Category: Critique
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French Propaganda Technique, or Why I Bounced Off of Jacques Ellul
These works of Ellul are thought-provoking but they are not works of first-rate philosophy. Ellul’s analysis in them is too limited. His observations can be made more useful but they will need someone who can go through his works line by line and elaborate the points that he touches on. As an account of these…
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Hot Allostatic Vampire Castle
The reason that this distinction is important is because both Vampire’s Castle and Allostatic Load locate the issues as specifically being within leftism, progressivism, trans identity, etc.: generally left-wing politics. This identification is a result of their specific grievances, not because leftism itself has a problem. These problems are problems of community in general. Looking…
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Adventures, Morality, and the Outer Worlds
Why do adventure games force you to slay a whole dungeon full of bad guys, but then say that if you spare the boss, you’re a saint?
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Those Who Wish Me Dead: What Is a Neo-Western?
[wpedon id=”566″ align=”center”] I’ve always felt the need to defend my love of westerns as a genre, and I think that if the makers of Those Who Wish Me Dead are also primarily western-lovers, they also feel this need. I bring it up because I did see this movie described as a “neo-western” which is…
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Bad Magic: Planeswalkers
Finally, I have come back to Magic: the Gathering. Buuuut the planeswalker focus makes me feel I might be walking back out.