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...Short is too good a writer to simply dismiss Pol Pot as an evil aberration. But his alternative argument?that brutality is somehow hardwired into Cambodian society?is not scholarly enough to be convincing. He makes his case largely by an unblinking focus on horror: children decapitated, lynch mobs eating their victims' fried livers, and so on. This attempt to place Pol Pot's wickedness in a wider psychohistorical context feels misguided rather than malicious, although Cambodian readers might feel differently...
...with puppets. Unlike most politically-motivated comedies these days, there’s no clear slant towards either the left or the right. Team America is a throwback to the kind of movie that casts the establishment as the good guy and everyone who goes against them are either evil or woefully misinformed. While, to many, such a theme may seem ironic, what makes this movie so pertinent and vital is the fact that this unthinking good-vs.-evil mentality may be more widespread than we’d like to believe. On the other hand, this movie also tells...
Star Wars universe, Lucas imagines a world of chaos and political upheaval, that could be, yes, similar to the world of today. SW2:AOTC will leave you shaken, particularly due to the parallels it finds between contemporary American politics and the ever-encroaching designs of the super-evil, ultra-bad and mega-nasty imperialistic Sith warlords, who possess an uncanny command of the Dark Side. The relationship to nuclear proliferation that Lucas draws in this respect is stunningly insightful, and terrifying in its implications...
...could you ever be evil?” they would ask him, using one of sadomasochists’ favorite word plays. Within the scene, evil—like submission, dominance and kink—is a good thing. Sadomasochists like to reclaim “bad” phrases as good ones...
What’s more, all the casual fans that rooted against the “Evil Empire” and for the underdog Sox won’t be interested anymore. They’ll cheer on those lovable losers, the Cubs, or lose interest in baseball altogether. It’ll be the death of Red Sox nation, and an event that energized the entire student population in a way second to only Harvard-Yale will be lost...