Although the blog format isn't as great for fleeting thoughts and impressions like Twitter is, your longer form writing feels so much fuller without the constraints of the bird app. Will you ever write a post on There Will Be Blood? It would be interesting to see your idea of Daniel as a man in search of God in the modern world expanded upon. It's something I have heard absolutely nobody other than you mention.
I think it's more precisely Paul Thomas Anderson searching for god and Daniel is intermittently both a stand-in for PTA and for [old testament-God], but yes in a way that at least indirectly related to something I want to write a manifesto about. It's related to Lovecraft - the "problem" is that you can't "imagine" or contend with God within a modernity-framework, without imagining him a Monster. Further relates too ww2 as the founding symbolic framework for the post-modern interpretation of history; all of historical understanding is read through a reflection of ww2; the christian God of mercy is incompatible with a world of industrial murder and industrial warfare
This makes a lot of sense, if I'm understanding it correctly, Daniel is a sort of vessel for PTA to search for God and an incarnation of the Old Testament God in the modern age which invariably twists him into a monstrous man. Though I can't say I fully understand, I may need to watch it again. I'm looking forward to that manifesto.
This is very interesting given how tied up early oil tycoons were with protestant Christianity (it was the Victorian era, everyone in the West had to at least pretend they really cared about being good Christians). I see Daniel as John D Rockefeller reimagined to mythic proportions.
Like Daniel, John D came to the realization over his lifetime that the priests and pastors in whom the masses had placed all their faith and trust were really just other kinds of crooks/charlatans. They may not be selling snake oil, like John's dad did, and they might not be raping the land and each other to monopolize the oil business as John D. did, but despite all their moralizing the clergy also just wanted easy money to blow on their own egos without having to work for it. The foundation of the University of Chicago, which started out as a small project John funded to train future Baptist ministers for the modern world, soon ballooned into a national institution with global designs, driving the oil baron to the brink of a nervous breakdown.
After his recovery, you see the donations beginning to disperse to churches other than the Baptists, with his final donations going to non-denominational organizations. A lot of the Christian causes he supported shifted to the progressive, in ways that don't suggest he became more progressive, but almost as a f*ck you to the clergymen who had screwed him so often in his earlier charitable career.
"The Blogification of Doom" yes, thank you.
Now that your off twitter any good way to hit you up brother?
bookreport@yandex.com for now
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Although the blog format isn't as great for fleeting thoughts and impressions like Twitter is, your longer form writing feels so much fuller without the constraints of the bird app. Will you ever write a post on There Will Be Blood? It would be interesting to see your idea of Daniel as a man in search of God in the modern world expanded upon. It's something I have heard absolutely nobody other than you mention.
I think it's more precisely Paul Thomas Anderson searching for god and Daniel is intermittently both a stand-in for PTA and for [old testament-God], but yes in a way that at least indirectly related to something I want to write a manifesto about. It's related to Lovecraft - the "problem" is that you can't "imagine" or contend with God within a modernity-framework, without imagining him a Monster. Further relates too ww2 as the founding symbolic framework for the post-modern interpretation of history; all of historical understanding is read through a reflection of ww2; the christian God of mercy is incompatible with a world of industrial murder and industrial warfare
This makes a lot of sense, if I'm understanding it correctly, Daniel is a sort of vessel for PTA to search for God and an incarnation of the Old Testament God in the modern age which invariably twists him into a monstrous man. Though I can't say I fully understand, I may need to watch it again. I'm looking forward to that manifesto.
This is very interesting given how tied up early oil tycoons were with protestant Christianity (it was the Victorian era, everyone in the West had to at least pretend they really cared about being good Christians). I see Daniel as John D Rockefeller reimagined to mythic proportions.
Like Daniel, John D came to the realization over his lifetime that the priests and pastors in whom the masses had placed all their faith and trust were really just other kinds of crooks/charlatans. They may not be selling snake oil, like John's dad did, and they might not be raping the land and each other to monopolize the oil business as John D. did, but despite all their moralizing the clergy also just wanted easy money to blow on their own egos without having to work for it. The foundation of the University of Chicago, which started out as a small project John funded to train future Baptist ministers for the modern world, soon ballooned into a national institution with global designs, driving the oil baron to the brink of a nervous breakdown.
After his recovery, you see the donations beginning to disperse to churches other than the Baptists, with his final donations going to non-denominational organizations. A lot of the Christian causes he supported shifted to the progressive, in ways that don't suggest he became more progressive, but almost as a f*ck you to the clergymen who had screwed him so often in his earlier charitable career.
I’ll be paying to unlock episodes 2 and 3 next week, my friend. Great news!