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David Chapman

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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 24 Oct 2019
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      I haven’t seen the movie (and won’t) so I’ll have to respond to the underlying question instead. I read _Arkham Asylum_ when it came out. I was still a graduate student, in the hand-cranked computer era, so my memory is … nearly null

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    2. St. Rev  ☯️ 🏴 😻‏ @St_Rev 24 Oct 2019
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      Comment was inspired by your RT but not about the movie. Mostly about Morrison's 2000-2009 work on the character, which is, of course, obscure. There were plot elements hinging on Batman having studied Dzogchen.

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    3. St. Rev  ☯️ 🏴 😻‏ @St_Rev 24 Oct 2019
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      I guess to expand a bit, Joker can be seen as malevolent fluidity more or less through the character's history; Batman as benevolent fluidity is more about Morrison's particular take.

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    4. St. Rev  ☯️ 🏴 😻‏ @St_Rev 24 Oct 2019
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      In Arkham Asylum Morrison was mostly working through a Hermetic framework. 20 years later, though...

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    5. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 24 Oct 2019
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      Pedantic footnote no one should care about: what Grant Morrison describes here sounds more like “the purification of the lokas,” which is part of the Dzogchen ngöndro (preliminary practices), than like tögal.

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    6. St. Rev  ☯️ 🏴 😻‏ @St_Rev 24 Oct 2019
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      I can't remember the correct form of the dancing bear/singing pig proverb here, the one that ends 'what's impressive is that it does it at all'

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    7. St. Rev  ☯️ 🏴 😻‏ @St_Rev 24 Oct 2019
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      Morrison's core tradition is chaos magick, so one expects a certain degree of carelessness about the fine points.

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    8. St. Rev  ☯️ 🏴 😻‏ @St_Rev 24 Oct 2019
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      Anyway, bottom line is me waving my hands vaguely at the idea that 'fluidity' has something to offer in understanding the characters and their dynamic, and maybe (less sure) vice versa.

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 24 Oct 2019
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      Thank you! I make a distinction between “atomized” and “fluid”—basically, whether partial coherence is reintroduced on a creative, impermanent basis. Do either or both characters seem fluid rather than atomized?

      11:44 AM - 24 Oct 2019
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        2. St. Rev  ☯️ 🏴 😻‏ @St_Rev 24 Oct 2019
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          The Joker, pretty obviously. The Joker has no special abilities, no consistent skillset, no concrete assets, no stable history and no real name. Somehow this makes him one of the most important and frightening beings in the universe.

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        3. St. Rev  ☯️ 🏴 😻‏ @St_Rev 24 Oct 2019
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          He's constantly reconstructed around a few fixed points, everything else is a palimpsest. Morrison's Batman is more arcane. Morrison tried to take Batman's entire history, in and out of the comics, and enfold it into a single persona who could have been all of those people.

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