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h out of it for a comfortable retirement she then has to depend on social security in her golden years all the small business owners i know a considerable number make an explicit point of doing their damnedest to sock away enough that when they retire they don t have to live on beans and cornbread where did julia s profits from her business go did government take them all away leaving her with nothing of her own to live on it would seem so was that a good trade worthy of her sacrificing her independence in order to batten off others including other julias martin zimmerman a counterfactual 22 april 2012 in topical 2 comments whatchu doin hyar boy some years ago my boss and i were on the way home from a business trip and decided to stop for the night at the home of a mutual friend who lived in a gated community in sacramento some time around midnight i woke wanting a cigarette and a short walk so i went outside a few minutes later i was accosted by the security guard employed by the homeowners association what was i doing there i responded without excitement holding my hands in plain sight and open i approached the rent a cop with a casual gait i m ric locke i told him my boss and i are visiting at address that s our van with texas tags sitting in front i just came out for a smoke and a short walk he asked to see my id and i shrugged and showed him my driver s license strictly speaking he didn t have the authority to demand id but i thought then and think now that since he asked politely and had an obvious valid concern showing him id was a reasonable thing to do he handed it back apologized for bothering me and said they d had some recent break ins we discussed the matter casually for a few minutes and parted amicably and i went back in and went to bed the parallel should be obvious what if instead of acting furtive and trying to get away trayvon martin had recognized that the other residents of the community might have a valid concern he might have approached george zimmerman keeping an unthreatening pose and said hi i m trayvon martin we re visiting family at address and my little brother and i wanted some skittles so i walked down to the convenience store to get them what would the likely result have been from what we know and observe of the character of zimmerman it s very likely that his suspicion might well have turned to concern especially when he discovered that trayvon s little brother was home alone people are entitled to visit one another and the simple truth would have provided trayvon martin with all the justification he needed to convince zimmerman that he wasn t there for any nefarious purpose zimmerman might still have been suspicious but it would have been easy enough for him to check with the residents when they got home that would have confirmed martin s story in the meantime it would be sufficient to see martin admitted to the home by someone already inside taking note that although it looked all right it might be best to check further later on of all the sad words of tongue or pen the saddest are these it might have been it didn t happen that way and somebody got dead because it didn t why didn t it happen like that there are a lot of reasons but they eventually boil down to somebody told trayvon martin he couldn t do it that way that they were out to get him and the thing to do was break contact and get away trouble is trying to break contact is exactly the behavior a suspicious person would see as requiring additional suspicion martin had the right to be there but he didn t act like he did he acted exactly like someone would act who was casing the joint looking for opportunities for petty theft and he acted like that because somebody several somebodies no doubt told him that was the right thing to do they lied george and trayvon 1 april 2012 in topical leave a comment we didn t have lynch mobs where i grew up thanks to an accident of history but my relatives and neighbors knew the principle and discussed it if you should want one this is how it s done the good news is not enough people seem to be paying attention for it to reach critical mass the bad news is that s clearly pissing the leftoids off enough that we need to watch closely as they try more and more extremes megaflops without transistors 31 march 2012 in personals and softballs topical 5 comments schumpeter at the economist analyzes the failure of john carter the film and comes up with three rules for making a total failure first slaughter a sacred cow second mix oil and water third produce a genuinely awful product now in fact from looking at people s reactions i don t think you can fairly say that the movie is a genuinely awful product there are lots of people who ve said they enjoyed it the first two rules have some genuine content but not in the way our columnist describes them take them turn em around a bit and you have a real insight one way to make a megaflop is to start with something utterly dependent upon the cultural and social factors of an earlier time factors you don t even know exist let alone understand and try to interpret it in terms of current mores there is no way in hell the result can possibly make sense either to the original audience or to today s and all it will be is puzzling and disappointing a princess of mars is written in first person as the intensely personal memoir of a character presented as an instance of an archetype familiar in burroughs s day but almost entirely absent from current ideas to present john carter as a civil war veteran is true but misses the point he describes himself as a fighting man and if you don t know what that means and most of you and damn near everybody in hollywood have no teeniest hint of a clew the whole story is just a mass of unconnected violent events if that s all there was to it burroughs s audience wouldn t have grabbed the narrative and held it in their minds there were lots of pulp writers in that day what most of them wrote was as simplistic and undriven as any of the drivel put out today and most of them are utterly forgotten except for a few academics who might dig them out of dusty archives why did a princess of mars resound and become beloved where the rover boys and similar stories much more popular in their day than burroughs ever was descended into obscurity answer in many subtle ways burroughs presents the fighting man on his own terms and subverts the notion the result is fascinating in its own terms with the sfx being a sideline the fighting man as an archetype was almost the last holdover of the millenium long european wars he is an effective dealer and organizer of violence and is proud of his laboriously acquired skills and knowledge the overlying society admires him in many ways as an expert in his profession but regards him with some suspicion because now that he s out of work he may become a danger both he and the society he lives in recognize that he is restrained by the ways he was taught summarized in the word honor john carter in the introduction to the book chafes at those restraints but understands that they are necessary that the society he lives in has no use at the moment for his talents and abilities the which talents and abilities can and would make him a real danger if he were to forget his honor so far as to employ them his transubstantiation to mars where he can freely indulge himself in the joy his very word often repeated in the books of fighting and killing his opponents is a dream come true for him in present day society the only referent we have for the fighting man is the caricature of soldiers presented by the left such people are to be medicated into submission at the very least and especially among the preening progressives so common among the elite a person fighting for a wrong cause cannot be taken as having virtues of any sort in burroughs s day the fighting man was still honored though perhaps more in theory than in substance valor in and of itself was seen as a good thing no matter which side the valorous individual had taken when valor was exhibited in that connection it is worthwhile to point out that john carter is a confederate veteran when the books were written it was still taken for granted in most circles that such people could have been and often were brave and honorable even though they were on the wrong side and fighting for a cause that was even then considered villainous so carter in his own eyes a good guy who is unfortunately out of work in his chosen profession and doesn t care to learn another finds himself on mars where he is presented with a series of challenges that exactly match his skills and talents he takes advantage of that and is extremely pleased by it despite the fact that it results in danger and privation then he meets dejah thoris and almost more importantly sola the green woman to a modern person steeped in feminism dejah thoris and sola are very nearly nonentities they are slaves in a slaveholding culture constrained to act in certain ways by the assumptions of that culture which they fully accept though they may resent their status they understand it in burroughs s day the memory of slavery was yet green and sola and dejah thoris are fairly accurately portrayed and that s where the story goes off the rails in then contemporary terms and the reason it caught people s imaginations sufficiently to be preserved when much of the other adventure fiction of that day has been lost carter too sees them as nonentities in the beginning though on completely different terms than the way a modern has to see them sola is a servant to be ordered about without expecting questions dejah thoris is a game token to be carried back to her parents for an expected reward like the flag in a paintball game neither of them is a person to be interacted with soul to soul but that s not the way it works out sola first begins mutating into yet another instance of the n sidekick like friday in robinson crusoe dependable but lacking her own motivations it doesn t take long though for carter to realize that sola has an agenda of her own and that she helps him not out of any obligation as a lesser being serving the greater but as a way of furthering her own goals woola is unthinkingly subservient and helpful sola is not she s a thinking being and if at any point carter s goals don t lead toward her own she ll abandon him like a used hankie in fact she does so at least once that in burroughs s day was a startling subversion of a common trope and people read on to see where he d go with it it is against that background that carter encounters dejah thoris at first she is merely a game piece somebody to be rescued for the reward which may include her person in marriage the rules of honor on mars echo those on earth and under those rules for carter to take advantage of her person sexually although that s never mentioned directly it s omnipresent in then understandable code we now find hard to interpret is wrong dishonorable carter being honorable accedes to that requirement despite strong physical attraction and plenty of opportunity and proceeds to rescue the princess in much the same way as he would seek to take advantage of any other treasure trove again though it doesn t work out that way dejah thoris turns out to be smarter than he is and much better versed in the ways of her society she brings him up short at several points and even abandons him at considerable cost to herself when his proposed course of action can only bring disaster in her society s terms she knows what she s doing and knows that he doesn t and that again subverts the then prevailing trope pauline having been rescued from peril is supposed to throw herself upon the arms of her rescuer dejah thoris is no pauline she starts out that way when it doesn t appear that the result will be rejoining with her family she likes carter and would be content to be his mate as a commoner but when it becomes clear that her rescuer is determined to go all the way back to helium with his game flag she demurs and makes that demurral real it is that character interaction and others along the same line that made a princess of mars stick in the minds of its first readers who placed in the pantheon and have referred to it ever since when most of its contemporary fiction has been forgotten it is in reality a fairly powerful story of how honor and faithfulness can be achieved under difficult conditions and how a character can grow and change to meet new challenges without recognizing it himself as narrator carter never drops the fighting man trope even when he is clearly acting in violation of that ideal all of which is why i haven t seen the movie and won t given modern ideals it is inevitable that carter must be flawed an apologetic semi warrior who sees his abilities as somehow shameful and tries to minimize them and that dejah thoris must be a spunky feminist who takes over the action against those ideals none of what happens in the book makes any sense whatever it s just a bunch of swordfights and jumping through hoops with no overarching narrative which is why the filmmaker had to drag in therns and the life after death scam and get that mostly wrong too in order to provide some sort of plot that he could process into a sequence of events in a literary sense the whole thing s a tragedy on the same order as starship troopers and for the same reasons the filmmaker was simply and categorically incapable of understanding what the story is about of course for all his flaws voerhoven is a good filmmaker and the resulting movie is worth watching so long as you realize that it is emphatically not the story heinlein told john carter doesn t rise to that standard and flops on its own terms tip jar donations via paypal hit it folks fx calvin eyes puuleeeez you don t know many people who need it more when i posted august 2026 m t w t f s s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 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