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of a story I quite like that falls in this category. But the whole hero stops being a hero and handing the city to the villain only makes sense where tropes exist independently of their bearing in reality. It only makes sense when heroes and villains are morally immaterial. /2 
The brilliance of Indiana Jones has always been the acknowledgement that the past has real power, and this creates a contradictory tug and pull as Indiana regularly encounters the supernatural, only to see it stuffed away at the final moment. 
But that’s not how any of this works. You break something when you sin, and just because you “repent”, that doesn’t mean you’ll get it back. A man can’t undo an adultery anymore than a woman can’t reclaim her virginity. Thinking otherwise is pure cope, and frankly, immoral. /2
He’s calm, capable, self-assured. He believes in what he’s doing, and he knows exactly what he wants out of life. 
We invent slang. We create short term words with a rapid half-life. Usually vulgar, these words are exclusively used in lowbrow contexts such as memes or the general online discourse. While they often slip out into conversation, they’re frequently used self ironically. /2 
Now I'm usually the first to decry Tradpub and the last to criticize indie, but there is no denying the old power of institutional backing. At the end of the day, culture is mass production, and Tradpub controls many of the levers that make that possible. 2/ 
the more basic point that fiction is about belief. 
The woke is nothing more than a reaction to the failed promises of liberalism. It's a manifestation of a brittle belief system lashing out because it is worried about being called out as hollow--which it is. It has no more teleological promises it can offer. /2 
Up until fairly recently, first contact has been the wet dream of atheists and rationalists everywhere. The idea of finding evidence for alien (sentient) life is another psuedo-religious impulse, a search for meaning in the cosmos. /2 
Deliberate design is a completely pseudo-scientific concept (according to atheists). There’s no evidence for it, and the mainstream consensus is that life was a cosmic accident. But you can’t say anything about a cosmic accident. You can only shrug your shoulders at it. /2 
Now Atheism is a really boring ideology for storytelling. There’s no God, no morality, and no meaning. Everything is an accident, and we can take only the most superficial material interpretations possible. 
The thing to understand about Matt Walsh is that he’s not a zealot. He may have very good Conservative stances on LGBT, abortion, contraception, and so on. But politics is not spirituality. 
While the prospect was exciting at first, it all slowly turned into bloat and cynicism. Writers brought up conflicts for the sake of being morally grey—not for finding the right answers. Characters were killed for shock, not for serving a larger picture. /2 
From season 3 episode 6, The Specter of the Gun finds the Enterprise crew being subjected to an alien simulation designed to prove humans as nothing more than barbaric savages. And because it’s Star Trek, this simulation is a recreation of the Wild West. 
Where did humanity come from? There are two basic answers atheists have to this question. Either we evolved from nothing, or more interestingly, we evolved from a precursor civilization. In this case, the precursors serve as a surrogate God except without Christianity. /2 
But what the neo-pagan fails to see is the religion Tolkien's mythos is embedded in. Tolkien sees the strength of elves and men as fading to sin. So it is a very good thing, that the fate of the world does not lie in men! Tolkien meant his world for a Redeemer 2/ 
The Ring (being part of Sauron’s soul) is basically a phylactery for a demon. To use it is to inherently invite the demonic. It’s an object of the occult. And humanity is not able to use those forces for a greater good because we ourselves are fallen and corruptible. 2/ 
Men love Riza Hawkeye. Why? Because she remains feminine. She’s a valkyrie, not a cocksure girlboss. Riza is a cool, collected, professional killer. And despite inhabiting a masculine archetype, she gets away with it because she never assumes a masculine personality. 2/ 
This scene alone has done tremendous psychic damage to the English consciousness. It's a complete divesting of the sacred, the divine, and the kingship. It makes a mockery of everything those things stand for. While hilarious, it must be the first target in restoring tradition. 
Wokeness is a phenomenon that actually predates Gamergate and the 2016 election, but back then it was organic. It was the promises liberalism offered: equality for all, ever increasing prosperity, an upstanding society based on rationalist morals. 