8/ Back to Lebowski: https://twitter.com/FreedomViking/status/1123205974544793601 …
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9/ Now, here's another interesting thing about Walter: He's presented as a joke. He's got no wife, he's got a random crappy job, he's always ranting about Nam. But Walter isn't a joke. He's just a man in the wrong place. He had a place: 'Nam In 'Nam, his personality worked
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10/ Walter is built for decisive action. The tragedy is that he has a life (bowling in LA) that doesn't call for decisive action or conflict. ...so he creates it (poorly, stupidly). He pulls a gun on Smokey.
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11/ But when an ACTUAL situation arises on its own (the Nihilists attack them), for about 10 seconds Walter is in his element, responds appropriately, and wins.
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12/ He uses improvised weapons to defeat multiple opponents armed with a sword. He has full situational awareness: he knows that Donnie wasn't shot, because - despite being involved in a melee - he was listening to everything, heard everything, knows no shots were fired.
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13/ The combat over, Walter IMMEDIATELY surveys the situation and calls for medical help for Donnie. It's too late, but that's no reflection on Walter. He went from calm to combat to calm to helping the wounded in 20 seconds. His performative outrage is a SKILL !
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14/ His ability to turn it on and off on a dime is a SKILL. The tragedy of The Big Lebowski is that everyone is in the wrong place. The Dude belongs back on a college campus in 1968. Walter belongs back in 'Nam in the same year. The movie is about living too long.
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15/ Only Donnie escapes.
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Replying to @MorlockP
I've seen this personality type in real life, keeping their trigger subject at the ready to produce righteous anger as needed and force retreat by others, even if the subject was only vaguely related.
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One particular manifestation I've run into multiple times is the white guy with a black wife. This is weirdly invoked out of the blue when an argument isn't going their way, "Yeah, well my wife is black, so what do you think about that?"
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