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Re: Counterculture and Western Civilisation
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 29, 2023, 10:32 pm
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Previously:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/counterculture-era/counterculture-and-western-civilisation/msg17162/#msg17162
Why do our enemies keep targeting this particular building?
HTML https://twitter.com/Culture_Crit/status/1674531338223775748
[quote]The intention is to demoralize you.[/quote]
[img]
HTML https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fz0hOFJXsAEK0f0?format=jpg&name=medium[/img]
Only the Western occupiers would feel demoralized, and they
deserve to.
One commenter says:
[quote]Creating a building based on children's drawings is a
comparable analogy.[/quote]
OK, so adult supremacists in general would feel demoralized (and
deserve to).....
Another commenter cites another case of similar
Counterculture-inspired transformation:
[quote]Dallas city hall 1907 vs 1978.[/quote]
[img]
HTML https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fz1XQs1WAAEumyh?format=jpg&name=small[/img]
[img]
HTML https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fz1XQs2WIAI18u0?format=jpg&name=small[/img]
Again, which looks more American? (Which one would we imagine
Grimace being inside? :) )
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Re: Counterculture and Western Civilisation
By: rp Date: August 25, 2023, 2:53 pm
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Example of Jewish corruption of counterculture romanticism:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepless_in_Seattle
[quote]Sleepless in Seattle is a 1993 American romantic
comedy-drama film[3][4][5] directed by Nora Ephron, from a
screenplay she wrote with David S. Ward and Jeff Arch. Starring
Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, the film follows a journalist (Ryan)
who, despite being newly engaged, becomes enamored with a
recently widowed architect (Hanks), when the latter's son calls
in to a talk radio program requesting a new partner for his
grieving father. In addition to Bill Pullman, Ross Malinger, and
Rob Reiner, the film features an ensemble supporting cast also
consisting of Rosie O'Donnell, Gaby Hoffmann, Victor Garber,
Rita Wilson, Barbara Garrick, and Carey Lowell.[/quote]
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_Ephron#Early_life_and_education
[quote]Ephron was born in New York City on May 19, 1941, to a
Jewish family.[/quote]
Come to think of it, is there any notable romantic American
counterculture works that you would recommend?
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Re: Counterculture and Western Civilisation
By: 90sRetroFan Date: August 25, 2023, 6:12 pm
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"is there any notable romantic American counterculture works
that you would recommend?"
My all-time (pun intended) favourite is Quantum Leap Season 2
Episode 22 "M.I.A." (+ additional context in Season 3 Episodes 1
& 2 "The Leap Home" and reprisal in Season 6 Episode 22 "Mirror
Image"):
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Quantum_Leap_characters
[quote]Beth Calavicci (Susan Diol) - Al's first wife and the
only woman he ever truly loved. When Sam meets Beth during a
Season 2 leap, she believes that she is widowed as her husband,
who was serving in military action in the Vietnam war, had been
reported missing in action and presumed dead. Al pressures Sam
into stopping her forming a relationship with another man,
insisting that "her husband" was still alive. Sam figures out
Beth's identity and refuses to fulfill Al's request, deeming it
to be selfish. In his next two leaps, Sam tries to save his own
brother in the Vietnam war. This accidentally thwarts a rescue
attempt that would have rescued Al, causing him to become a war
prisoner. When Al is freed and returns home, he learns that Beth
thought he was dead and had remarried, so he chooses to leave
her alone. Sam is given a chance to put this right, and then
assures Beth that her husband Al is alive and is trying to get
back to her.[/quote]
It is even more powerful if you watched the earlier episodes,
because Al is initially introduced to us as an extreme womanizer
(but otherwise heroic), so we come to understand that it is the
above event which made him cynical. A key point which is missing
from the above description is that Al could have told Sam about
the potential side consequence before Sam took action during the
Vietnam leap, but didn't. It is Sam's memory of this that made
him determined to sacrifice himself to repay Al in the finale.
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Re: Counterculture and Western Civilisation
By: 90sRetroFan Date: October 3, 2023, 2:53 am
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Our enemies academically agree with us on what America is about:
HTML https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2023/10/02/thoughts-on-christ-the-savior-cathedral-in-moscow/
[quote][img width=1280
height=832]
HTML https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/pic2.jpg[/img]
All it takes is one look at this picture to know why American
cannot tolerate Russia.[/quote]
All it takes is one look at this picture to know why I cannot
tolerate Russia either! (If I tried to imagine what a vampire
gathering would look like, it would be exactly the above
picture.)
[quote]a picture so wounding and offensive to the leadership of
the USA
...
America cannot stand for such things.
America will not tolerate such actions. They are contrary to
everything America stands for.[/quote]
Indeed! America stands for Counterculture aesthetics, which are
proudly and intentionally the utter opposite to Western
aesthetics! Contrast the above picture of Russia with the
following pictures of America:
HTML https://www.arch2o.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Arch2O-your-only-ultimate-guide-for-googie-style-7-historic-googie-style-buildings.jpg
HTML https://modtraveler.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Googie-Buildings.jpg
HTML https://www.reviewjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/14903998_web1_GOOGIE-FIRE_031421cs_001-1.jpg
HTML https://travel.home.sndimg.com/content/dam/images/travel/fullrights/2019/3/5/0/CI_SafariPool.jpg.rend.hgtvcom.966.725.suffix/1551879160330.jpeg
HTML https://travel.home.sndimg.com/content/dam/images/travel/fullrights/2019/3/5/0/CI_LinbrookBowl_AnaheimLibraryVisitAnaheim.jpg.rend.hgtvcom.616.822.suffix/1551879125204.jpeg
HTML https://travel.home.sndimg.com/content/dam/images/travel/fullrights/2019/3/5/0/CI_300Bowl_MichaelLundgren.jpg.rend.hgtvcom.966.725.suffix/1551879120179.jpeg
America vs Russia: who are the good guys and who are the bad
guys? It cannot be more obvious!
[quote]Moscow must be levelled and Russia destroyed.
Then Americans can be proud of their country and the values it
stands for.[/quote]
Yes. The true destiny of America, for centuries a victim of
Western colonialism, is to become the destroyer of Western
civilization (including but not limited to Russia) in the most
poetically just way: using the full power of Western weaponry.
[quote]I walked through the restored Cathedral in a state of
exaltation.[/quote]
Because you are a subhuman Duginist. Actual humans reach a state
of exaltation from Counterculture-era American scenery:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejj3i6O9D6A
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Re: Counterculture and Western Civilisation
By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 8, 2024, 10:31 pm
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While on the subject of Sailor Moon soundtrack content:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/counterculture-era/recommended-music-to-listen-to/msg24632/#msg24632
it is worth pointing out that, here too, Western classical
pieces were used on multiple occasions as villain BGMs. In
episodic order:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXHEAP31Wq4
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2KqelUI_fQ
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF34PWE0nzw
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOSXjInBE5Y
For trivia, Krauser's BGM previously covered (starts at 0:38):
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/counterculture-era/counterculture-and-western-civilisation/msg10157/#msg10157<br
/>
[quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz_RjpqRXdY[/quote]
is actually a different part of Dies Irae:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpUHfXQUaug
See also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/homo-hubris/msg15118/?topicseen#msg15118
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/homo-hubris/msg15119/?topicseen#msg15119
Bonus clip:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqOGvVNK4Po
Compare with:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-ugly-48/msg12083/#msg12083
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Re: Counterculture and Western Civilisation
By: 90sRetroFan Date: March 28, 2024, 7:03 pm
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HTML https://culturecritic.beehiiv.com/p/lost-american-beauty
Which looks more American?
[quote][img]
HTML https://media.beehiiv.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80/uploads/asset/file/078855fc-dd49-4f69-bf42-b7d8ff954721/kansas.jpeg?t=1711535012[/img][/quote]
[quote][img width=1034
height=1280]
HTML https://media.beehiiv.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80/uploads/asset/file/c43d6464-cd34-4795-83ab-01548c2e9e84/kansas2.jpeg?t=1711536847[/img][/quote]
Hint:
[quote]Sir Christopher Wren, a leading British architect of the
17th century, said that public buildings are “the ornament of a
country”.[/quote]
Which is precisely why the US cannot claim to be American if it
listens to Wren. But of course Culture Critic does not want the
US to be American:
[quote]The misguided artistry of modernism isn’t the only thing
eroding American cities. There’s a far more deeply ingrained
factor of American identity that is destroying beauty:
efficiency.
...
Ironically, in its breakneck pursuit of efficiency, Kansas City
actually sacrificed what would today be some of its most
profitable real estate. The downtown buildings, had they not
been demolished, would be worth around $655 million today.
Even while brutalism’s artistic influence (and that of its ugly
cousins, modernism and postmodernism) slowly fades, efficiency
continues to reign. Fast food drive-thrus show no signs of
slowing down. And with housing and property prices leaping
upwards, there is little expendable room in budgets for
buildings that are anything more than functional.[/quote]
Western occupiers such as Culture Critic want the US to look as
un-American as possible:
[quote][img width=1280
height=1023]
HTML https://media.beehiiv.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80/uploads/asset/file/4a41b463-579b-47bb-80b3-506054cd825d/buffalo.jpeg?t=1711535848[/img][/quote]
[quote][img width=992
height=1280]
HTML https://media.beehiiv.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80/uploads/asset/file/150fa825-f90c-468f-b30b-f8999bc48cc0/deco.jpeg?t=1711538248[/img][/quote]
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Re: Counterculture and Western Civilisation
By: 90sRetroFan Date: April 13, 2024, 7:44 am
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Ridiculing Western energy sources:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8Wk79i1gcg
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Re: Counterculture and Western Civilisation
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 6, 2024, 3:43 pm
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Our enemies notice the difference between countries which
experienced the Counterculture and countries which did not:
HTML https://vdare.com/posts/russia-israel-have-immigration-patriot-leaders-why-not-anglosphere
[quote]The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs plans to issue
migrants with a document certifying their identity in place of
their national passports … according to this draft law, the
police will be able to detain anyone, seize their documents, and
prosecute them … A study showed that people who do not look
Slavic are twenty times more likely to be stopped than people
who do.
...
HTML https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/06/27/how-russia-plans-to-make-life-hell-for-migrants-a85544
...
As I noted in Vladimir Putin—Immigration Patriot a ZeroHedge
story reported
There have been widespread reports of mass deportations of
Muslim migrants from Russia
...
I also observed
This put me in mind of a campaign we conducted over a decade
ago culminating in Netanyahu For President! (4)
When Egypt’s President Mubarak fell in early 2011, Israel
was rapidly faced with an existential problem: an accelerating
influx of black Africans claiming to be refugees. Israel is the
only white country with an African land border. Israel could
have easily been swamped …
Netanyahu acted immediately with courage and decision … He
rapidly had a wall built which was a total success. He then
launched a vigorous deportation campaign…
There must be a reason why Russia and Israel can produce leaders
who care about their nations, while the U.K. and the USA are
cursed with rulers who despise them.[/quote]
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Re: Counterculture and Western Civilisation
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 13, 2024, 3:47 am
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Clinton quotes provided by our enemies:
HTML https://www.amren.com/news/2019/08/a-bloody-gringo-backlash-to-aztlan/
[quote]President Bill Clinton in 2002 had said he believed “an
America without a white majority is a worthy destiny.” Clinton
had told a small gathering of black columnists that, “Along with
our founding, which was an act of genius, and the freeing of
slaves in the Civil War and the long civil rights movement, this
will arguably be the third great revolution of America, if we
can prove that we literally can live without having a dominant
European culture.”
In a June 13, 1998 speech to the students at Portland State
University, Clinton said, “Today, largely because of
immigration, there is no majority race in Hawaii or Houston or
New York City. Within five years there will be no majority race
in our largest state, California. In a little more than 50 years
there will be no majority race in the United States. No other
nation in history has gone through demographic change of this
magnitude in so short a time.” Students applauded Clinton’s
remarks.[/quote]
Those were the optimistic times.....
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Re: Counterculture and Western Civilisation
By: rp Date: November 5, 2024, 6:27 pm
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HTML https://davidbuckingham.net/growing-up-modern/children-of-the-revolution-the-hippy-counter-culture-the-idea-of-childhood-and-the-case-of-schoolkids-oz/childhood-and-the-counterculture/
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