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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 May 2015
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      15. Jeffrey Lebowski -- the Dude -- author of the original, uncompromised Port Huron Statement, one of the Seattle Seven.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 May 2015
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      16. The Dude is buffeted by competing ideologies on all sides: the Reaganite revanchism of his namesake, Walter's conservatism...

      2 replies 7 retweets 10 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 May 2015
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      17. Maude Lebowski's feminism, Jackie Treehorn's Heffnerite hedonism, etc.

      3 replies 5 retweets 9 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 May 2015
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      18. I should probably add the German nihilists into the ideological stew of The Big Lebowski, although they don't have an ethos.

      2 replies 5 retweets 35 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 May 2015
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      19. Despite the hostile ideologies & social forces he meets (the Malibu Sheriff, "a real reactionary"), Lebowski perseveres. The dude abides

      2 replies 5 retweets 12 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 May 2015
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      20. What givesglimmer of hope is left isn't completely defeated in these films, although in abeyance. The Dude abides. The Dude abides.

      3 replies 11 retweets 30 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 May 2015
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      21. Postscript: I'm told there's a character based on Herbert Marcuse in the next Coen Bros. movie. I rest my case.

      14 replies 2 retweets 17 likes
    8. Adam Nayman‏Verified account @brofromanother 22 May 2015
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      @HeerJeet 7. All if which is to say: this is an interesting topic, for essays both Twitter and real.

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 May 2015
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      @brofromanother Right. I think typical Coen Bros. moment is after Left defeat and before the Apocalypse. A precarious moment.

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    10. Adam Nayman‏Verified account @brofromanother 22 May 2015
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      @HeerJeet I think what bothers people is that the defeat is not mourned. And in No Country, it seems perilously close to a reactionary moan

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 May 2015
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      @brofromanother Right but I think their refusal to mourn is the more authentically radical stance, better than left nostalgia.

      5:18 PM - 22 May 2015 from Toronto, Ontario
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        1. Adam Nayman‏Verified account @brofromanother 22 May 2015
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          @HeerJeet I'm not criticizing them or your argument. What's interesting is how polyvalent their politics are even as many critics...

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        1. Adam Nayman‏Verified account @brofromanother 22 May 2015
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          @HeerJeet ... accuse them of being empty, nihilistic postmodernist pranksters.

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        2. Adam Nayman‏Verified account @brofromanother 22 May 2015
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          @HeerJeet I will say that in 15 years of reading and writing about films I've never heard J and E described as "hippies."

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 May 2015
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          @brofromanother I got that characterization from a BBC documentary that talked to their high-school friends. Did have long hair.

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        1. Adam Nayman‏Verified account @brofromanother 22 May 2015
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          @HeerJeet I have always wanted to see the film they made as teenagers: "Henry Kissinger: Man on the Go."

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        1. Adam Nayman‏Verified account @brofromanother 22 May 2015
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          @HeerJeet I'm curious though what you think of the characterization of Barton Fink. Is it a story of an artist humiliated...

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        2. Adam Nayman‏Verified account @brofromanother 22 May 2015
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          @HeerJeet ... Or a case of a false populist getting his just, Nathaniel West-flavoured deserts? It's their Day of the Locust, I think

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        3. Phil Tinline‏ @phil_tinline 23 May 2015
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          @brofromanother @HeerJeet On Nathanael West, the fear of fascism, and how he predicted the Nixon-Reagan backlash: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b052zwd6 …

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