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Put across lots of good affirmations – "Oh, really?
As direct as films like "Poison" were about desire and sexuality, they had little interest in feel-good affirmation.
"Deep Thoughts," which were later collected in a series of popular volumes, were designed to satirize the genre of the feel-good affirmation.
What are the goods affirmation of which makes intelligible these inclinations?
King Ralph upends your moral instincts, and does it with such cheerily unblinking certainty of its own rightness that it pierces all our carefully-assembled social niceties, all of those subtle-sinister good-mannered affirmations that lead us to believe we could never take up arms, that we could never eat our neighbor's dog, that Bosnia "wouldn't happen here," that Rwanda was a one-off.
King Ralph upends your moral instincts, and does it with such cheerily unblinking certainty of its own rightness that it pierces all our carefully-assembled social niceties, all of those subtle-sinister good-mannered affirmations that lead us to believe we could never take up arms, that we could never eat our neighbour's dog, that Bosnia "wouldn't happen here", that Rwanda was a one-off.
King Ralph upends your moral instincts, and does it with such cheerily unblinking certainty of its own rightness that it pierces all our carefully assembled social niceties, all of those subtle, sinister good-mannered affirmations that lead us to believe we could never take up arms, that we could never eat our neighbor's dog, that Bosnia "wouldn't happen here," that Rwanda was a one-off.
"It's a good solitude, an affirmation that, in spite of everything, life goes on, that it's worth living.
As Leavy has documented in her knowing and kind biography, people knew Mantle was tormented, that his appetites were out of control, but just about everybody needed something from him, whether it was home runs or the glow of his smile on good days or affirmation of a juvenile America.
"It feels good to get affirmation," he explains.
A denial was as good as an affirmation in this media climate of factless amplification and dogmatic emotionalism.
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