aquascoot wrote on Feb 13
th, 2020 at 10:42am:
greggerypeccary wrote on Feb 13
th, 2020 at 10:37am:
aquascoot wrote on Feb 13
th, 2020 at 10:31am:
He likes to flaunt his wealth
He likes to
lie about his wealth.
Daddy gave him half a billion dollars, and he pissed it all up against the wall.
Most experts estimate that he's only worth about a tenth of what he says.
aquascoot wrote on Feb 13
th, 2020 at 10:31am:
Trump recognises the best way to help the poor and the oppressed is to get them a job ...
And then not pay them.
Indeed
The Donald has stumbled and fallen many many times
And yes he made it all the way to the oval office
That's the sort of story the people love to hear
people don't want to go to the movies and see batman just demolish his opposition
they want to see him struggle and fail and stumble and fall and eventually triumph
That's the hero's journey
The fact that trump has been a failure so many times is what makes him an archetypal story
And we love those
People line-up 4 days to go to the movies to see those stories
They also line up to see Othello, Macbeth, Richard the Third - plays where the protagonist is killed by his own vices.
Othello? Jealousy over a white wife, where Othello was the only black man in town.
Macbeth? An ambitious wife who had him pussy-whipped.
Richard III? An unbridled thirst for power driven by his own insecurities and inferiority complex.
The hero's journey comes from the tragedy (read Neitzsche's
the Birth of Tragedy), where the protagonist always gets it in the end.
Shakespeare was the master of this genre. His heroes crossed the line into villainhood almost seamlessly. Pick the point where Macbeth falls prey to evil - Lady M's speech? Her death? The scene of the witches right at the start?
Mr Trump is more of a Richard or even an Iago. He announces his vices right from the start. His campaign starts as payback for the tinted races - they're rapists, murderers, they bring in drugs...
Mr Trump is not a hero, dear, he's a villain. But as Shakespeare showed, they can be protagonists (or heroes) too.