usually it's the other way around, that for the west to now impose standards of "degrowth" on the over exploited/ underdeveloped rest of world for the sake of climate would hinder their development and contribute to maintenance of hegemony
In-book, Holden's eloquence is part of his villainy, he's the dang devil 😈
And the other characters are heavily contrasted with this
The kid's terseness is a mild parody of B-movie westerns. Looking at a severed head, ''he spat and wiped his mouth. He aint no kin to me, he said.''
And as the author, mccarthy has a stylistic purpose to writing that way outside of the holden character
This latest book is his most important, for it puts in perspective the Faulknerian language and unprovoked violence running through the previous works, which were often viewed as exercises in style or studies of evil. ''Blood Meridian'' makes it clear that all along Mr. McCarthy has asked us to witness evil not in order to understand it but to affirm its inexplicable reality; his elaborate language invents a world hinged between the real and surreal, jolting us out of complacency.
Quotes are from nyt's 1985 review https://www.nytimes.com/1985/04/28/books/blood-meridian-by-cormac-mccarthy.html
My point being, don't go pretending you are the devil or pretending you are Cormac type guy that's cringe
I've been playing bf2042 for the past week and the implied setting/plot (there is no single player campaign) is wild.
Load into a map and the intro voiceover will be like "an earthquake revealed what the Russians allege is a secret military installation in the Canadian Rockies, and they are moving to secure the site. Get in there and kill every last one of them so our secrets dont fall into the wrong hands" :frothingfash:
Another map, Russian side: "This Swedish arms manufacturer has been supplying Amerikkkan operatives around the world for too long. That stops today. Your mission is a full scale assault on the factory" :comrade-raccoon:
I don't think it was their intention, but self-insert narrative fiction about climate activism kind of feels like it carries aspects of stolen valor / capitalist realism / commodification of dissent
Also wondering about that mention of "conservative environmentalism", seems like a concept begging to be critiqued (what sort of systems and structural relations do its adherents seek to conserve, and for whose benefit? what do they think about environmental racism? what is their vision of "climate justice"?)
WSJ - Social-Media Account Overseen by Former Navy Noncommissioned Officer Helped Spread Secrets
An American administrator of the Donbas Girl blogger network uses a pro-Russian persona across online platforms
A purported Russian blogger known as Donbass Devushka, which translates as Donbas Girl, reposted the files from obscure online chat rooms. The blog is the face of a network of pro-Kremlin social-media, podcasting, merchandise and fundraising accounts. But the person who hosted podcasts as Donbass Devushka and oversees these accounts is a Washington-state-based former U.S. enlisted aviation electronics technician whose real name is Sarah Bils.
Ms. Bils, 37 years old, served at the U.S. naval air station on Whidbey Island until late last year, even as the accounts she had established and supervised glorified the Russian military and the paramilitary Wagner Group. They are among the most widely followed English-language social-media outlets promoting Russia’s views.
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