Next thing you know instead of busting up old statues we will start digging up graves to burn bodies heh.
I laugh at that now, but god damn they continue to surprise me every day.
Never understood the obsession with John Wayne.
He had his moments, but I found him wooden and entirely one noted.
He did what he did ok. Old movies aren't that great to begin with aside from nostalgia factor. Heavy on the melodrama, light on realism. Wayne was ok. My father liked him a lot. I'm fairly indifferent, as opposed to my view on twitter twats looking for something to be offended by. They can fuck themselves with katanas. I don't even know what Mayne is talking about, but I'm sure it's people acting like little cvnts, whining about stuff that doesn't matter instead of doing stuff that makes the world better.Never understood the obsession with John Wayne.
He had his moments, but I found him wooden and entirely one noted.
his acting as genghis khan was subpar at best
He did what he did ok. Old movies aren't that great to begin with aside from nostalgia factor. Heavy on the melodrama, light on realism. Wayne was ok. My father liked him a lot. I'm fairly indifferent, as opposed to my view on twitter twats looking for something to be offended by. They can fuck themselves with katanas. I don't even know what Mayne is talking about, but I'm sure it's people acting like little cvnts, whining about stuff that doesn't matter instead of doing stuff that makes the world better.
Heros aren’t outdated, the term is just overused, IMHO.i think the concept of hero is outdated, and the sooner people come to realize this the better
when someone is considered a hero it makes people more likely to accept what they do without thinking rationally to judge if it is a good or bad choice.
Heroes are symbols, "role" models not, someone to copy but, to inspire. They are better than the 15 minutes of fame some idiots kill for on the intarwebs. I think air Jordan's have been involved with more shitty assholes than John Wayne ever was.i think the concept of hero is outdated, and the sooner people come to realize this the better
when someone is considered a hero it makes people more likely to accept what they do without thinking rationally to judge if it is a good or bad choice.
Regardless if his views were right or wrong, you have to realize that the time he was popular was VERY different than now. The words and attitudes they had, they are not representative of what he would represent now. People need to LET GO of the ideology that everyone has the same opinion as today. It just isn't realistic. That does not mean everyone from that era a bad person, it's just a fact of the environment and social norm. I hope they look back 60 years from now and say "politically correct" people are horrible and the people who support it are the worst people. Go dodgeball!!
But seriously, fucking people who don't respect and learn history. It is what it is...
John Wayne was always a terrible actor.
...wait, what is this about?
It's a bullshit waste of time to collect rightous karma points. Kicking a dead guy's easy, and doesn't take any work. If they spent their time doing something instead of running their mouthes(fingers), they might actually make a real difference in the world.What's wrong with the politically correct movement? You think in 60 years they'll be celebrating outright racism, xenophobia, homophobia, and other forms of outright bigotry? Slams against "political correctness" are nothing more than cries about the inability to openly express bigoted opinions. Nothing more, nothing less.And I say, prove me wrong.
And that, coupled with the rest of your post, makes for some outlandish irony.
But I'll otherwise agree that yes, times and people change. People get obsessed over the notion that mainstream politicians have changed their voting behavior over a period of decades, that they have said certain things 30 years ago and now they say and vote otherwise, like that's the worst sin in the world. Like... really? It's worse to change your views with time and education, as opposed to holding onto those views despite time and education? lol
A lot of things change over the years. We learn more as a species, we find more evidence toward certain fundamental truths, and in my opinion it's only right that politicians adjust course based on new information and based on the changes in their constituency.
That's what I'm saying. I don't even know what the OP is about, I just wanted to jump on the John Wayne bashing train.
It's a bullshit waste of time to collect rightous karma points. Kicking a dead guy's easy, and doesn't take any work. If they spent their time doing something instead of running their mouthes(fingers), they might actually make a real difference in the world.
Not sure how anything of today is surprising. People are revolting against the idea of celebrating anti-heroes from by-gone eras. Why the hell were we commemorating CSA war heroes? In what other worlds does this happen? Pretty sure you won't find any Nazi statues lining German streets. The victors write history, and most of us sane folk clearly don't agree with what the CSA stood for, so why are we expected to honor the statues of their heroes?
Now if it comes to grave robbing, count me against that shit, but I haven't been offended yet by the corrections modern day people would like to make.
If Christians and other fervently religious Americans are going to raise hell about Baphomet statues, do they honestly not see the obvious irony?
It's a bullshit waste of time to collect rightous karma points. Kicking a dead guy's easy, and doesn't take any work. If they spent their time doing something instead of running their mouthes(fingers), they might actually make a real difference in the world.