Yes read Karninama

https://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/History_of_Guru_Nanak%27s_travel_to_Mecca

Vishnugupta read

https://www.patreon.com/posts/purpose-of-dasam-23957882

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Sri Gurpratap Suraj Prakash Granth, Guru Gobind Singh Ji Katha, Ain Dooja, Adiaaie (chapter), 23

ਆਯੁਧ ਬਿੱਦਯਾ ਕੋ ਅੱਭਯਾਸਹੁ ! । ਬਨਹੁ ਬੀਰ ਅਰਿ ਸਮੁਖ ਬਿਨਾਸ਼ਹੁ ! ।
ਜਗਤ ਪਦਾਰਥ ਸਗਰ ਪਾਵਹੁ । ਭੋਗਹੁ ਆਪ ਭਿ ਅਵਰ ਭੁਗਾਵਹੁ ।੧੪।
Practise the science of war (Ayudh Bidiya), become warriors and destroy whoever steps to you ! Distribute the goods of the world around, enjoy them and make others enjoy them as well.
ਮਰਹੁ ਜੁੱਧ ਮਹਿਂ ਸੁਰਗ ਸਿਧਾਰਹੁ । ਸਹਿਕਾਮੀ ਸੁਖ ਸਕਲ ਬਿਹਾਰਹੁ ।
ਨਿਹਕਾਮੀ ਹੁਇ ਮੁਝ ਮੋ ਮੇਲ । ਪਰਹਿ ਨ ਜਨਮ ਮਰਨ ਕੋ ਗੈਲ ।੧੫।
In war if you shall die you will go to heaven. Those who do [good] action for their own good [sehkami], they will [still] receive great happiness. The ones who do [good] without any desire, they will be united with Me, they will not be placed in the birth and death cycle [reincarnation] again.
ਕਰੋ ਸ਼ਨਾਨ ਨਾਮ ਅਰੁ ਦਾਨ । ਪ੍ਰੇਮ ਸਮੇਤ ਲਹਹੁ ਕੱਲਯਾਨ ।
ਬਿਦਤ ਖਾਲਸਾ ਪੰਥ ਭਵਿੱਖਯ । ਅਵਨੀ ਰਾਜ ਕਰਹਿਂ ਮਿਲਿ ਸਿੱਖਯ ।੧੬।
Bathe, recite the Name and give charity. The Khalsa Panth will expand in great numbers, all the Sikhs will get together and organize a Kingdom [raj] for the whole world.
ਦਿਨ ਪ੍ਰਤਿ ਤੁਰਕ ਨਾਸ਼ ਕੋ ਪ੍ਰਾਪਤਿ । ਬਚਹਿਂ ਜਿ, ਰੰਕ ਹੋਹਿਂ ਲਹਿਂ ਆਪਤਿ ।
ਕੀਨੇ ਗਨ ਅਪਰਾਧ ਬਿਸਾਲਾ । ਤਿਨ ਕੋ ਫਲ ਹ੍ਵੈ ਹੈ ਇਨ ਕਾਲਾ ।੧੭।
Day by day the Turks will be destroyed, those who remain will be extremely poor and will demise. They have committed great crimes [against humanity], and for these great crimes they shall be rewarded with death.
ਅੰਗ ਸੰਗ ਮੁਝਕੋ ਨਿਤ ਜਾਨਹੁਂ । ਸਦਾ ਸਹਾਇਕ ਅਪਨੋ ਮਾਨਹੁਂ ।
ਨਿਤ ਪ੍ਰਤਿ ਗੁਰਬਾਣੀ ਅੱਭਯਾਸਹੁ । ਕੈ ਸ਼ਸਤ੍ਰਨਿ ਸਨ ਸ਼ੱਤ੍ਰੁ ਬਿਨਾਸ਼ਹੁ ।੧੮।
Recognize my presence by your side at all times, I am constantly protecting you [My Khalsa]. Always recite Gurbani, or take weapons and destroy the enemies.

https://www.manglacharan.com/post/guru-gobind-singh-ji-giving-sermon-to-sangat-suraj-prakash

ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂਜੀਕਾਖਾਲਸਾ।।ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂਜੀਕੀਫਤਿਹ।।

Jatt Sikh.

Anatoly, it’s good to be a good writer. You just saved my life, or a couple of hours or so anyway. Your writeup is so concise, I get the picture without having to watch the picture. Only thing I’d ask is whether they did it in 4K on Netflix? Might be worth looking in on for that for a minute, but to watch this rag, you’d want that two hours of your life back. Kinda like the people that watch an MLB home team loss.

The very best stable genii.

Ask the sun.

The Expanse is much harder sci-fi and the only recent sci-fi series from Hollywood that I can recommend.

human-made engines that generate far more energy than they should according to physical laws

Everything seemed like what you could expect from fusion drives, which is what the humans are using.

It’s the original post that sets the high IQ threshold. Btw, I hear there’s a new Pokemon movie. Any chance you will enlighten us with a review?

You should review “And quiet flows the Don”

Please don’t, Karlin’s “powerful” americanized takes on great Russian literature will give me an aneurysm.

This is a seriously retarded conversation.

If you are so keen on reinstating Sati which btw was never very widespread even in vedic times you should start with the women of your own family.

Since you are a Jat a singularly uncouth and low IQ caste who basically lost most seats in Haryana (their home state) despite being a near majority (LOL!) I know you have a chip on your dumb shoulders against the BJP.

I suggest you leave the complicated thinking to us Brahmins and other upper castes and stick with your traditional occupations of drinking country made liquor and supplying low IQ cannon fodder to the Indian army. Basically your castes contribution to Hindu Dharma is the supply of regiment after regiment of useful idiots.

Top tip: Books need to be read not eaten.

Do you even know what arms control is you dimwit?Sorry I am not going to explain nuclear submarine and ICBM design and operation to a Jat. The scriptures are very clear on this ,knowledge in the hands of an idiot is very dangerous.

In the west they now have movies claiming Negress put a man on the moon!!

This happens because Negroes and low IQ white trash( European equivalent of Jat) now study space technology and think a Negress doing redundant ballistics calculations has as much of a contribution to Apollo 11 as Werner Von Braun

Such misappropriation of achievement is not possible in Hindu dharma.

1500 years ago Aryabhata proved the earth is a sphere and orbits the sun which he postulated was a star. No one goes around claiming this great Brahmin or the ones before him who created the modern decimal number system were Jats/Shudras.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryabhata

It is us his Brahmin descendants that to this day honor his achievements and will put an Indian in space around 2022.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Human_Spaceflight_Programme

Jats as idiot Hindus but proud Hindus nevertheless will on that day get stone drunk,wear shiny shirts and perform bhangra dance on the national highway 8 which passes through Haryana to celebrate.

I’m just glad they’ve begun to see the path to cultural soft power: Flashy, retarded movies. May this be the first of many.

When the pungent aroma of the streets reaches one’s delicate, princely nostrils, believing that reality is an illusion the mind may dispel seems wise.

The greatest pair of tits in space.

I didn’t set the idea that the torque engines were designed to winnow the population – I assumed the idea was just to keep the planet from spinning so they only had to put earth engines on one side.

My take on Wandering Earth:

It’s a competently-made, Chinese Michael Bay movie. Hopefully, if there are ever Three-Body movies they doesn’t get dumbed down to something like this.

— David Pinsen (@dpinsen) February 18, 2019

Not quite. The igniting of the atmosphere was because Earth’s own oxygen atmosphere was intermixed with it. Not all of Jupiter ignited; only the part that mixed with Earth’s. Furthermore, the suicide kamakazi only worked because it ran into the Earth’s fusion beam, blowing it up, else it wouldn’t have kamakazied successfully. Overall, I’d rate it as hard science fantasy – aesthetically hard sci fi, but complete fantasy in reality.

You should take over India and annoint yourself the Thuggee high priest of all Hindustan. Then reinstate sati, chase all dalits out of India and hang anyone not shitting within their designated streets. Retrieve the Sankara stones and sacrifice any anglos and muzzies to Kali Ma as they rightly deserve.

“The British in India will be slaughtered. Then we will
overrun the Muslims. Then the Hebrew God will fall,
and then the Christian God will be cast down and
forgotten. Soon, Kali Ma will rule the world.”

You mean “Soviet” spaceship?

Those Soviets are old-school “No AI on my ship!” (to paraphrase Commander Adama)

It doesn’t. It would be like igniting coal in space.

You can’t even fuse Jupiter’s hydrogen because there isn’t enough mass to attain the required pressure. It would be a slow-motion process in any case, several million years until the things gets going. Unlike this:

It was a good scene though. Also, Captain Tatiana “Tanya” Orlova is the greatest.

You call yourself an intellectual,

Why do you react lol to a man wanting to undo the anglo damage to Hindu Dharma.

I know this is of topic but what do you think of this ‘utu’ commenter. Looking through his comments he comes across as a mentally ill retard.

AK: I don’t disagree.

You should review “And quiet flows the Don”

The movie was popular because special effect movies are popular in China. But they were all American previously, and always a hero saving the world.

The Wandering Earth has no bad guy or evil to fight, no hero to save you. Just the world changing and ordinary people who could fail at their mission doing what they can to find a way out. The message is pretty Chinese at the core.

This movie was seen as the first attempt to fight for a market reserved for Hollywood. Finally move away from “fringe” movies and aim for the big market.

I just don’t understand how any intelligent person could like this movie. This movie makes “Kin Dza-Dza” look like fucking “2001”.

Reminder that 2001 series did turn Jupiter into a star and sacrificed American Hal 9000 so that a Sovok spaceship could escape the ignition.

The Chinese have to problem with personality when they stick to chinesey topics like e.g. wuxia silliness about secret societies or rehashing the Journey to the West.

Seems like soulless quality only comes out when the Chinese are trying to ape western norms and western plots.

Maybe this is more a reflection of what ‘the West’ is like than something Chinese.

I’d disagree.

Rss Bjp are reformist cucks and so are you.

Arms control, caste reservation and Ban on Sati are the three liberal planks.

They will not be touched

The movie was interesting mostly to try to understand why it was so popular. Red Sea was the kind of movie that Americans would have made into the 80’s in the vein of Top Gun or Delta Force, but now China makes those kind of movies. Anyway, the ignition of Jupiter’s hydrogen was explained as Jupiter’s gravity sucked away some 20-30% of the Earth’s atmosphere so that’s what provided the oxidizer to the hydrogen.

(impressive imagery and special effects no doubt)

Most sci-fi movies have problems when it comes to hard science but often not noticed.

A good example is the Death Star in Star War. Even if it has the power output of the sun, it can’t blow up a planet in a split second as in the movie; but one needs 1st yr college level physics and astronomical data to understand why.

But the problem with ‘Wandering Earth’ is too obvious

The plot in Wondering Earth involves installing 1000s of huge rocket engines to push the Earth into another star system and the journey is said to take 2000 yrs at 0.5%(?) of speed of light.

That’s taking the earth as a huge rocket. Now unless if the tech involves complete annihilation of mass to power ‘photon rocket engine'(which is still science fiction more than anything else), it needs to eject huge amount of mass into outer space over 2000 yrs; that’s exactly how rockets work:exchange of momentum. Even if one can ignore the energy source and the mass ejected are magma from deep inside the earth, it’ll still need to empty a significant (>50% I guess) amount of earth mass into outer space and the Earth crust will certainly collapse.

Earth’s mass=5.9 x 10^24 kg–For comparision, china mines something like 3 billion tons(or 3×10^12 kg)of coal/yr

A better plot would be mining the astroids bell to make gigantic space arks to move to another star system
Death star math;it’ll take 580,000 second if the Death star has the output of the sun

Everything in the story do not not have sense but regarding hydrogen – story events starts with particular ball of “burning” hydrogen “burn” much of it hydrogen. nebulas are so extremely sparse so calling it “contain” something is a stretch.

I heard lot of praise about Expense “realism”, and conceptually it what I would like (single fantastic thing in otherwise realistically depicted world) but I could not handle even half of first episode-
” zero g” – hmmm – (5 seconds later) “magnetic boots” – here we go again – ships and drones
accelerating toward “station” – mmmm – cringe speeches on market from Xena – nope

I just don’t understand how any intelligent person could like this movie. This movie makes “Kin Dza-Dza” look like fucking “2001”.
Have you even seen the classics like “Stalker”, “Letters from a Dead Man” or “Solyaris”? Or do you just dismiss them ‘sovok crap’ like so much else?

Did you even see that Russian film “The Ugly Swans” from a few years back? Although it wasn’t amazing, it was certainly far better than “The Martian” and a million times better than this.

Tbh I don’t think you’ve reviewed a single Russian author (and no, Kholmorgorov does *not* fucking count) or film since you started blogging.

..Ok, felt good getting my gerard2 out.

Did you really like this film for what it was? Or just find it interesting from a meta-perspective?
I only saw it because a friend of mine has a Chinese wife, I thought it was absolutely terrible, actually one of the worst films I’ve seen in a long while.

But what distinguishes this from most Hollywood movies is that there are no memorable personalities, no character arcs, no cause for emotional investment into the fate of any of its protagonists.

The same goes for The Three Body problem as well.

Jupiter doesn’t have any oxygen so how does ignition work? So how do you even ignite hydrogen in the first place?

How does a Kamikaze strike igniting hydrogen on Jupiter work. Can some chemist or astrophysicist explain. Let alone a hydrogen explosion that creates a blast wave strong enough to change earth’s orbit. Just how tf does that work?

Jupiter’s Hydrogen being ignited to save a drifting Earth sounds pretty silly as a climax of this plot. Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the cosmos,there are nebulae primarily containing hydrogen that stretch for light years with hundreds of stars within them and it obviously doesn’t ignite because you need an oxidizer to achieve combustion. This is junior school chemistry.

Still will watch tomorrow…

This is not really hard sci-fi. On the Mohs Scale Of Science Fiction Hardness, it is surely closer to Solaris (the Hollywood adaptation) than to Neal Stephenson’s Seveneves. According to one hard science estimate, you’d need to mine 95% of the Earth’s mass to generate the energy needed to get it to its post-solar destination, Proxima Centauri. The Sun’s untimely demise, Jupiter’s “gravitational spike”, and Torque Engines generating enough instant acceleration to generate democidal tsunamis on the planetary tsunamis is all patently absurd.

Nonetheless, there is at least the appearance of attention to Newtonian mechanics, which not something one can say for most Hollywood sci-fi movies.

The cargo transport vehicles are bulky and overgrown with all sorts of manual controls. While this might seem strange to us in the context of a hi-tech 21st century civilization capable of constructing thousands of megastructures, I would argue that this is actually fridge brilliance (if probably unintentional). Vehicles will need to be extremely rugged and have redundant controls in a harsh, rapidly cooling planet that is gradually heading out of the protective blanket of the heliosphere.

That really reminds me of The Expanse series, human-made engines that generate far more energy than they should according to physical laws, but also attention to Newtonian mechanics and functional (vehicle) designs. It is also partially set in Jupiter’s space.

While the Sun going red giant is indeed a few billion years out, the sterilization of planet Earth will begin as soon as 500 million years from now. Long time for humans, not very long in geological terms.

The process begins with carbon dioxide getting trapped in rocks to the point where there is not enough of it to support photosynthesis, and plant life dies. So hard science plot about solar expansion would probably revolve around everybody driving around in SUVs and burning as much coal/oil/natural gas as possible to keep the last remaining conifers alive (plants with different photosynthetic chemistry that can function in low CO2 environments). Also, everybody is a carnivore. This probably won’t be a very politically correct film.

As Arnie would say: “Relax!”

Yep. That was the one. Joan Collins looked damn fine in that! She was around 40 at the time. She was around 50 when she became famous from being in “Dynasty”.

“Three Bodies” was unironically the worst book I’ve ever read.

hey man, my english that bad? 🙂

i haven’t been writing much in English for some time. but i did have good GRE and toefl scores, you know. 🙂

Outland comes to mined, I mean mind.

It’s a drug bust story. Using the visuals from Alien.

Although the writer didn’t get how “artificial gravity” works. The Sheriff’s detention area lacks “artificial gravity” which makes no sense at all. We are on Io!!

But shotguns adequately work in vacuum. Good!

Space is quintessentially boring! Nothing happens there. Unless you are an AI that can slow down its time perception.

A bit. They butchered orbital mechanics for plot’s sake like Khorne berserkers on warp crack.

Remember having read somewhere that science fiction in general under commies in China was some sort of cultural taboo, if not outright banned, but certainly not encouraged or desired trend? Looks like that has changed completely?

Liu worked as an engineer, not as a physician, so his lack of knowledge in “hard” physics is not really his fault. The three Body Problem trilogy is way too complicated and long to be adapted on the big screen ,but a big budget series format could end up being a successful adaptation.

Does Gravity count?

Above AK writes [sic]:

I would argue that this is actually fridge brilliance (if probably unintentional)

At first I chuckled over what I thought was one of the those ‘sounds-like’ unconscious typos … but then I found ‘fridge brilliance’ is actually a thing, indeed involving refrigerators

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FridgeBrilliance

You watch a movie and something about it just seems off, you don’t like it. One night, as you get up for a midnight snack, you open the refrigerator door and the light dawns on you, “This is the real purpose behind this plot!”

Has nothing to do with the light that comes on inside your fridge when you open the door.

This one

Gerry Anderson liked to have his Moonbases (and secret UK-based underground bases) full of competent babes that were at ease living in the #TechnoPatriarchy. Good times.

Not very well known. From what I gather he is the leftist establishment’s chimp who takes potshots at Modi etc..

We have genuinely funny much more popular comedy shows where we ask Muslims on the street questions like who went into space first Yuri Gagarin or Muhammad on a winged horse from the Al Aqsa mosque..and laugh at them squirming.

Well the right just won a landslide victory last month in India so it would be fair to say that India is well on its way to being liberated from the liberals..

Since you are Indian, I’d like to know what is your opinion on that annoying woke Muzzie comedian Hasan Minhaj.

Stupid movie like 99.9% of Bollywood movies.

Though the theme is interesting about a single Sikh regiment that fought to the last man and killed many Afghans instead of surrendering during the Anglo Afghan wars.

Any war the British Empire fought with Muslim countries was generally enthusiastically supported by Hindus/Sikhs given our 1000+ year long conflict with these scum.

In other British Empire wars Indian troops were basically poorly paid mercenaries and behaved exactly as would be expected.

Enough defected during WW2 to form entire regiments allied to Nazi Germany and Japan.

Are all Indian action films filled with so much slo mo ridiculous fights and obnoxious stunts

Review this one:

joking with the bad english btw.

I remember this show from my geeky childhood. Even though the basic scenario itself was fanciful, I thought a lot of the episodes were good and the graphics were very good for the time. What I liked most about “Space 1999” was its depiction of the eerie emptiness of space (like 2001 Space Odyssey).

BTW, Joan Collins was in one of these episodes (one I watched on youtube last winter). She was smokin hot!

The Chinese film industry IS finally becoming a serious and worthy competitor to Hollywood. I have no problem with this.

It was OK. I couldn’t recommend it to anyone. It does indeed show the state of CGI and FX today, which would be impressive if the story and characters were better.

There were several propaganda aspects about collective sacrifice and world government and the folly of individualsm, but they felt more Confucian and historic Chinese more than specific to modern China.

The review is more than fair.

privet. how form comment account here ?

imho, one paricular genius of liu is to realize that a set of uniquely moving stories can be had WITHOUT faster-than-light travel. in the sense that space travel is different from columbus and columbus is different from traveling to state capital.

it’s not really about doing a series of exercises in physics or engineering 101 etc. imho, it’s more about being sentimental facing the strange universe. but even liu himself views his stories from the lens of hard or soft scifi.

I was unable to get more than 15 minutes into this film. It is worse than any 1950s scifi film, which at least have camp value. And then there is the bondage scene in “The Thing.” However, I did like “Red Sea.”

This is not really hard sci-fi. On the Mohs Scale Of Science Fiction Hardness, it is surely closer to Solaris (the Hollywood adaptation) than to Neal Stephenson’s Seveneves.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness

Are there, in your opinion, any really “hard” science fiction movies made by Hollywood?
Hard here means the science is actual science, not technobabble, and the technology is something that is possible to build.
Surely is possible to make great story without FTL, time travel, wizards and vampires.

Anything else than The Martian?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_(film)

So it’s not only *Man vs Asteroid* (Armageddon!!), but *Man vs several problems, each of which would give a Kardashev Type II Civilization pause*. That’s exhausting!

Anyone remember WANDERING MOON, I mean Space 1999? Those non-gothic corridors and clean environments… and nothing beats the elegant and comfy Eagle Space Transporter!

Non space-trucker space diversity is best diversity, but I can’t remember anyone from the Indian subcontinent. And no “Mr Chekovs” either.

this line of scifi subgenre, I might call, drama on the stage of modern theory of cosmology. given liu’s self admitted lack of knowledge in hard sci, one can easily see that his is not very hard scifi, even though he clearly stated that he wants to write hard scifi. but i think the hardness scale is misleading. what he really enjoys writing and I for one love to read is this kind of drama on this kind of stage.

In three bodies, Liu got a sage in an australian aborigine. So, his non-PC is, as you guys might say, more folksy, I guess.

I suspected as much ( didn’t read wondering earth,but this blog and 3BP plots simply don’t add up ),mister Karlin needs to change that sentence .

Wandering Earth is based on a short story of the same name, not the Three Bodies series.

AK: Thanks.

The comparison to The Day After Tomorrow is understandable. But I’d rather see it compared to Interstellar which I think Wandering Earth fell short. I think those movies are less about the End of Ordinary Life but rather about Turning Your Eyes to the Night Sky, and yet, not like Star Wars, or a BBC documentary.

Personally, I really want to watch more movies of this kind.

I doubt this movie is based on ” three body problem ” because the movie plot doesn’t have anything even remotely in common with any of 3 books of Three Body Problem series .

I don’t want to spoil things but in books it’s about invasion of Alpha Centauri species on Earth because their planet surrounded by 3 stars will eventually be pulled apart by gravitational forces ( aka 3 body problem ) … the plot itself goes over a period of time of over 1000 years ,from time of Chinese Cultural revolution to far in future … anyway no moving Earth anywhere .

“Doesn’t say much for Chinese soft power.”

However last year and this year too, some Chinese tv series have doing great internationally, though only in Asian countries, still that says much because Asia used to be glued mostly to South Korean series, however Chinese series such as Story of Yanxi Palace, Meteor Garden (2018 version), A love so Beautiful or Put your head on my shoulder were succesful in countries like Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines or Thailand; Personally i like most by far Yanxi Palace, which happened to be the most googled tv show in 2018 !.

It’s okay man.

You too can admit that the GoT character you most identify with is Ser Jorah Mormont and you too are secretly in love with Khaleesi.

Whoa whoa whoa Anon[339]….you get out of here with all this common sense thinking and rational talk…

Or let us say a film like CRUISING that simply depicted the truth about gay men. That they have sex with 20 men every weekend. A film like CRUISING, which would never get made today but is accurate.

Cruising was a bomb; nobody wants to be subjected to that kind of nasty subject matter, unless there is some ray of light shining through (generally provided by a sympathetic and well-meaning protagonist). However, Cruising dealt with such taboo and unpleasant subject matter that I don’t think anything could’ve made it more palatable to the mainstream.

Tarantino recently has tried to disguise his played-out schtick by setting movies in various parts of the past, usually well before the 70’s, at that.

Tarantino has said that he can’t do a “straight” movie, which is weird because he always says that he loves 70’s movies, which typically were made very earnestly. He always seems very show-offey with his approach to movies, approach to interviews, etc. He loves bombast, obviously, but it’s a pretty churlish sort of bombast, nothing that seems all that resonant or “fun” to anyone with a certain level of emotional development.

The events that inspired Cruising are interesting, to say the least. NY cops in the 70’s were trying to nail down a serial killer who targeted gay men. I’m too lazy right now to look up more specifics, but it’s not hard to find them if you’re curious. It’s quite a story.

It’s about audience demographics. The heavily white audiences of the 70’s and 80’s wanted featured characters to be mostly white; the two-bit criminals with limited screen time could be what was called, correctly back then, “minorities”. “Blaxploitation” movies generally didn’t have a large audience (Walter Hill was forced to use white actors when he cast The Warriors in ’79). The early 90’s was when a change happened WRT movie casting, presumably for two reasons: Gen X-ers were a much less white demographic than the Boomers, and also, the 90’s is when lots of whites became fascinated by black culture, for some reason.

In most of the Dirty Harry movies, the white low-lives are portrayed as being disheveled, ugly, and sleazy (I suppose that also true for the non-white low lives), the obvious exception being the vigilante cops in the second movie. Cunning doesn’t really describe Scorpio, or the hippie gang in part 3, or the gang-rapists of part 4*, or the psycho weirdo with the bad blond dye job in part 5 (funny how the worst movie in the series also has the worst villain). Most movies in the 70’s and 80’s tyically portrayed low-lives as being fairly prole-ish; it’s in the 90’s with Hannibal Lector that the trend toward debonair psychos really took off (reality check: most crime is commited by people with little to no money).

*One of them is a butch woman with an ugly face and even uglier mouth, and even the leader, Mick, has a cruddy hair cut with a small mustache that does him no favors, and it’s not like he dresses like James Bond or anything. It’s funny how these 70’s and 80’s movies tapped into something that’s been confirmed with studies: ugly people commit more crimes.

I always figured that late Boomers (and later generations) came of age in the 1970’s (and subsequent decades) when elite leadership was rapidly becoming more “ethnic” and female, to the point that portraying “our” elite as mostly pallid, thin-nosed, and uptight was utterly ridiculous.

America in general got rapidly less white after 1970, especially after 1990. Ethnic distinctions among white have blurred to some degree. Younger generations of Jews and Catholic whites realize how stupid it is to claim that WASPs have a strong grasp of our culture and institutions, when said WASPs opened their doors up to other whites in the 1950’s and 60’s, and said WASPs then threw open the borders in the 70’s and 80’s.

The prole 90’s culture you describe has affected every ethnic group in the lower-middle class.

Scratch a Russian, find a Dothraki?

But seriously, the Night King is the true hero of this epic.

The Children of the Forest tried to turn him into a weapon ensure their victory over the First Men, but he somehow broke free of their control and turned against his creators, ensuring that humans, not The Children, would inherit Westeros.

From the depths of time he foresaw the hour of greatest peril for his people, the Westeroi (First Men and Andals, obviously one people, hence the profound cultural similarities and ease of intermarriage despite different religions).

He foresaw a time when all the assembled evil of Essos would invade a divided, unprepared realm.

A time when the dragons of accursed Valaria, the depraved sorcerers of Assai, the savage Dothraki bloodriders and the mindless Unsullied slave soldiers, under the leadership of a cruel, vengeful, bloodthirsty queen, would overwhelm a Westeros hopelessly weakened by Wormtongue traitors – traitors who would ignore their sacred obligations to the Gods, their families and their nation, merely to avenge their petty personal grievances.

Patiently, across uncounted eons, he prepared the only possible force large enough, and fierce enough, to meet the needs of The Day.

When the time came, he began to move. He brought the oldest war in Westeros to a victorious conclusion by exterminating the remnants of The Children, whose truly evil nature he knew all too well. He contrived a series of incidents designed to build the heroic stature of the Starks and Jon Snow, so that they would be prepared to do their part for Westeros in the denouement.

Above all, he severely weakened the army of Essos, killing one of the dragons, half of the Unsullied, most of the Dothraki, and several prominent sorcerers of the demon R’hllor.

Having weakened the forces of Essos sufficiently to prevent the conquest of Westeros, the unpleasant task demanded by Necessity was finally complete.

He then presented himself before his chosen successor and allowed himself to be struck down.

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…Davos types are deeply unsatisfied with the outcome. Everybody wanted Dany to be queen, or failing that, at least Sansa. It was supposed to be her turn!

I don’t think that identity manias matter much to the Davos crowd. It is a tool, a method to be used. But if the resulting message would be that ‘change is possible‘, if it encourages disobedience, well, then clearly Dany is not worth it. Sansa was more complicated, and I think as an alternative ending that was possible and within what was desired as a modern myth. They probably didn’t do it, because of the unseemly rush to end it – it would had required 1-2 episodes to tie loose ends with Sansa.

I also don’t think that Bran’s all-seeing surveillance message was accidental – it has been a dream of elites since time immemorial to ‘know everything‘, it makes them feel secure. Bran was an ideal outcome for the oligarchic state. And the assembled oligarchs at the end sitting around discussing ‘naval buildups’, and budgets was priceless. With all the clowning around it was precisely the image that an elite oligarch has as the ideal state of affairs. The clowns always exist to distract – look around, they have been popping up like mushrooms after heavy rain.

hard to say – i think the motivation behind the books (older guy, revenge fantasy) was different from the TV show (younger dudes, standard SJW tropes) so as Martin hasn’t written his ending yet (iirc) i was expecting the show’s makers to end it with the dragon lady as Queen girlpower 1st.

Maybe having the blond, female SJW get murdered is part of the J revenge fantasy.

Canada will eventually recede into the lower 49 as the ice cap melts, similarly to California as a result of earthquakes and oceanic water levels increasing too. Think of it Thorfinnsson, both of your worst nightmares will eventually be taken care of by an ‘act of God’. 🙂