Archetypology
Characteristics of the Mythic Pulp Hero by James LaFond
© 2018 James LaFond
DEC/28/18
I began trying to break down the elements of Robert E. Howard’s specific major heroes, characters who were protagonists in at least two tales each. Then I decided to just begin the process and let the reader make his own choices...
night city
cracker-boy
within leviathan’s craw
blue eyed daughter of zeus
sorcerer!
sons of aryas
book of nightmares
ranger?
the greatest boxer
the greatest lie ever sold
fiction anthology one
your trojan whorse
advent america
the fighting edge
america the brutal
on the overton railroad
under the god of things
the year the world took the z-pill
z-pill forever
predation
by the wine dark sea
triumph
songs of aryas
dark, distant futures
the combat space
the first boxers
the gods of boxing
solo boxing
the sunset saga complete
fanatic
time & cosmos
menthol rampage
into leviathan’s maw
when you're food
thriving in bad places
fate
all-power-fighting
hate
broken dance
let the world fend for itself
beasts of aryas
honor among men
on combat
taboo you
wife—
son of a lesser god
uncle satan
orphan nation
song of the secret gardener
winter of a fighting life
masculine axis
barbarism versus civilization
logic of force
the lesser angels of our nature
logic of steel
James,
Saw this link and thought it said something interesting about different ways of managing human livestock:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-28/chinese-journalist-sentenced-4-years-over-subversive-retweetszerohedge.com/news/2018-12-28/chinese-journalist-sentenced-4-years-over-subversive-retweets
You could argue the overtly authoritarian way is more humane than soft-authoritarian. In China today, or the old USSR &c., it was pretty clear what was off limits as their system allowed for explicitly outlawing activities counter to the perceived interests of the owner class.
But the choice isn't between "freedom" and "tyranny", it's between overt and covert red lines. In America, we have an owner class too, who allow themselves to be constrained by 18th c. liberal institutions. They're constrained, but they're still operation under the same incentives as the ChiComs, and seek to maximally exploit their sentient, free-willed livestock. They can't/won't quite outlaw speech or private organization, so instead of simply telling us what we can't do, they work behind the scenes to thwart would-be competitors, while pretending we have broad freedoms.
I'm thinking specifically of the case of Kwanzaa. I learned a few days ago that Kwanzaa was essentially an FBI creation. The FBI were concerned about black nationalism back in the 70s, so they backed the most extreme, loony black nationalists they could find. Sound familiar? Long story short, a side effect of pushing the extreme black nationalists, who were inevitably irrelevant, was getting the Kwanzaa meme fixed into the culture. This is almost as good as the CIA promoting modern art.
I for one promise I will never try to agitate the other slaves, but still find observing the scene fascinating, which is why I read you. I do wish they'd just tell us what our social credit score is (guaranteed every American has one) and what we can and can't say. I suppose they have their reasons for keeping things as they are.
Will use as an article starterthanks!