tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post2048331541594571006..comments2024-03-19T02:31:02.140-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: James CameronUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger109125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-72309085850003593482010-01-04T05:05:53.449-08:002010-01-04T05:05:53.449-08:00Avatar just hit the $1billion mark. Of course, th...Avatar just hit the $1billion mark. Of course, this will not stop the pundits who were proclaiming that the movie would not be profitable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-76686747581921233802009-12-29T16:19:13.826-08:002009-12-29T16:19:13.826-08:00The message of the Old Testament can be summed up ...<i>The message of the Old Testament can be summed up as "Nearly everyone is bad, and while yes, the few good people who have lived have mostly been Israelites, on the whole the stiff-necked and ungrateful Hebrews are as bad as anyone else." It is not an ethnocentric book.</i><br /><br />Do you have a detailed post on this on your blog, maybe? I've never found anyone willing to really argue the matter. It would probably be better to do it there than here.Svigorhttp://majorityrights.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-51535216500997429332009-12-25T04:49:25.880-08:002009-12-25T04:49:25.880-08:00It's true, a huge amount of Canadian NHL playe...It's true, a huge amount of Canadian NHL players move to the States. If they spend even one season playing for an American team, it's like they're lost forever. It rarely goes the other way around; almost no American athletes playing for Canadian teams live in Canada after retiring, or even during the off season. Roy Halladay spent 12 years pitching for the Toronto Blue Jays and he never set down roots. Carlos Delgado played in Toronto for the same amount of time and promptly sold his town house after free agency.<br /><br />Perhaps the most infamous example was Toronto Raptors player Antonio Davis. His son came home from school one day and told him what he learned ... Canadian History. This upset Davis so much that he wanted a trade out of Toronto. "He'll never work in this town again" seemed like a given, but hilariously enough he was actually traded BACK to Toronto a few years later (he retired when the season was over).MacSweeneynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-72107553390872705252009-12-24T17:47:30.398-08:002009-12-24T17:47:30.398-08:00"the Bible always portrays the Hebrews as goo..."the Bible always portrays the Hebrews as good and the enemies of Hebrews as totally bad--with a few rare exceptions"<br /><br />I've gone through this before and don't feel like providing citations again, but the first half of this is not true. <br /><br />The message of the Old Testament can be summed up as "Nearly everyone is bad, and while yes, the few good people who have lived have mostly been Israelites, on the whole the stiff-necked and ungrateful Hebrews are as bad as anyone else." It is not an ethnocentric book.James Kabalahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02335302113772004687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-27978872420149271582009-12-24T15:32:40.454-08:002009-12-24T15:32:40.454-08:00"I only watch movies with characters who are ..."I only watch movies with characters who are human, sound-effects that are human-scale, and visual effects that are not nauseating to humans."<br /><br />Ever hear of theatre? Even without special effects, cinema IS special effects.Middletown Girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-46569751171536347982009-12-24T13:20:37.836-08:002009-12-24T13:20:37.836-08:00I only watch movies with characters who are human,...<i>I only watch movies with characters who are human, sound-effects that are human-scale, and visual effects that are not nauseating to humans.<br /><br />I liked "Up in the Air" and "Me and Orson Welles." Call movie fans like me "humanists."</i><br /><br />Yes! Those two movies were the last ones I enjoyed and I heartily agree about small-scale movies generally being much more interesting than special-effects-laden claptrap and otherwise overblown Hollywood crap.green mambanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-3953547663950338012009-12-23T20:21:59.834-08:002009-12-23T20:21:59.834-08:00You know, though AVATAR may be seen as an anti-Wes...You know, though AVATAR may be seen as an anti-Western movie, it may well be in the tradition of Western Art. Iliad is generally considered the greatest work of Western literature after the Bible, but it portrays the vanquished Trojans far more favorably than the Greeks. Trojans are generally noble, courageous, and self-less--except for Paris--whereas the Greeks tend to be divided, vain, selfish, and reckless. Interesting that it was considered a war-drum-beating 'nationalistic' poem. <br /><br />Furthermore, another great Greek literature associated with the Trojan War is 'Trojan Women', and Greeks come across as even worse than in the Iliad. <br /><br />It may be that the sympathy for the Trojans partly stemmed from the fact that Trojans were remembered as a 'mythic' people even when the story was first told and because the Trojans lost the war. Generally, you hate an enemy when it poses a threat or challenge but feel sympathy when it's been defeated--especially if it had been a proud and worthy enemy. White Americans did a fair amount of romanticizing of American Indians once the Red Man was vanquished. I think the book LAST OF THE MOHICANS--didn't read it--had some of that. Later, after the Wild West was tamed, there were even American currencies showing images of great Indian warriors. <br /><br />A movie like Letters from Iwo Jima would have been unthinkable in the 40s or 50s. But, with the passage of time, many Hollywood movies did portray the Japanese as a worthy and proud enemy. And, maybe Hiroshima and Nagasaki filled Americans with some degree of guilt--just like total sack of Troy made the Greeks none too proud afterwards. (Of course, it might be folly on the part of whites to still think they are victors over the world and in a position to feel sympathy for The Other. It may seem that way to rich whites like James Cameron, but it sure doesn't seem that way to white Americans in the SW or Europeans having to deal with crazy Muslims). <br /><br />Then, there is the Bible, which isn't really Western but Near Eastern in origin. If the Greeks were capable of empathy for non-Greeks--even regarding them as morally superior to the Greeks at times--, the Bible always portrays the Hebrews as good and the enemies of Hebrews as totally bad--with a few rare exceptions. There is no Jewish 'Trojan Women' which questions the morality of Israelite genocide of the Canaanites. <br />Perhaps, the presence of many gods--none of them perfect--informed the Greeks that no one people or side monopolize virtue or affection of the gods. Jews, on the other hand, believed in the one and only god, and since Jews regarded themselves as the 'chosen people', there was less need to feel sorry about what Jews did to other peoples. <br />On the other hand, the bible does stress that Jews should not mistreat non-Jews living amongst Jews since Jews had been oppressed by other peoples too.Middletown Girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-43749296602796301022009-12-23T20:18:44.987-08:002009-12-23T20:18:44.987-08:00Mike Myers is a perfect example, wraps himself in ...<i>Mike Myers is a perfect example, wraps himself in the Canadian flag</i><br /><br />Ive seen an interview where he said he felt himself to be British and in fact holds a British passport. I do know his parents were British born, emigrated to Canada.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-21829452412904745062009-12-23T18:31:30.149-08:002009-12-23T18:31:30.149-08:00I hope you got a graduate degree after all that ti...I hope you got a graduate degree after all that time.Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-48980330158352830342009-12-23T18:29:17.702-08:002009-12-23T18:29:17.702-08:00In a way, Avatar is like Ancient Romans vs the Ger...In a way, Avatar is like Ancient Romans vs the Germanic Barbarians. <br />The Blue Brothers even have a Yggdrasill-like Tree. <br />I think Cameron took the idea of the avatar--masquerade--from Lang's Metropolis where robot replaces a woman, but all the sacred nature stuff might have been inspired by Lang's Siegfried and Kriemhilde's Revenge. <br /><br />Or, maybe the movie is really a statement about how cyberspace, videogames, and whatnot are avatarizing all of us. We can pretend to be anyone in cyberspace or videogames. Even a geek can play Madden's football and pretend to be a great athlete. <br />It's only a matter of time before virtual reality really goes crazy.Middletown Girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-15073297278717177242009-12-23T14:57:44.234-08:002009-12-23T14:57:44.234-08:00>Yeah, that's it Bob; Alma Matter is Latin ...>Yeah, that's it Bob; Alma Matter is Latin for "met at science fiction conventions."<<br /><br />Actually, it means "went to college for six years but still did not learn to spell or punctuate."<br /><br />Live long and prosper!kudzu bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00865247508134005274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-70123081975931359292009-12-23T14:13:55.180-08:002009-12-23T14:13:55.180-08:00"He let slip that he's met Harlan Ellison..."He let slip that he's met Harlan Ellison at science fiction conventions"<br /><br />Yeah, that's it Bob; Alma Matter is Latin for "met at science fiction conventions."Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-19595345073433220032009-12-23T12:21:25.424-08:002009-12-23T12:21:25.424-08:00"You know, the blue tart in Avatar looks kind..."You know, the blue tart in Avatar looks kinda like... Sarah Palin. Difference is Palin's message to civilization is 'COME ON AND SUCK OUT THE OIL'. On the other hand, part of her appeal is as WILD WOMAN up against pompous city slickers."<br /><br />"Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeow! Her appeal is that she doesn't come off as a bitter, unfeminine, Sontag-quoting man-hater with a barely disguised contempt for white people and western civilization, unlike some people (ahem)."<br /><br />------------<br /><br />Sontag wasn't man-hating, and she was beautiful in her youth. Feminine too. True, she was a leftist, but even on that account, more thoughtful than most. <br /><br />I think there is a bitter element in Palin, and it is what I like about her. Why shouldn't patriotic people not be bitter with all the problems facing us? McCain was too mellow, too nice. But Palin on the campaign trail was willing to dish out some dirt at Obascum. <br /><br />Palin is womanly but not exactly feminine. Any creature who hunts and skins moose isn't feminine in the traditional sense. But, she retains and is proud of her good looks and sexy qualities.Middletown Girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-66656969720428398892009-12-23T08:46:24.546-08:002009-12-23T08:46:24.546-08:00I only watch movies with characters who are human,...I only watch movies with characters who are human, sound-effects that are human-scale, and visual effects that are not nauseating to humans.<br /><br />I liked "Up in the Air" and "Me and Orson Welles." Call movie fans like me "humanists."<br /><br />Saw a part of some indie on IFC. Scene: a man and an elderly woman, strangers to each other, both worried about personal issues, were arguing over a seat on a train, at length. I stopped flipping channels and checked it out with a shrug. The scene kept going and I got hooked. Fascinated. Absorbed with these two people and what the outcome of their little dispute would be. Emotionally caught up in the thing. Only later did it dawn on me this was a foreign language film. The characters hadn't spoken one word of English (my only language). THAT'S filmmaking.<br /><br />Explosions and flying blue she-males are for the Idiocracy crowd.<br /><br />Didn't Cameron begin Avatar in high school, scrawling the aliens in his school notebook a la Napoleon Dynamite drawing "ligers" in his? About the same intellectual level, IMO.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-22045040425793221142009-12-23T04:46:14.252-08:002009-12-23T04:46:14.252-08:00"You know, the blue tart in Avatar looks kind..."You know, the blue tart in Avatar looks kinda like... Sarah Palin. Difference is Palin's message to civilization is 'COME ON AND SUCK OUT THE OIL'. On the other hand, part of her appeal is as WILD WOMAN up against pompous city slickers."<br /><br />Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeow! Her appeal is that she doesn't come off as a bitter, unfeminine, Sontag-quoting man-hater with a barely disguised contempt for white people and western civilization, unlike some people (ahem).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-27244493078673434122009-12-22T20:45:01.526-08:002009-12-22T20:45:01.526-08:00>Well, what have you to show for it? What have ...>Well, what have you to show for it? What have you accomplished, you lying blowhard?<<br /><br />Leave Truth alone. He let slip that he's met Harlan Ellison at science fiction conventions...<i>and that means he's a fanboy, the most despised minority of all!</i>kudzu bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00865247508134005274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-52176427254216434732009-12-22T20:21:54.176-08:002009-12-22T20:21:54.176-08:00Yankees are, to use Edward Banfield's term, Ju...Yankees are, to use Edward Banfield's term, Judeo-Puritans and not like other white folks. Hell, even the greatest Yankee novelist believes they might be evil:<br /><br />"The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating in them, till they are left living on with half a heart and half a lung. That intangible malignity which has been from the beginning; to whose dominion even the modern Christians ascribe one-half of the worlds; which the ancient Ophites of the east reverenced in their statue devil; -- Ahab did not fall down and worship it like them; but deliriously transferring its idea to the abhorred white whale, he pitted himself, all mutilated, against it. All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby-Dick. He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it."The Bearnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-2776055782370145552009-12-22T18:47:13.680-08:002009-12-22T18:47:13.680-08:00You know, the blue tart in Avatar looks kinda like...You know, the blue tart in Avatar looks kinda like... Sarah Palin. Difference is Palin's message to civilization is 'COME ON AND SUCK OUT THE OIL'. On the other hand, part of her appeal is as WILD WOMAN up against pompous city slickers. <br /><br />This is all very confusing. Many people living near nature in Alaska and Northwest want more lumbering and oil drilling while the sophisticates living in concrete & glass cities wax romantic about pristine nature. <br /><br />I wonder how many primitive peoples would be for preservation of 'sacred nature' if they could sell their resources for big bucks? I suspect all the New Age stuff about innocent noble savages worshiping and living in harmony with nature is a tad exaggerated. Primitive people don't live in harmony with nature. They live in conflict with it. Primitives and wild animals probably wouldn't mind a little less conflict and easier access to foodies and goodies. <br /><br />What wild animal doesn't prefer free food from tourists over stuff they have to hunt for? I'll bet primitive people are just as crass, acquisitive, and greedy in their own way. Indeed, the clever ones use all the holy-schmoly New Age stuff merely as political and economic leverage than out of genuine spiritual devotion to nature. <br />Just look at all those African tribes who will gladly kill entire herds of elephants to sell ivory on the black market. They want cash to buy cool modern stuff like guns, tobacco, tv, and even cars. <br /><br />It's one thing for people like Cameron to argue that it's wrong for imperialists to take what belongs to another people but quite another to assume that primitive peoples prefer to preserve 'sacred nature' than dig it up and sell it to others for huge profits. <br /><br />In other words, if primitives faced the prospect of being evicted from their lands, they make a lot of noise--with the help of Western liberals--of how evil and greedy it would be to despoil sacred mother earth. But, if their claim to the land is secure and permanent, they are eager to sell as much of their natural resources as possible--like Arabs with their oil and Southeast Asians with lumber--to make lots of cash and live a good life. <br /><br />Only starry-eyed Western liberals are fool enough to think primitives would rather use leaves than toilet tissue or <br />drink pond water over tap or bottled water. Or beer or coca-cola.Middletown Girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-91479989601980893552009-12-22T17:27:59.532-08:002009-12-22T17:27:59.532-08:00Oh, the greatest civilization-meets-primitives mov...Oh, the greatest civilization-meets-primitives movie: PROFOUND DESIRE OF THE GODS. Gotta be seen to be believed.Middletown Girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-6954789351446248122009-12-22T17:23:03.170-08:002009-12-22T17:23:03.170-08:00Albertosaurus: Making it out of infancy was the t...Albertosaurus: Making it out of infancy was the tough part. Once you made it past age 2 or 3, and certainly once you made it past 10 or 12, you might not live to be 80, but you would probably make it into your 50s or 60s.<br /><br />As for TB, people may have thought strange things in strange backwaters, but no educated or even half-educated person in the West in 1854 would have believed in vampires.James Kabalahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02335302113772004687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-5694389233785399852009-12-22T16:46:51.558-08:002009-12-22T16:46:51.558-08:00"Steve, or anyone else out there, where would..."Steve, or anyone else out there, where would a young James Cameron move to today?"<br /><br />He'd move to Charleston, drink light beer with Svigor at SWPL Microbreweries, and complain about all of the blacks.<br /><br />"That black guy in Seattle, don't forget."<br /><br />Yes, a black guy in Seattle who engaged in the parallel activity that gave you multiple orgasms in a movie theatre 25 years ago.<br /><br />"Truth", you're always going on about...how if we're as smart as we think, then what have we to show for it."<br /><br />The nerve of me.<br /><br />"Well, what have you to show for it? What have you accomplished, you lying blowhard? Given that you seem to think you are one of the smartest people in the world - or at least one of the smartest people whom you have ever known (in which case I have to assume that you live at the bottom of a well) then why are you just a no-account troll, who ridiculously puffs himself up on the internet?"<br /><br /><br />LMAO! LMAO! LMAO! You guys make me laugh way to often here, thanks.<br /><br />"So, if the white man arrives as an overwhelming corporate or military force, he is the bad guy and the nature-primitives are the good guys.<br />But, if the white man gets lost in jungle and is vastly outnumbered by cannibalistic savages, he is the good guy."<br /><br />What are the odds of that?!Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-76486018767660030922009-12-22T15:09:35.808-08:002009-12-22T15:09:35.808-08:00Whether Cameron is liberal or not, his success sho...<i>Whether Cameron is liberal or not, his success should be a morale-booster to white gentiles.</i><br /><br />No, Mel Gibson's should.Hockey Pucknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-24469282164403789442009-12-22T15:08:02.344-08:002009-12-22T15:08:02.344-08:00Will Avatar sink, swim, and surf at the box office...Will Avatar sink, swim, and surf at the box office? <br /><br />I think TITANIC was a huge success due to the boy-girl factor. Not just the romance but the juggling of stuff appealing to men--special effects gadgetry and violence--and to women--lovey dovery. Thus, everything could be seen in two ways. Tech geeks--mostly male--were delighted by the logistics of the ship and its sinking. The mushy hearts--mostly women--were swept away by the romance of modern knight saving a damsel from the distress of unhappy marriage and man-made ship sinking. <br /><br />Gone with the Wind blew away the competition for the same reason. It was a grand war movie appealing to males and a gushy romance appealing to females. <br /><br />Both movies were elaborate heavyduty male-centric enterprises but were presented with the simplicity of a valentine gift. I have yet to see Titanic because I can't stand Celine Dion. <br /><br />Now, will Avatar break new box office records? It all depends on whether there's enough stuff for the gals. The males--both geeks and macho types--will love the special effects gizmo and things blowing up. But, for most women to love this movie(and tell all their friends abou it), it has to be romantic and gushy-wushy. They also need someone to identify with. GONE had Leigh, TITANIC had Winslet. AVATAR has... tall gangly blue tart with Bo Derek cornrows. Guys, especially those with weird sexual tastes, may go for repeat viewings, if only for the effects. But, will women pay high ticket prices to see it again and again just to identify with a blue giantess? I dunno. <br /><br />And, there is a kind of avant-garde aspect to this movie, which might not have mainstream appeal beyond the initial curiosity over its novelty. Lion King or Jungle Book it aint. <br /><br />Didn't Selznick try to outdo GONE WITH THE WIND with the vastly ambitious but misconceived--and over produced--DUEL IN THE SUN, which tanked at the box-office? <br />Will AVATAR be like Cameron's DUEL?Middletown Girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-65515807072472545282009-12-22T15:04:37.352-08:002009-12-22T15:04:37.352-08:00Don't be ridiculous. The Germans are at the cu...<i>Don't be ridiculous. The Germans are at the cutting edge of gaming CGI, not the Japanese.</i><br /><br />No - the Germans aren't Nordic Aryan enough. There's a nation north of Scandinavia wholly comprised of pure Nordic Aryans that is at the cutting edge of everything, including gaming CGI. Nobody knows about this nation because they are so advanced that they've managed to use technology to completely conceal themselves from the less and non-Nordic Aryan peoples. Once in a while they throw a bone to the less and non-Nordic Aryan peoples and allow them to have some new technology they have developed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-68053989770104450752009-12-22T14:58:19.982-08:002009-12-22T14:58:19.982-08:00Guys in Malibu mansions just don't care about ...<i>Guys in Malibu mansions just don't care about what Joe Average cares about -- how could they?</i><br /><br />Yeah. That darn "Harvard-WASP Mafia"....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com