Urgh. Yes. Completely agree. Good literature is not interested in sorting everyone into groups of humanity so much as exploring a greater experience, to my mind. I can get on board with a man writing 200 years ago just as well than many things written now. I am so sick of the coddling of the mind and the artist. And since when did artists have the same politics as mainstream consumer big industry? Weren't they supposed to be interested in maintaining creative freedoms, challenging things? I guess they think they are. Else they're stifled silly by the current political landscape. Everything now is jacketed in bright idiotic colours that betrays an equal safety going on within the book. Every year the number of new releases interesting me reduces and it's been barely one this past. Great chat. Thanks for the Aliens video :)
I just talked with my wife about this. I just read a book where the author described how everyone looked to clunking setup a shock moment (ie “I cannot believe that a person that looks like that can sound intelligent!) It came across very bigoted and closed minded. In contrast in the Gulag Archipelago (one of my favs) peoples appearances are used as a window into a deeper story about said people. The outward appearance is not the whole story.
Oh my god, ur channel is amazing. I swear you are going to blow up. My favorite comedian has all his premises that have to do with the human condition. And I love media that takes its time to get to the core of the human condition. It's consistent with popular beliefs in the modern-day. but it also practices them! Great stuff.
I had to stop accepting books too. Mostly because, for a little while there, there were a lot of them and I couldn’t keep up. One reason I couldn’t keep up is for similar reasons you mention here. I love Aliens too! I first saw it as a kid at a drive in theatre, of I still go to these days. It completely blew my mind. Great discussion!
I just get so tired of authors playing stories safe so they don’t get canceled. There’s no room for real uncensored creativity because it would be offensive. Everything has to have representation of every gender, sexual orientation and race (even when those things have nothing to do with the story). Everyone is a victim and a generation addicted to trauma porn is now taking over entertainment.
most "modern"/newer books have disappointed me and I don't like the trends/agendas/whatever is going on. I'm leaning more towards biographies and other nonfiction books.
SAME. It is really disappointing honestly. I can't pick out a new book without discovering an agenda (or whatever you like to call it) within fifty pages. I'm just over it. Give me good, timeless stories. Let me know if you come across any good nonfics. I'm reading a fun one on Teddy Roosevelt right now and also finished one about a guy who stole feathers from a museum-sounds boring, actually pretty crazy :P
@@outofthebex both of your books sound very interesting. I hope you'll do a review on them. My son and I started a Teddy Roosevelt book (Morning on Horseback), but so far it's more about his parents and we set it aside for a bit. Have you read Midnight in Chernobyl, Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War by T.J. Stiles, or An Artist in Treason? I've read these this year and all three surprised me and I learned a lot.
Theres a great documentary about the making of alien where they mention that the characters were written without assigning genders. Ripley was only made a woman after the fact.
Urgh. Yes. Completely agree. Good literature is not interested in sorting everyone into groups of humanity so much as exploring a greater experience, to my mind. I can get on board with a man writing 200 years ago just as well than many things written now. I am so sick of the coddling of the mind and the artist. And since when did artists have the same politics as mainstream consumer big industry? Weren't they supposed to be interested in maintaining creative freedoms, challenging things? I guess they think they are. Else they're stifled silly by the current political landscape. Everything now is jacketed in bright idiotic colours that betrays an equal safety going on within the book. Every year the number of new releases interesting me reduces and it's been barely one this past. Great chat. Thanks for the Aliens video :)
pro trick : watch movies on flixzone. Me and my gf have been using them for watching lots of of movies recently.
@Jayden Callan yea, have been using flixzone} for months myself :D
I just talked with my wife about this. I just read a book where the author described how everyone looked to clunking setup a shock moment (ie “I cannot believe that a person that looks like that can sound intelligent!) It came across very bigoted and closed minded. In contrast in the Gulag Archipelago (one of my favs) peoples appearances are used as a window into a deeper story about said people. The outward appearance is not the whole story.
Oh my god, ur channel is amazing. I swear you are going to blow up. My favorite comedian has all his premises that have to do with the human condition. And I love media that takes its time to get to the core of the human condition. It's consistent with popular beliefs in the modern-day. but it also practices them! Great stuff.
I had to stop accepting books too. Mostly because, for a little while there, there were a lot of them and I couldn’t keep up. One reason I couldn’t keep up is for similar reasons you mention here.
I love Aliens too! I first saw it as a kid at a drive in theatre, of I still go to these days. It completely blew my mind.
Great discussion!
I just get so tired of authors playing stories safe so they don’t get canceled. There’s no room for real uncensored creativity because it would be offensive. Everything has to have representation of every gender, sexual orientation and race (even when those things have nothing to do with the story). Everyone is a victim and a generation addicted to trauma porn is now taking over entertainment.
most "modern"/newer books have disappointed me and I don't like the trends/agendas/whatever is going on. I'm leaning more towards biographies and other nonfiction books.
SAME. It is really disappointing honestly. I can't pick out a new book without discovering an agenda (or whatever you like to call it) within fifty pages. I'm just over it. Give me good, timeless stories. Let me know if you come across any good nonfics. I'm reading a fun one on Teddy Roosevelt right now and also finished one about a guy who stole feathers from a museum-sounds boring, actually pretty crazy :P
@@outofthebex both of your books sound very interesting. I hope you'll do a review on them. My son and I started a Teddy Roosevelt book (Morning on Horseback), but so far it's more about his parents and we set it aside for a bit.
Have you read Midnight in Chernobyl, Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War
by T.J. Stiles, or An Artist in Treason? I've read these this year and all three surprised me and I learned a lot.
I agree with you 100%!
Theres a great documentary about the making of alien where they mention that the characters were written without assigning genders. Ripley was only made a woman after the fact.
Glorious. I would love to watch that doc.
Interesting!
Yes! Yes! Yes!
Heck yeah Sigourney Weaver!