line I won't cross.)
The, "What are the Gods?" question is especially interesting, because Homer himself lived in a time when the Gods, and people's relationships to them, were very different from what we have today.
Set aside any question of belief versus non-belief - I think that we would all agree that someone who claimed not only to talk to God, but to have experienced God as a physical manifestation, is likely a candidate for the puzzle factory.
That was very much not the case during Homer's lifetime. Interacting with the supernatural was a normal and expected fact of life in ancient Greece. There were *no* atheists in ancient Greece, the very idea of not believing in the Gods would have been incomprehensible - it would have been like not believing in the existence of dogs today.
I think that one of the reasons that The Odyssey felt so awkward and contrived, is that it was not only directed by a postmodernist Progressive, but it was written by and cast with postmodern Progressives as well. I'm not saying that you need to believe in God to write a mythic story, but you need to at least understand how people could...
Thank you. Appreciate not having to listen to the Auteur for the insights. Especially Nolan's answer in re: Xenia, as that explains some things.
Nolan's clever answer to Xenia points to old school subversion. The aristos and hoi polloi currently fight over and refer to the history Rome and the barbarian invasions.
Our best rebels and patriots in both classes are the neo-pagans and hard Christians. Nolan's answer pajama-boys both the pagan honor and Christian obedience.
WE are both Troy and the Greeks, and either way, our women are raped away, our patrimony must be abandoned, and our cities burn: we have it coming, but we'll get the technicolor feels.
(I'd like to watch the full video before I comment, but watching YouTube videos is the arseing-off-at-work line I won't cross.)
The, "What are the Gods?" question is especially interesting, because Homer himself lived in a time when the Gods, and people's relationships to them, were very different from what we have today.
Set aside any question of belief versus non-belief - I think that we would all agree that someone who claimed not only to talk to God, but to have experienced God as a physical manifestation, is likely a candidate for the puzzle factory.
That was very much not the case during Homer's lifetime. Interacting with the supernatural was a normal and expected fact of life in ancient Greece. There were *no* atheists in ancient Greece, the very idea of not believing in the Gods would have been incomprehensible - it would have been like not believing in the existence of dogs today.
I think that one of the reasons that The Odyssey felt so awkward and contrived, is that it was not only directed by a postmodernist Progressive, but it was written by and cast with postmodern Progressives as well. I'm not saying that you need to believe in God to write a mythic story, but you need to at least understand how people could...
A set of questions more worth than the one being questioned.