Paul Heron
@Paul_Heron_
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Welsh writer based in Poland. Stackcel (link below); bylines in @TheCriticMag, @DecadentSerpent & @CAmericain_mag. Side accs: @QuotesOfJGB, @cool_memories
Joined July 2018
My latest for @CAmericain_mag is on the decline of the war / military movie. Beginning with a look back to the classics of the past to consider what made them great, I then move on to more recent fare like Dunkirk, Fury, 1917, The Outpost, Greyhound, Devotion and more. If
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Just realised that Harris did not generate a single iconic image.
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Luigi discourse being increasingly about how hot he is and decreasingly about why he did it—a handy reminder that the Left is now almost entirely women and gay men.
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It’s telling that the Dems tried to create a buzz around a word (brat), whereas Trump’s team knew the visual was the key battleground.
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Notice how nobody has personality traits anymore. The way Discourse has it, no one is kind, or scatterbrained, or inconsiderate, or inconsistent, or brave. Instead people have diagnoses: autism, BPD, depression, ADHD.
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The teenager hadn’t really been invented so they were all trying to be adults.
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Evolution of Leftist statuary.
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World champion complainers.
Muslim complains that she can't eat at the beach with a face veil, DEMANDS more spaces where Muslim women can eat in public that are HALAL. What would you say to to her? Does Canada need to accommodate Muslims that want to eat at the beach?
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What a way to spend your time on Earth.
HE shows HIS results of Facial Feminization Surgery 🏳️⚧️. What is your reaction?.
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You’ve just been canceled. The sixth picture in your camera roll is the person/thing you got canceled for supporting/believing in.
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Something especially grim about profanity in official communications. A nihilistic gesture, self-debasement.
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Have the impression they really want this girl to do herself in.
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Have not seen a single left-lib argue that yes, Rotherham, Rochdale etc al are terrible, should never have happened and things have to change, but that nevertheless multiculturalism can be made to work.
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One of the odder symptoms of the liberal psychosis at its current unprecedented intensity: a real pattern is noticed but somehow ends up reversed in the mind of the noticer.
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Something very noticeable about left-libs is they have poor “situational awareness” in a wider sense. They just know less about what’s going on in the world.
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Lol why are their libertine fantasies so tame and banal?.
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Very apt. Realism was achieved in 2015, then hyperreality took over.
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I don’t know why it’s not obvious to everyone that AI is going to cheapen images in every sense. Almost everything will become ‘meh’.
100% AI Generated. I remember when I would spend 30 hours on conceptualization, modeling, texturing, lighting, and rendering to finally get an image like this. And now, anyone who can communicate and has the idea can do it in less than 15 minutes. Everything is going to change.
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The likes of Wilson and her defenders adopt this very stuffy, “How dare you disrespect credentials, institutions!” tone while showing off symbols of rebellion against those institutions (tattoos). The schizophrenic place post-68 liberalism has ended up in.
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Interesting how the addition of the ‘eye’ & the yellow triangle gives the flag a creepy occult vibe it didn’t have before.
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Few concepts sicker than that of ‘emotional labour’. Everything’s a transaction for these people.
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The Simpsons became cringe because it wasn’t allowed to end when it naturally should have, but instead was forced to soldier on through multiple eras that were not its own. The show’s formula is a fundamentally late 80s / early 90s one. Bart’s catchphrase was “eat my shorts” for.
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These days men and women are warring parties and “what do you bring to the table?” refers to the ceasefire negotiation table.
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Today’s society is basically admitting it doesn’t know how to persuade people life is worth living.
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Given that Marx was partial to insults like ‘Jew n*gger’ it’s one of the odder facts of history that he became the master thinker for antiracists.
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Houellebecq: “The Left feels lost, and just like an injured animal, it becomes mean. It wasn’t the case when I started writing. It now feels itself dying so it becomes mean.”.
"I was a skilled steel worker. Now I'm delivering parcels for minimum wage, self employed, no rights. It stinks. Think we'll lose the house. Vote Brexit, they said, save Steel. Vote Boris, they said, save Steel. I'll still vote tory again - I don't trust Labour"
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Black people built Stonehenge. You might disagree. You might even have evidence to the contrary. But you have to ask yourself: is this really worth failing my GCSE over? Black people built Stonehenge.
"Schoolchildren taught black people built Stonehenge. "Drive to decolonise history curriculums has ‘gone too far’, warns report".
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Love really does seem to be an alien concept for much of the dissident right.
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This was one of the shows that brought me to the realisation it wasn’t my culture anymore.
Watch Bojack Horseman. This show changed my brain chemistry for the better 😌😌😌😌😌😌😌
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Automatic & furious hostility to the past, even the recent past. Some sort of youth madness, last seen in 1960s China.
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I think the truth is, left-liberalism has been in a siege mentality for some time. It feels it cannot concede anything, and this leads it to deny even the most obvious realities.
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She’s a normal woman. Pretty evil, this kind of sentiment. You see it often.
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This is now the standard midwit take. At bottom, the CIA funding Abstract Expressionism is irrelevant, because the move into abstraction predated that funding by over 50 years & can clearly be put down to art’s own inner logic in the age of photography & mechanical reproduction.
Reminder that modern art was a CIA psy-op. Former CIA officials came clean on this during the '90s, confirming that the agency used abstract art by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and others to promote American culture during the Cold War. The intent was to portray America
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Interesting how grimdark has gone from being a faux-documentary aesthetic (the artificially aged film-stock of Saving Private Ryan), to being the standard look for historical films set in the Middle Ages, to being the look du jour for all pre-1960s-set historical films.
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The perennial appeal of this tale (which this account has told a few times now, I think) is it allows bores to write off the likes of Pollock and Rothko as fakes, frauds. But really CIA involvement was incidental; this art succeeded because it resonated, & continues to resonate.
Was modern art a CIA psy-op?. This is what the Cold War did to American art. (thread) 🧵
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A global generation pathetically incapable of coming up with anything original.
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He probably thought he’d get a political movement going. Instead he just inspired a billion sexual fantasies.
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An ironic effect of Tinder: it hasn’t increased opportunities for sex and romance, quite the opposite. The ‘dating’ app’s popularity has made approaching a stranger in public semi-taboo.
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Posts like this really do a great job of making a mockery of all those 19th- and 20th-century women who worked hard to be taken seriously in the intellectual professions.
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All ‘resist capitalism’ type sentiments from wokes should be viewed as part of what Baudrillard called (specifically in reference to The Matrix) ‘trompe-l'œil critique’ - the system’s fake critique of itself. Woke capital (the phenomenon) is this bogus critique turned up the max.
Lululemon is holding a workshop to "decolonize gender" and "resist capitalism".
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We have a paradoxical sort of individualism now, where everything that matters - money, job etc - is your sole responsibility, yet you have no freedom. You’re absolutely on your own, but the eye of society is always on you. It’s a highly organised & policed individualism.
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Evidence of mental debility.
Nowhere is cultural acceleration more evident than in the movies. As Andrej Karpathy says, movies from before 1995 are slow, boring and naive.
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It’s curious how people’s hearts are just not in it these days. I never got that sense in the 90s, or even in the 00s. Something happened in the 2010s. Passions withering on the vine.
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POV: you are that woman.
‘$70,000 CEO’ Dan Price resigns after allegedly grabbing woman by throat
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I do like the idea BAP decided to become an extremely online white nationalist as an elaborate Jewish comedy routine.
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BBC dangerously close to realising that female nature is a thing.
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The Internet has completed the process Baudrillard described here, modernity’s ‘boiling down bit by bit into a culture of daily events’. What I miss is culture being something more than that.
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The Anglosphere is really in full psychotic meltdown at this point.
Hippocratic oath be damned. Canadian doctor says that the unvaccinated should be completely denied an ICU and medical care for ANY injury or sickness, even if not COVID. Unvaxxed and in a car wreck? You’re on your own with this doctor.
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I may be being overly generous, but I feel that once upon a time, many decades ago, that would’ve been their argument. Not merely blanket denial of the ethnic and cultural dimension of the issue.
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For me Pollock’s canvases, like Rothko’s and Bacon’s, are commentary (intended or not) on art reaching its end. And you can’t blame these painters for being there at the end—that was the lot assigned them. And AI ‘art’ is what you get *after* the end.
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We seem to have the pendulum-swing reaction to virtue signaling, vice signaling. Being overtly vicious and cruel to signal basedness.
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One thing that’s become taboo in cinema and TV is the depiction of female madness.
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I think men just lost the knack of reading fiction. Current generations don’t know how to take something from it.
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The contrast between transhumanism as imagined by 80s cyberpunk - romantic, erotic, hard nihilism - and the present-day actuality - monotonous, sentimental, feminine but oddly sexless; soft nihilism.
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The gap between what women think they want and what they actually want has probably never been wider.
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David Lynch and Donald Trump, both born in 1946. Two men with an instinct for Americana. For American myth.
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The True Detective season I’d write.
The True Detective season I would write.
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You can attack twee Little England aesthetics but you’d better have something better to offer instead. This is what differentiates English modernists like Wyndham Lewis, Ballard and Mark Fisher from the not-even-mediocre likes of Otto English.
Please beware the Twitter accounts sharing seemingly harmless nostalgia, which are, in reality, spreading xenophobia and racism. @Otto_English has dubbed this trend #Shitstalgia. Here is a case in point: Sandy of Suffolk. 1/n
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MAiD is just one of many signs that liberalism has shifted over to a Schopenhauerian position, viewing life as having a negative value by default. Other signs: antinataliam, pro-choice extremism.
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Many of these companies don’t need to stand out from the competition because there no longer is any competition.
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Somewhat disturbing the way the world has become an extended joke.
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I know racism is supposed to be cool and all now, but… doesn’t this strike you as nasty, petty and pathetic?.
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I doubt Lord Miles is an MI6 agent, but he does seem to be someone who has very deliberately set out to create an online RW persona and mythos. A new type of entrepreneur.
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It’s amazing how broken the web is. Almost every page is a total shitshow of pop ups, autoplay, delayed loading white space and unresponsiveness.
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I’ve seen this described as ‘Pixar affect’. Culture as cybernetics.
Wow you got ghosted no way I can't believe it that sucks so much for you
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The weirdest thing about this photo is how one of the men has adopted the ‘just given birth’ position, lying in bed and with no shirt.
They bought a baby who will never have her mom. You’ve lost part of your soul if you think this is okay.
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The dreary minimalism, the prices, the black tape, the ‘card only’. Everything about it’s depressing.
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The real challenge of life today is to keep your energy up, keep yourself interested. You have to be constantly looking for angles that fire your imagination. Because the ambient culture is very low-energy, unimaginative.
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An unwritten rule of the art world for the past half a century or more is that art must have the void at its core. It can’t affirm any transcendent reality (eg God). And ofc, there’s only so many times and ways you can do that, affirm the void. Eventually you become the void.
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Numetal culture was stupid and its aesthetics terrible.
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I cannot really get over how so many young people are utter dorks these days. The young are supposed to be cool.
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At least half of cringe production can be attributed to social media enabling untalented and not very bright people who are labouring under the delusion they have something to say.
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Maybe this is the BAP influence, but there doesn’t appear to be modernist Right to speak of today. It’s all dreams of steppe marauders etc. The writings of 30s Rightists—Jünger,Spengler etc—evince a horrified fascination with the city, & with machinery, especially war machinery.
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An interesting thing about The Big Lebowski when it appeared (in ‘98) was it presented itself as a period film and did indeed feel like one, but the period in question (early 90s) had barely ended, it was not yet even a decade old.
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The divorce of the white working class and the Labour Party, which commenced in earnest in the 90s, is key to understanding why New Labour opened the country up to mass immigration. They imported a new support base.
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Left-liberals really hate smoking, which is strange as they care little about healthy living otherwise. I wonder if it’s got something to do with the cigarette being such a potent symbol of 20th-century ideas of freedom and independence.
On tomorrow's front page: Smoking to be BANNED in pub gardens, outside footy stadiums and in kids’ parks, leaked government plans reveal.
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I wonder if the therapy angle is a way for women to express their perennial contempt for male vulnerability, but in a politically correct way.
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Watching this series gives you an inkling as to why the Great War was the most psychologically and spiritually devastating event in modern British history.
Captain Blackadder: "How are you feeling, Darling?" . Captain Darling "Ahm - not all that good, Blackadder. Rather hoped l'd get through the whole show. Go back to work at Pratt & Sons; keep wicket for the Croydon gentlemen; marry Doris. Made a note in my diary on the way here.
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8 billion people on Earth but fewer distinct personalities than ever before.
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“Kurt Cobain was a trans girl” demonstrates that the biggest mistake people make comparing culture 1945-2000 to 21st century culture is they perceive differences of degree (Kurt sometimes wore a dress) but not differences in kind (the dress-wearing was ironic and performative).
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Besides the form, I love the choice of material here. Warm and organic.
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Here’s a key difference between Musk and Trump. Trump wouldn’t tweet this. His humour can be coarse (of course), but it’s uniquely his own in a way that creates a weird sort of mystique. Whereas Musk comes across as a nerd trying to impress the jocks.
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“Get me the most Hitler-like photo of Martin Heidegger you have, stat!”.
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