The Mask (and Hypocrisy)
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lala
The answer is of course Game of Thrones
I'm gonna do a study* about:
a. compare the viewing figures of GoT in developed nations in comparison to their fuckedupness and demagoguery (US & UK leading the pack obvs)
& 2ndly on individuals: how many episodes you consumed (& how many tweets you dropped about it) and how far do your low expectations of political probity correspond....
*dissensus thread perhaps
luka
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Pour molten gold into their face like Carl Drogo does to that effeminate princeling?
sus
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So much good stuff in Goffman's Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life
The roles we play eventually come to feel natural, and thus can be sincerely performed. Military recruits may first follow army etiquette to avoid punishment, and soon internalize them as important (and drill them into future generations of recruits). Or:
Or as Sontag (I think?) said, "The mask becomes the face."
Correspondingly, "the cycle of disbelief-to-belief can be followed in the other direction, starting with conviction or insecure aspiration and ending in cynicism":
The roles we play eventually come to feel natural, and thus can be sincerely performed. Military recruits may first follow army etiquette to avoid punishment, and soon internalize them as important (and drill them into future generations of recruits). Or:
Or as Sontag (I think?) said, "The mask becomes the face."
Correspondingly, "the cycle of disbelief-to-belief can be followed in the other direction, starting with conviction or insecure aspiration and ending in cynicism":
william kent
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Prince Kano
In a dark wood Prince Kano lost his way
And searched in vain through the long summer’s day.
At last, when night was near, he came in sight
Of a small clearing filled with yellow light,
And there, bending beside his brazier, stood
A charcoal burner wearing a black hood.
The Prince cried out for joy: ‘Good friend, I’ll give
What you will ask: guide me to where I live.’
The man pulled back his hood: he had no face –
Where it should be there was an empty space.
Half dead with fear the Prince staggered away,
Rushed blindly through the wood till break of day;
And then he saw a larger clearing, filled
With houses, people; but his soul was chilled,
He looked around for comfort, and his search
Led him inside a small, half-empty church
Where monks prayed. ‘Father,’ to one he said,
‘I’ve seen a dreadful thing; I am afraid.’
‘What did you see, my son?’ ‘I saw a man
Whose face was like....’ And, as the Prince began,
The monk drew back his hood and seemed to hiss
Pointing to where his face should be, ‘Like this?’
In a dark wood Prince Kano lost his way
And searched in vain through the long summer’s day.
At last, when night was near, he came in sight
Of a small clearing filled with yellow light,
And there, bending beside his brazier, stood
A charcoal burner wearing a black hood.
The Prince cried out for joy: ‘Good friend, I’ll give
What you will ask: guide me to where I live.’
The man pulled back his hood: he had no face –
Where it should be there was an empty space.
Half dead with fear the Prince staggered away,
Rushed blindly through the wood till break of day;
And then he saw a larger clearing, filled
With houses, people; but his soul was chilled,
He looked around for comfort, and his search
Led him inside a small, half-empty church
Where monks prayed. ‘Father,’ to one he said,
‘I’ve seen a dreadful thing; I am afraid.’
‘What did you see, my son?’ ‘I saw a man
Whose face was like....’ And, as the Prince began,
The monk drew back his hood and seemed to hiss
Pointing to where his face should be, ‘Like this?’
sus
Moderator
Quoting Macgowan, _Sidelights on Chinese Life_: "He is an ideal-looking official, for he is large and massive in appearance, whilst he has that stern and uncomprising look that is supposed to be necessary in any magistrate who would hope to keep his subjects in order. He has a stern and forbidding aspect, as though he were on his way to the execution ground to have some criminal decapitated."