Sean Fallon

THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS: A Fantastic First Step for Marvel’s First Family

THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS: A Fantastic First Step for Marvel’s First Family

There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc. There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation. There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely. Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual. As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.

So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone. Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism. No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get: The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.

Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
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Into the Poohniverse: Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2

Into the Poohniverse: Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2

Zack Snyder Fans Worried New Superman Movie Will Show Him Rescuing Someone

Zack Snyder Fans Worried New Superman Movie Will Show Him Rescuing Someone

Ten AI Movie-Making Tips from a Guy Who Both Hates and Misunderstands Movies

Ten AI Movie-Making Tips from a Guy Who Both Hates and Misunderstands Movies

New Pixar Movie Imagines World in Which Disney Execs Have Emotions

New Pixar Movie Imagines World in Which Disney Execs Have Emotions

Into the Poohniverse: Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 

Into the Poohniverse: Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 

Lego Star Wars Andor DLC to Feature Genocide Rendered with Colourful Bricks

Lego Star Wars Andor DLC to Feature Genocide Rendered with Colourful Bricks

With Coverfly and Screencraft both shutting down, where's good for screenwriting competitions?

“Wheelchair Ramps Are Woke!” Screams Man Who Was Once a Child Capable of Love and Empathy

“Wheelchair Ramps Are Woke!” Screams Man Who Was Once a Child Capable of Love and Empathy

Very much in this team

My 100th birthday... in prison? - This is abuse.

Followed by a trial-less execution.

Just had a really stressful situation at work and it was still boring as fuck.
This is bullshit, I was supposed to be a famous author by now being pretentious at dinner parties and being on Jimmy Fallon where we just riff on having the same surname for five minutes before I get bumped for Lady Gaga

Spoilers for Brave New World maybe but there are scenes where Harrison Ford has the Thaddeus Ross moustache.

How your email finds me

New batch of books arrived. Going to be displaying/selling these at the Footscray Writers Festival next month where I'll also be on a panel. All wild stuff that I never thought would ever happen for me.

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This character does not look remotely like this in the movie...

This is just some guy but green.

No note. 10/10

Go back to name calling. Harris lost momentum when they stopped calling the GOP weird.

From Letterboxd it looks like audiences like Brave New World while critics don't. Seems right. It's not setting the world alight but it's fun and entertaining. I do wonder about the recent hated MCU movies and how they would have fared earlier in the superhero boom.

It's going to be so painful watching them cast this series and seeing actors you like join up.

The fucking worst part is that if dickhead could have shut the fuck up, I'd be really excited at this choice as Lithgow is an inspired Dumbledore pick.

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A great sequel to The Incredible Hulk, Eternals, and The Winter Soldier and Falcon series.
Anthony Mackie IS Captain America. Accept no substitutes.

#CaptainAmericaBraveNewWorld
Very cool. Back to basics stuff which works best for Cap.
Harrison Ford is obvs the MVP and plays a much more nuanced role than I expected.
He also spends the movie gradually getting more and more furious with every scene

Country run by weird children

Listening to GNX this morning and Gus said, "Daddy, why does he go mussssttttaaaarrrrddddd!?"
Oh, Mustard is his friend's name so he's shouting his name to show everyone they're mates.
"Oh, like me and Felix?"

Pretty sure Gus is gonna go to daycare tomorrow and shout "Feeeelllllliiiiiiixxxxxx!"