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2022-09-04 -Great Cultural Revolution

Why Are Leftists Obsessed With Destroying Hero Culture?

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Posted by Besoeker 2022-09-04 04:12|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

You must revere and worship only the State. The State will carry you.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-09-04 04:30|| 2022-09-04 04:30|| Front Page Top

#2 You must revere and worship only the State. The State will ~~carry~~ drag you.

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The picture is missing the drag mark...

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2022-09-04 05:56|| 2022-09-04 05:56|| Front Page Top

#3 The ultimate paradox is the fact that, if there's not something better after this life, then leaving this life is still an improvement.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-09-04 07:13|| 2022-09-04 07:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Not against heroes. They love Marx, for example. Or maybe they skip heroism and go straight to sainthood?

Posted by Angstrom 2022-09-04 12:28|| 2022-09-04 12:28|| Front Page Top

#5 There's a vast gap between actual saintliness and canonization.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-09-04 12:32|| 2022-09-04 12:32|| Front Page Top

#6 The left wants a bunch of gray, mindless robots who watch MSNBC and CNN; not heroes or leaders,

Posted by JohnQC 2022-09-04 13:02|| 2022-09-04 13:02|| Front Page Top

#7 Horatio Jackson: Six enemy cannon and rescuing...

Functionary: Ten.

Horatio Jackson: Ten of our men held captive by The Turk.

Heroic Officer: Yes, sir.

Horatio Jackson: The officer about whom we've heard so much.

Heroic Officer: I suppose so, sir.

Horatio Jackson: Always taking risks far beyond the call of duty.

Heroic Officer: I only did my best, sir.

Horatio Jackson: Have him executed at once.

Soldier: Yes, sir. Come along.

Horatio Jackson: This sort of behavior is demoralizing for the ordinary soldiers and citizens who are trying to lead normal, simple, unexceptional lives. I think things are difficult enough as it is without these emotional people rocking the boat.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-09-04 17:43|| 2022-09-04 17:43|| Front Page Top

#8 /\ Another fan of The Adventures of Baron Munchausen(1988). This reminds me of some Fantasy authors, Stephen Brust comes to mind, that deliberately wrote a "non"-Hero 'heroic fantasy'. Never understand that idea... if I want to read books like that I read books on History.

I also wonder if the Leftists are so involved in the Totalitarian View, 'We are all faceless cogs in the almighty State', that they don't want anybody that is an elite.

Posted by magpie 2022-09-04 18:52|| 2022-09-04 18:52|| Front Page Top

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