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#161 - No Times But New Times (Patreon)

Published:
2020-07-12 14:57:09
Edited:
2020-11-29 20:58:15
Imported:
2024-06

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Orson Welles' THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (1942) tells the tragic story of an old-money family crushed by the wheel of progress, and has a complicated relationship with both old-money and progress. At least until the studio-imposed happy ending. We discuss a mangled masterpiece, and consider Orson Welles as an ideological challenge to Hollywood. PLUS: bad freelance writing experiences, and the "Cancel Culture" debate.

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Emvee

Edith Wharton’s / Martin Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence explores some of the same themes you discuss here, and much more thrillingly. By the time of that story, the sons of old money can respectably be lawyers, and in the next generation their offspring are marrying the children of Wall Street fraudsters and their mistresses under the defeatedly tolerant gaze of New York society. I actually like to think of the novel as Wharton’s The Portrait of a Gentleman, a gender-flipped response to Henry James’ muffled, frustrating heroine.

Dee Gee

I found the theme of technological progress interesting, not just because I'm overly online, but because technoogy has done so much to better the lives of the disabled. In a lot of ways, if a society aims to include people who have to do things differently, it has to disrupt its set routines. Like with so many other things, letting capital drive these disruptions doesn't prioritize social good, and for most people it takes more than it gives. But I'm still going to be more keen on technology than some because the difference in quality of life is quite stark.