{"id":62383,"date":"2023-09-22T01:00:31","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T05:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=62383"},"modified":"2023-09-21T09:18:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T13:18:08","slug":"qotd-progressive-hollow-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/09\/22\/qotd-progressive-hollow-men\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Progressive hollow men"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Ever feel like you&#8217;re living in a bad movie? I&#8217;ve recently found there&#8217;s a worse sensation: Feeling like you&#8217;re living in a <em>good<\/em> movie. There&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3bN79T_vTow\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a scene<\/a> in <em>Apocalypse Now<\/em> where Marlon Brando&#8217;s Col. Kurtz recites the opening stanzas of T.S. Eliot&#8217;s &#8220;The Hollow Men:&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>Shape without form, shade without colour,<br \/>\nParalysed force, gesture without motion;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The poem was written in 1925, but that&#8217;s why Eliot was a great artist \u2014 he anticipated the soyboi, the soulless urban bugman, by almost 100 years. The Left is nothing but &#8220;Hollow Men&#8221;-style contrasts. They&#8217;re religious fanatics without a religion. They Fucking Love Science\u2122, but think gravity is a social construction. They insist that Blacks are <em>literally<\/em> being lynched in Current Year America, and yet hardly a day goes by without news that yet another professional race hustler is really White. Their political campaigns, it goes without saying, are Cults of Personality without the personality. Above all, they are moralizers without morality \u2013 the things they scold us about are so self-contradictory, or so absurd on their face, that one is forced to conclude that this <em>by design<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Severian, <!--<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottenchestnuts.com\/the-hollow-men\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">-->&#8220;The Hollow Men&#8221;, <em>Rotten Chestnuts<\/em>, 2020-12-19.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever feel like you&#8217;re living in a bad movie? I&#8217;ve recently found there&#8217;s a worse sensation: Feeling like you&#8217;re living in a good movie. There&#8217;s a scene in Apocalypse Now where Marlon Brando&#8217;s Col. Kurtz recites the opening stanzas of T.S. Eliot&#8217;s &#8220;The Hollow Men:&#8221; Shape without form, shade without colour, Paralysed force, gesture without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,53,41,13],"tags":[592,1020,139,1462],"class_list":["post-62383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-poetry","tag-progressives","tag-psychology","tag-severian"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-geb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62383"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84887,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62383\/revisions\/84887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}