tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post7057039252965983674..comments2024-03-12T12:38:23.542-04:00Comments on The Kind of Face You Hate: The Von Klaus Family Historybill r.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17748572205731857892noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-33143948950231387152015-06-11T18:57:20.703-04:002015-06-11T18:57:20.703-04:00That's very nice of you to say, John. I apprec...That's very nice of you to say, John. I appreciate it very much. As to the rest of your points, yeah, well, recently I told my wife that my dream job was "hermit." And I swear to God, if the pay was just a little bit better...bill r.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17748572205731857892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-3258825875303694152015-06-11T17:28:37.953-04:002015-06-11T17:28:37.953-04:00...yet when we think back on a time when that same...<i>...yet when we think back on a time when that same brand of fury was directed at slasher films and, before that, EC Comics, we find only hypocrisy, censorship, and an insidious, intrusive moralizing.</i><br /><br />And that's all there is to it today, too, except nowadays it's coming from the supposedly "progressive" direction. But it's all the same thing in the end: easy mass-scapegoating and outraged posturing over acceptable media targets as a means of broadcasting the purity of one's social agenda, largely in the service of furthering one's relationship with a particular narrow-minded audience.<br /><br />Moral fury directed at fiction is never righteous, it's only grandstanding, an empty gesture meant to win approval from likeminded idiots who see disagreeable expression as a threat to their own overdeveloped egos. Like practically everything and everyone political on the internet, it's hardly even worth ignoring. And if it gets obnoxious enough, as it seems likely to, well, then maybe there's a fine excuse for the rest of us to stay away permanently.<br /><br />Anyway, another fine article, and another title hopefully to look forward to. I swear, if it wasn't for this blog, the internet would be a dull barren cultural wasteland that left me sickened with a black despair for the future of life on earth. Well... okay, it still is one, but on the plus side, it has your blog going for it.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05364322006357208797noreply@blogger.com