{"id":68553,"date":"2024-12-07T01:00:26","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T06:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=68553"},"modified":"2024-12-06T06:23:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T11:23:40","slug":"qotd-game-of-thrones-as-pomo-deconstructionism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/12\/07\/qotd-game-of-thrones-as-pomo-deconstructionism\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Game of Thrones<\/em> as PoMo “deconstructionism”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Finally, Game of Thrones<\/em>. I think it’s the same deal here, the same faux<\/em> world weary cynicism. I’ve only seen one or two episodes of the show, but I read the first two or three books, up to the point where I realized two things: 1) he has no idea how he’s going to finish the story, and 2) it’s yet more tedious PoMo “deconstruction”.<\/p>\n

Again, I guess I can forgive my colleagues, under-sexed little closet cases that they are, for being distracted by the boob cornucopia up on screen, but in the books, anyway, this comes through plain as day: Everyone in Westeros is either a psychopathic scumbag, or dead. In the very best PoMo style, the author is rubbing our faces in his belief that, since it’s extremely difficult to be heroic \u2014 or, all too often, merely decent \u2014 everyone who even thinks about trying is a fool, and deserves all the awful shit that happens to him. I’m told that back in the 18th century, a fun topic of debate at salons is whether a society of atheists could endure. Martin’s entire oeuvre<\/em> seems dedicated to proving that life \u2014 mere, grubby, eating-shitting-sleeping existence \u2014 will continue in a society composed entirely of scumbags … but he has no idea why.<\/p>\n

I have no idea why this idea (if that’s the right word) is so deeply appealing to academics, but evidently it is … and these are the people who are teaching your children.<\/p>\n

Severian, “The One Pop Culture Thing”, Rotten Chestnuts<\/em>, 2021-09-16.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finally, Game of Thrones. I think it’s the same deal here, the same faux world weary cynicism. I’ve only seen one or two episodes of the show, but I read the first two or three books, up to the point where I realized two things: 1) he has no idea how he’s going to finish […]<\/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":[32,79,28,41],"tags":[1147,577,576,1462,101,764],"class_list":["post-68553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-education","category-media","category-quotations","tag-gameofthrones","tag-nihilism","tag-philosophy","tag-severian","tag-tv","tag-university"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-hPH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68553","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=68553"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92805,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68553\/revisions\/92805"}],"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=68553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}