Comments for One White Duck http://abou.heliologue.com Fri, 22 Jul 2011 22:50:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Comment on Update by Alexander7 http://abou.heliologue.com/2010/11/23/update/#comment-935 Alexander7 Fri, 22 Jul 2011 22:50:18 +0000 http://abou.heliologue.com/?p=114#comment-935 <strong><b><a href="http://www.trustedpillspot.com/?ml=buy-generic-LEVITRA buy@generic.LEVITRA" rel="nofollow">...</a></b></blockquote>...</strong> Need cheap generic LEVITRA?... buy@generic.LEVITRA” rel=”nofollow”>……

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]]> Comment on Alexander the Great Failure by John D. Grainger by Vartan http://abou.heliologue.com/2010/07/04/alexander-the-great-failure-by-john-d-grainger/#comment-82 Vartan Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:22:07 +0000 http://abou.heliologue.com/?p=6#comment-82 Hey Abou. First off, interesting blog. It's bookmarked! As I don't have this book and have never read it, I will simply bypass the topic. My comment has to do with my concern with how people (unfortunately) still perceive Alexander. And by still I mean since white supremacy, so we're talking maybe a couple hundred years, give or take a few decades. Or maybe three hundred, depends on how you look at it, I'm no historian of Euro-centrism and whatnot. At any rate, Alexander the Butcher, as he was known since antiquity, and especially in the middle ages, has been glorified for the past couple centuries. What is most disturbing is that this can be seen day after day. Our various mediums of communication (primarily TV, cinema and the Internet) combined with the rewriting of history since the rise of white supremacy has been the reason why any random person would call him Alexander the Great and do this would entail not only his usual title of MEGAS but also all the misconceptions that come along with that. That is, sadly enough, your average person, nowadays desensitized to war and so on, finds it fascinating that this man could have conquered a large portion of the world over two millennia ago. These same people fail to realize that we are talking about the very same man that killed those who dared disobey him. He was another Gilgamesh, as it were. He was the cause, direct or indirect, of the deaths of millions of people. Alexander was a serial murderer and a serial rapist. Yet you hear him named not Alexander III, not Alexander son of Philip, but as Alexander the Great. When was the last time you heard him called Alexander the Butcher or Alexander the Serial Murderer and Serial Rapist? Cheers. Hey Abou. First off, interesting blog. It’s bookmarked!

As I don’t have this book and have never read it, I will simply bypass the topic. My comment has to do with my concern with how people (unfortunately) still perceive Alexander. And by still I mean since white supremacy, so we’re talking maybe a couple hundred years, give or take a few decades. Or maybe three hundred, depends on how you look at it, I’m no historian of Euro-centrism and whatnot.

At any rate, Alexander the Butcher, as he was known since antiquity, and especially in the middle ages, has been glorified for the past couple centuries. What is most disturbing is that this can be seen day after day. Our various mediums of communication (primarily TV, cinema and the Internet) combined with the rewriting of history since the rise of white supremacy has been the reason why any random person would call him Alexander the Great and do this would entail not only his usual title of MEGAS but also all the misconceptions that come along with that. That is, sadly enough, your average person, nowadays desensitized to war and so on, finds it fascinating that this man could have conquered a large portion of the world over two millennia ago. These same people fail to realize that we are talking about the very same man that killed those who dared disobey him. He was another Gilgamesh, as it were. He was the cause, direct or indirect, of the deaths of millions of people. Alexander was a serial murderer and a serial rapist. Yet you hear him named not Alexander III, not Alexander son of Philip, but as Alexander the Great. When was the last time you heard him called Alexander the Butcher or Alexander the Serial Murderer and Serial Rapist?

Cheers.

]]> Comment on by Ben http://abou.heliologue.com/2010/09/15/106/#comment-21 Ben Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:35:56 +0000 http://abou.heliologue.com/?p=106#comment-21 This new conservative grassroots thing is interesting, and clearly a response to the popular upswell of support for Obama back when he still seemed novel. But whereas conservatives used to be able to laugh at videos of black people at Obama rallies saying "<a href="http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/obama_supporter_if_i_vote_for_obama_i_wont_have_to_pay_for_gas_pay_my_mortg/" rel="nofollow">[Now] I won't have to work at payin' my mortgage</a>", now we either laugh or shudder at videos of white people <a href="http://heliologue.com/2009/04/12/this-will-surely-end-well/" rel="nofollow">screaming for a good old-fashioned book-burning</a>. It will naturally be fun to watch this entire movement eat itself, because when you think about it, the incumbent conservative politicians are all generally smart, well-educated, wealthy, and more centrist than you might think. When the tea party starts throwing incumbents under the bus for being insufficiently radical (for instance, taking a strong stance against burning college textbooks....) and thrusting their own squirrely candidates forward, suddenly even the most bland and poncy Leftist starts looking like a good idea to centrist voters. This new conservative grassroots thing is interesting, and clearly a response to the popular upswell of support for Obama back when he still seemed novel. But whereas conservatives used to be able to laugh at videos of black people at Obama rallies saying “[Now] I won’t have to work at payin’ my mortgage“, now we either laugh or shudder at videos of white people screaming for a good old-fashioned book-burning.

It will naturally be fun to watch this entire movement eat itself, because when you think about it, the incumbent conservative politicians are all generally smart, well-educated, wealthy, and more centrist than you might think. When the tea party starts throwing incumbents under the bus for being insufficiently radical (for instance, taking a strong stance against burning college textbooks….) and thrusting their own squirrely candidates forward, suddenly even the most bland and poncy Leftist starts looking like a good idea to centrist voters.

]]> Comment on Alexander the Great Failure by John D. Grainger by abou http://abou.heliologue.com/2010/07/04/alexander-the-great-failure-by-john-d-grainger/#comment-3 abou Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:43:45 +0000 http://abou.heliologue.com/?p=6#comment-3 I think it's safe to say that the Makedonians certainly knew how to party. Makedonia proper did eventually form a stable government, but it took several decades to get there. I think it’s safe to say that the Makedonians certainly knew how to party. Makedonia proper did eventually form a stable government, but it took several decades to get there.

]]> Comment on Alexander the Great Failure by John D. Grainger by Ben http://abou.heliologue.com/2010/07/04/alexander-the-great-failure-by-john-d-grainger/#comment-2 Ben Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:34:37 +0000 http://abou.heliologue.com/?p=6#comment-2 Though I'm not even up to Philip's death in Peter Green's <cite>Alexander of Macedon 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography</cite>, I'm already getting the sense that the Makedonians were rather like noble savages--utterly brilliant militarily, but utterly myopic in the sense that they placed military conquest over a stable government. Also, it seems clear that Alexander has some serious daddy issues. Though I’m not even up to Philip’s death in Peter Green’s Alexander of Macedon 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography, I’m already getting the sense that the Makedonians were rather like noble savages–utterly brilliant militarily, but utterly myopic in the sense that they placed military conquest over a stable government.

Also, it seems clear that Alexander has some serious daddy issues.

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