When Chris reference his son and his Legos, (first I laughed out loud) I flashed back to my own childhood in which I used my (knock-off) snap-together bricks to build phaser pistols, Klingon disrupters, Lost-in-Space laser pistols, and other sundry TV weaponry, defeating Mom's attempts to keep us from destructive elements. Ironically, in the 60s and 70s the toys for boys still featured GI Joe and other similar elements of violence. Also agree with Glen's observations of the overtly patriarchal aspects of Tom Selleck's "Blue Bloods". But I also recall Tom Selleck's appearance on the Rosie O’Donnell show, in which Rosie did a really big reveal of her own leftism which was the beginning her downfall into losing her audience and, eventually, her show and her public reveal of all her other fascio-feminist attitudes and behaviors.
I don't understand how you can say "great literature" and "Hemmingway" to refer to the same thing. I've only read "The old man and the sea" But it seemed to be modernist slop. He stripped all the beauty and joy, and described a bleak materialist world. Nothing great about it.
I’m not a Hemingway fan either. I read “The Sun Also Rises” and it was ok, but that’s it. Jack London, John Steinbeck, George Orwell, Flannery O’Conner, Harper Lee, etc… Yes - great literature. Not so much with Hemingway.
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Great topic, great discussion.
When Chris reference his son and his Legos, (first I laughed out loud) I flashed back to my own childhood in which I used my (knock-off) snap-together bricks to build phaser pistols, Klingon disrupters, Lost-in-Space laser pistols, and other sundry TV weaponry, defeating Mom's attempts to keep us from destructive elements. Ironically, in the 60s and 70s the toys for boys still featured GI Joe and other similar elements of violence.
Also agree with Glen's observations of the overtly patriarchal aspects of Tom Selleck's "Blue Bloods". But I also recall Tom Selleck's appearance on the Rosie O’Donnell show, in which Rosie did a really big reveal of her own leftism which was the beginning her downfall into losing her audience and, eventually, her show and her public reveal of all her other fascio-feminist attitudes and behaviors.
I don't understand how you can say "great literature" and "Hemmingway" to refer to the same thing. I've only read "The old man and the sea" But it seemed to be modernist slop. He stripped all the beauty and joy, and described a bleak materialist world. Nothing great about it.
I’m not a Hemingway fan either. I read “The Sun Also Rises” and it was ok, but that’s it.
Jack London, John Steinbeck, George Orwell, Flannery O’Conner, Harper Lee, etc… Yes - great literature. Not so much with Hemingway.
Read Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover series. She deals with Feminism vs Patriarchy on a world named Darkover, modern technocracy vs nature.
Perhaps young men are avoiding fiction because they are looking for more reality. Peterson and Saad books are doing well with younger men.