Why does geek "culture" insist on embracing these escapist, fictitious products of commercialism when there are true examples of warrior culture? Why not learn Maori, Kiowa, or Assata Shakur? Embrace reality, you lazy pathetic couch-potatoes! Television is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Because a thinking person prefers his idealized heroes fictional. As for his non-fictional heroes, he prefers them non-idealized.
George Washington was a nasty piece of work, a shallow, underhanded, social climbing blockhead. The cool kids (upper class military snobs) condescended to him because he was obviously a pathetic, fawning provincial jackass. Finally he got so fed up with the aristocratic system he turned his back on it, and became a better man for it. He learned how to operate in the world of r
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Because a thinking person prefers his idealized heroes fictional. As for his non-fictional heroes, he prefers them non-idealized.
George Washington was a nasty piece of work, a shallow, underhanded, social climbing blockhead. The cool kids (upper class military snobs) condescended to him because he was obviously a pathetic, fawning provincial jackass. Finally he got so fed up with the aristocratic system he turned his back on it, and became a better man for it. He learned how to operate in the world of r