I had a dream where I had a literature advisor. She was saying that I'd really have to lay into Hemingway to do the work.
I got this idea. You know when a pimp suggests he'll give a necklace to a popular hooker. If you snicker along side the pimp, then you continue to support the exploitation of women.
There's a kind of line. You accept that exploitation is part of the world, and you work with that system. Or you work against that system.
Waking up the thinking continues.
When you look at the negative side of Hemingway, you cross the divide. He goes from someone who articulated male desire and chivalry, to someone who didn't adequately credit Fitzgerald for editing The Sun Also rises, or credit Sherwood Anderson for giving him his break. You look at his shabby treatment of his family once they needed him as a rescuer. You look at the way he just moves on from women.
The disillusioned veil falls away, and you see a very flawed human, who was very popular and many men like to read him. He created a distinctive style and lived interesting experiences so that he could write about them.
Then there is Nick Miller, the character on New Girl. He decides he needs to write like hemingway, and so he gets drunk at the zoo. He's become a caricature of a hard drinking big game hunter. Like one of Donald Trump's sons.
Either you are fighting for the equality of all, or you are not. You can't just say that that is how the world work. If you say that you have already chosen a side, and have given up on equality for all. You might say equality is something you have to fight for within a system, but it is not part of the total system.
People in America aren't going to say they want equality for all, they will be afraid they will be brought in front of Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activity Committee. Never mind that Joseph McCarthy wasn't on that committee. That lead to the Hollywood Blacklist. That trauma in the American psyche lingers over America that ended in 1957.
Who owns the roads? The Americans do. That is communism. Every country is a mixture of communism and capitalism. When you sell the schools and prisons to the highest bidder, that is a move towards capitalism. Most people see primary education as not an inherently capitalistic situation, don't want people making money off of it. Plus the money comes from the government. Reagan and Thatcher headed these movements.
Platform cooperatives are the solution for people who want to share the wealth with the workers. There are no laws that prevent it in America, and they are a business move towards communism.
Hemingway was fighting the fascism of a right wing dictator. The right always believes it will take a dictator to install a socialist president like Bernie Sanders. When he gets democratically elected, they will shit their pants and act like the democrats did with Trump, and do everything to subvert the administration. These divisive times will not end until after that, when we decide we collectively want more moderates and less mishegoss in government.
I got this idea. You know when a pimp suggests he'll give a necklace to a popular hooker. If you snicker along side the pimp, then you continue to support the exploitation of women.
There's a kind of line. You accept that exploitation is part of the world, and you work with that system. Or you work against that system.
Waking up the thinking continues.
When you look at the negative side of Hemingway, you cross the divide. He goes from someone who articulated male desire and chivalry, to someone who didn't adequately credit Fitzgerald for editing The Sun Also rises, or credit Sherwood Anderson for giving him his break. You look at his shabby treatment of his family once they needed him as a rescuer. You look at the way he just moves on from women.
The disillusioned veil falls away, and you see a very flawed human, who was very popular and many men like to read him. He created a distinctive style and lived interesting experiences so that he could write about them.
Then there is Nick Miller, the character on New Girl. He decides he needs to write like hemingway, and so he gets drunk at the zoo. He's become a caricature of a hard drinking big game hunter. Like one of Donald Trump's sons.
Either you are fighting for the equality of all, or you are not. You can't just say that that is how the world work. If you say that you have already chosen a side, and have given up on equality for all. You might say equality is something you have to fight for within a system, but it is not part of the total system.
People in America aren't going to say they want equality for all, they will be afraid they will be brought in front of Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activity Committee. Never mind that Joseph McCarthy wasn't on that committee. That lead to the Hollywood Blacklist. That trauma in the American psyche lingers over America that ended in 1957.
Who owns the roads? The Americans do. That is communism. Every country is a mixture of communism and capitalism. When you sell the schools and prisons to the highest bidder, that is a move towards capitalism. Most people see primary education as not an inherently capitalistic situation, don't want people making money off of it. Plus the money comes from the government. Reagan and Thatcher headed these movements.
Platform cooperatives are the solution for people who want to share the wealth with the workers. There are no laws that prevent it in America, and they are a business move towards communism.
Hemingway was fighting the fascism of a right wing dictator. The right always believes it will take a dictator to install a socialist president like Bernie Sanders. When he gets democratically elected, they will shit their pants and act like the democrats did with Trump, and do everything to subvert the administration. These divisive times will not end until after that, when we decide we collectively want more moderates and less mishegoss in government.
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