Tagged: Florence Pugh

One of these days

Writing outside one’s own identity is called fiction writing.

This should go without saying.

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Naive and/or intersectionalist realism faces a conundrum when it comes to the Little Women film.

Saoirse Ronan is Irish.

Emma Watson is British.

Florence Pugh is British.

Eliza Scanlen is a Roo.

Compulsory intersectionality and naive realism suggest they are unfit to portray “American” little women. Some type of cultural appropriation is going on here. It must outrageous.

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Art does not bear the burden of truth, it bears the necessity of being art. Art is only untrue when it ceases to be art.

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Jacobin magazine says Jesus was a revolutionary. That would make the Catholic Church the Communist Party of antiquity.

Paul would be Lenin. Constantine would be Stalin.

American Evangelicism is convenience store Christianity. It is clearly the most hypocritical sect among the world religions today.