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Apr 21 10 tweets 4 min read
Franz von Stuck - Die Wilde Jagd (1889)

The same year Hitler was born and Nietzsche went mad, the German painter Franz von Stuck painted this depiction of the ancient Germanic god Wotan.
Image Carl Jung on Hitlor as the reincarnation of the Wotan archetype
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Jul 31, 2023 82 tweets 17 min read
I wasn't planning to write a Barbie thread because there is so much similar attention on similar aspects of the film, but I'm bored so I'll summarize my thoughts anyway. Thread on this sublime feminist tragedy: (1/82) On the most shallow surface level, there is of course the joyless Ben Shapiro takeaway: it is a very overtly feminist political screed, hateful, anti-human, against male existence as object, against female existence as subject, unconcealed bitter solipsistic sexual narcissism.