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A powerful modern archetype for this is the first Black Panther Marvel movie, where Spoilers below—don’t keep reading if you don’t want the movie spoiled: Killmonger the villain is truly a villain whose methods of achieving his goals are deplorable (giving guns and weapons to... One of my Pieces to Discuss
Eloquent Violence By Nikki R. W. Phillips B.A. August 6, 2025 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16993634 https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4720-5551 nikkirphillips@gmail.com Written while in conversation with Claude Sonnet 4.6 by Anthropic Eloquent Violence © 2025 by... - annabeth...
It's too intimidating for men to be men
Alright, here’s one of my most controversial opinions, and I’m gonna try to take the filter off as much as possible: Feminism has played out as retribution instead of solution. The Barbie movie is an entirely thorough example of what I’m talking about.... Was the movie seeding the coming threat of an AI take over?
Was it teaching us to fight back against it? And now that time has caught up with the movie itself, will everyone against DATA CENTERS be labeled mentally ill as a Go-To in order to excuse what they do?... I love the quotes you included here. I find that the ancient philosophies have so much to teach us. Contemporary ideals are often led by consumerism and I can see how we are fed ideas to keep us buying, wanting and longing instead of moving forward and striving in our... - Godless Guru...
It is thought, not necessarily by me in the same way, that we are music. The 'tension chqrge' singular life paradigm is demonstrated by music (from people, not machines) is what comprises the finest symphonies and the simplest 'point-counterpoint' duets.... - xander...
- annabeth...
Where do you see the synthesis in the Barbie movie? Maybe her convo with god and choice to leave the Barbie realm to enter the human realm? I was thinking about how in Barbie realm the women used manipulation and trickery to take all the homes and power and then just told the men...