Posts Tagged ‘Nietzsche’
In which The Gay Recluse ponders a sampling of recent search terms used to find the very pages you are now reading. Note: All search terms listed are in the exact form provided by WordPress.com, which is the host (at least for a while) of this blog. Hyperlinks to relevant posts included. Search: rambo gay […]
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Tags: Andrew Holleran, Brazil, Clemetines, Edward Rothstein, ESPN, Internet, Nietzsche, Picea Abies, Rambo, Roger Cohen, Search, Spruce, Vacant Shell
We turn again to New York Times critic Edward Rothstein — who today wrote about the “irrelevance of gayness” with regard to the fictional wizard Albus Dumbledore –and shake our heads in wonder and dismay: how did such an arrogant, presumptuous blockhead get a PhD? a job with the Times? We must conclude that it […]
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Tags: Albus Dumbledore, Edward Rothstein, Gay, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer
Although we admire the spirit in which Andrew Sullivan — inspired by Nietzsche’s timelessly apt tirade against moral crusaders — compares America to a “very insecure adolescent” we feel the analogy is nonetheless somewhat off the mark. We by contrast would prefer to compare America to a brittle (but dangerous) old man, unwilling to resign himself to the inevitable fate that awaits us all.
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Tags: Andrew Sullivan, Morality, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer