• 0 Posts
  • 23 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: June 15th, 2023

help-circle










  • weirdwallace75toCurated Tumblran intervention
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    1 year ago

    I could imagine it happening to a Robin.

    They have their Canon Event, they become obsessed with avenging it, they end up under the wing of some Batman or other, the villains do the intervention, the Robin blames Batman for allowing them to fight crime so young…

    and a decade or so later they put it together that Batman set the whole thing up.



  • “The True Believer” by Eric Hoffer

    The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements is a non-fiction book authored by the American social philosopher Eric Hoffer. Published in 1951, it depicts a variety of arguments in terms of applied world history and social psychology to explain why mass movements arise to challenge the status quo.

    [snip]

    Hoffer argues that mass movements are broadly interchangeable even when their stated goals or values differ dramatically. This makes sense, in the author’s view, given the frequent similarities between them in terms of the psychological influences on its adherents. Thus, many will often flip from one movement to another, Hoffer asserts, and the often shared motivations for participation entail practical effects. Since, whether radical or reactionary, the movements tend to attract the same sort of people in his view, Hoffer describes them as fundamentally using the same tactics including possessing the rhetorical tools. As examples, he often refers to the purported political enemies of communism and fascism as well as the religions of Christianity and Islam.

    [snip]

    Successful mass movements need not believe in a god, but they must believe in a devil.







  • weirdwallace75toLinguistics HumorCommunication principle
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    9
    ·
    1 year ago

    A sentence grammar’s what I’m thinking of

    You wouldn’t get this from another species’ cry

    Never gonna mix the words

    Never gonna drop the nouns

    Never gonna drop a verb and confuse you

    Never gonna OSO

    Never gonna lose my flow

    Never gonna noun a verb just to lose you