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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Mar 2018

      1. The Dude abides. Some thoughts on the 20th anniversary of The Big Lebowski. Let's start with what it means to say the Dude "abides."

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Mar 2018

      2. Like Melville's Bartleby or Goncharov's Oblomov, the Dude, quite possibly the laziest man in the world, is a hero of inertia, a champion of inaction. He doesn't flourish or conquer. He abides.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Mar 2018

      3. The Dude abides rather than conquers because he's a man out of time, an anachronism, a '60s burnout living in the post-Reaganite world.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Mar 2018

      4. The Dude (one of the authors of the original Port Huron Statement, not the compromised 2nd draft) isn't strident but he holds on to counterculture values in a world that has passed them by.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Mar 2018

      5. In The Big Lebowski, the Dude's nonchalant New Leftism is contrasted with an array of other ideologies; his rich namesakes Reaganism, Walter's neo-con belligerence, Maude Lebowksi's feminism, the nihilists, etc.

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Mar 2018

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Jeet Heer

      6. As I suggested in an earlier thread, The Big Lebowski manifests a core them the Coen's often return to: the decline of the American left:https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/601874370290589696 …

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      1. The Coen Brothers and the defeat of the American left, a twitter essay (with help from many readers).
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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Mar 2018

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Steve Katz

      7. The Dude is New Leftist in a period where the Left has disappeared ("Your revolution is over, Mr. Lebowski! Condolences! The bums lost!"). His diffident disengagement is a response:https://twitter.com/steve_katz/status/972157180060119040 …

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      Steve Katz @steve_katz
      @HeerJeet and his "nonchalance" - the very essence of The Dude - is a survival strategy in hard times. Totally missed the politics of the film first time I saw it. It was only when I watched it again last year that it came through, just how subversive The Dude is. https://twitter.com/steve_katz/status/972156768569540608 …
      9:12 AM - 9 Mar 2018
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        1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Mar 2018

          8. The Dude abides. And the Big Lebowski abides. Despite getting "meh" reviews, it stature has only grown. I have more thoughts on the film here:https://newrepublic.com/article/147341/film-critics-blind-big-lebowskis-brilliance …

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        1. Slothrop‏ @gnocchiwizard 9 Mar 2018
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          eh, i'd say it's more of an adaptation

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        1. Servant of the Sacred Fire‏ @RevAndyKarlson 9 Mar 2018
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          And his half-hearted solipsism is a characteristically American response, too.

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        1. Laurie Wagner‏ @laurie_wagner 9 Mar 2018
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          In Heers case its being oblivious to his surroundings, a little out of it so to speak

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        1. R F Latta‏ @depistemology 9 Mar 2018
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          The Boomer Dudes I know have inherited the old folks home w/asset inflation and they are no longer abiding, they are entrenched, even some down low Trumpists. Definition of Classical Liberal for all ages; defenders of the economic and social status quo.

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        1. The Rooster‏ @andrewnlevine 9 Mar 2018
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          But the Dude's response to "The Bums lost!" is that he goes right ahead and takes any rug in the house. It would appear the bums have one for the moment.

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