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Saw The Odyssey, it was a decent movie. Good cinematography. Later learned parts of it were filmed in occupied Western Sahara, which sucks. Saw some commie meme pages using Polyphemus for some image with some people commenting how Marx failed to consider Polyphemus’ possible anti-imperialist tendencies. Except Marx did mention Polyphemus multiple times lol. Read Marx.
Anyway I try not to fall back on doomerism regarding the climate. Situation is getting pretty bad. Record after record is getting shattered. The sea is insanely warm. El Niño still has to happen later this year. It will have no real effect over here but I fear for elsewhere in the world. The only thing the news worries about is loss of profit for companies. There is almost no water flowing through the rivers but it’s only bad because ships can’t go through it now. No mention of our wildlife and plants whatsoever.
Lara of Psychic militancy and Jared of MAKC had a good little rant about The Odyssey. Its kinda fucked up how white people have appropriated Greek culture while at the same time europeans kinda see Greeks as border line barbarians.
I’m a big nerd for Roman and Greek eras and their mythology and wars so Troy was a film I watched often as a kid. For The Odyssey I checked back with the movie, also because I kept seeing right wing chuds using that movie to slander The Odyssey’s diversity, and I noticed how many Nordic looking people were in the movie lol. Like, I have been to Greece and these people do not look Greek at all. Same with the Roman Empire basically. Take one look at Mediterranean people to see what they would have looked like.
The Odyssey itself isn’t particularly Greek either but I guess that’s what you get if you have a Hollywood cast.
Orientalism is born of the disgust/resentment of latins against greeks (and persians).
A lot of people severely underestimate how much biblical and classical stories were widely understood by modern educated people.