2. So, Jonathan Franzen has an climate change essay out which is getting a lot of criticism (as his earlier piece did) from experts. But there's something to be said about the intellectual roots of Franzen's approach to this issue.
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Stick to why he's wrong. Where he's coming from is ad hominem irrelevance.
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"where he's coming from" means in this context the intellectual tradition that formed him.
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Ok, and Jack Kirby?
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The comforting nihilism reminds me directly of the alt-right/incel/white nationalists who see greener pastures on the other side of it all burning down. Course, white hetero guys from the first world can say this.
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Somehow when I saw an out of context tweet this morning referencing the word “ornithophilic,” my brain leapt straight to Johnathan Franzen...
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It isn't going to a cozy catastrophe, it's going to be Old Testament. It's already starting.
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Is Vollmann also wrong on this, because he too is "committed to the status quo?"
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When I was younger I would never have thought that disaster fetishists would exist outside of a James Bond film but apparently they do and in significant numbers. They all want the apocalypse ASAP so a new society, free of whatever modern thing they hate, can arise.
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came for the jack kirby, left disappointed. i mean, there wasn't even a kamandi shout-out.
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I read your piece in the nation. I am a big Franzen fan, and defender, I guess, sadly; but you were very reasonable, thoughtful, fair. All the things people usually aren't when it comes to Franzen's latest outrage. Thanks.
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