Last night I listened to @HeerJeet on James Buchan, the new "King's Man" film, and the ideological distinguishing marks of British espionage fiction. 1/https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/the-kings-man-and-antisemitism-in?s=r …
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John Holbo Retweeted Jeet Heer
Here's the twitter thread version. Good stuff. 2/https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1501948233425162240 …
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Two thoughts: first, espionage fiction is a great mask for the paranoid style. The genre conventions launder ideology to the point where one can't tell where it starts and 'entertainment' ends. 3/
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Second, one really can't overestimate the prophetic foresight of G.K. Chesterton's "The Man Who Was Thursday" (1908), qua blueprint for right-wing culture war. The pathos of his 'philosophical policeman' is every right-wing moral panic in a nutshell. 4/pic.twitter.com/TSyXoxMtJo
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yeah a few people suggested I weave GKC in't my narrative but it was long enough as it is! But, yes, a formative influence on all this.
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