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Tweak says, "goddamn BEES"

box_in_the_box (box_in_the_box) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-08-28 14:38:00

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creator: steve ditko, theme: objectivism

"If only that Ditko fellow was less subtle and more overt regarding his personal politics ..."
For as much fail as it churns out, Big Hollywood occasionally offers some genuine gems.

I can't stand Objectivism, but I find Steve Ditko's treatment of it irresistibly compelling, perhaps because the comic book medium is a far more appropriate venue for such a Manichean philosophy than the thousand-page rape-justifying tomes that Ayn Rand routinely shat out (it certainly helps that none of Ditko's characters ever barfed up a 70-page screed like John Galt, not to mention the fact that Ditko actually managed to create characters who were more believable as human beings than any of Rand's strawmen or Mary Sues, even when his characters were radioactivity-powered superheroes).

The following four pages constitute "In Principle: The Unchecked Premise," a short story originally published in the 160-page graphic novel Steve Ditko's Static in 1988:

As crudely simplistic as it is, it's still better than either reading or watching the "fireplace scene" between Howard Roark and Dominique Francon in The Fountainhead, but then again, so is getting punched in the crotch until you hemorrhage internally and die.

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Re: An even darker view:

jlroberson
2009-08-29 08:40 am UTC (link)

that's actually a misunderstanding. God recognized there were other gods. What he said was "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." That's the establishment of a monopoly, not a statement he was the only one. He was saying, "I will honor you and your descendants if you hitch yourselves to me, and only me."

And we see, by the way, how well that covenant worked out for Abe's descendants over the centuries.

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	Re: An even darker view: fredneil.livejournal.com 2009-08-29 08:59 am UTC (link)
	So you're saying that all Jews, Christians and Muslims have got it wrong for the past 3000 or so years? Good thing you came along to straighten us out. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: An even darker view: icon_uk 2009-08-29 09:53 am UTC (link)
	Ummm.... no. Judaism acknowledges only "the" God as being a God, there are otehr powerful beings and forces in the universe (Satan being one of them) but none of them are God. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: An even darker view: jlroberson 2009-08-29 08:00 pm UTC (link)
	I didn't say that was Judaism's view(certainly not for most of its history)--I'm saying that was the view when it began. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: An even darker view: runespoor7 2009-08-29 10:17 am UTC (link)
	"There is only one God and Mohammed is His Prophet." This is a common translation of the First Pillar of the Islamic faith. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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