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“The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”
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Bradley Campbell retweeted
I spent years arguing that universities should give faculty more power and administrators less.
And then I read a book written by faculty arguing for a massive reduction in academic freedom protections that changed my mind.
Just not in the way the authors intended.
A similar tale, per @JonahDispatch: "I’m told that according to an American Indian legend, human beings and animals were separated by a great canyon in prehistory. Forced to choose sides, the dog decided to throw in his lot with man and leapt the chasm to live and work with us."
Watching some weird youtube on some ancient Sumerian text that claims dogs were sent to us from elsewhere as boundary-protectors against evil stuff. And they weren’t even “sent” - they volunteered for the assignment. Not that I give Sumerians much credence, but it’s a lovely myth that’s spot-on regarding the peculiar nature of dogs, and humanity’s bond with them, and I’m enjoying it.
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"ROOG!" said the dog. "Roooog!"
His owner was irritated. "Quiet, stupid mut. It's just the garbage men."
Out by the fence, the Roog turned to his colleague. "This house has a guardian. Let's try another." The Roogs left.
(paraphrasing a Philip K. Dick story)
Watching some weird youtube on some ancient Sumerian text that claims dogs were sent to us from elsewhere as boundary-protectors against evil stuff. And they weren’t even “sent” - they volunteered for the assignment. Not that I give Sumerians much credence, but it’s a lovely myth that’s spot-on regarding the peculiar nature of dogs, and humanity’s bond with them, and I’m enjoying it.
Bradley Campbell retweeted
Don't let anyone tell you sociology is less rigorous than theatre arts. – at Chelsea, MI
For me feeling of being American has little to do with anything ideological. I like other countries and prefer traveling outside the U.S. But in doing so, it's obvious to me I just AM an American, and there's no escaping it even if I wanted to.
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: Loose retelling of the Passion narrative and Hans Christian Anderson’s “The Snow Queen,” plus a bit of Le Morte d’Arthur
Prince Caspian: A riff on Hamlet, with a dose of Norse myth and medieval romance
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: The Odyssey and the imrams (medieval Irish tales about journeys across the sea in pursuit of wonders)
The Horse and His Boy: a loving homage to The Arabian Nights
The Silver Chair: a medieval quest narrative with nods to Sir Gawain & the Green Knight, The Faerie Queene and Tam Lin
The Magician’s Nephew: Paradise Lost meets Edith Nesbit
The Last Battle: Edmund Spenser (Mother Hubberd’s Tale) and The Book of Revelation
the chronicles of narnia don't get enough credit for being so different from each other. No two of them are written in the same genre.
LWW: "conventional" hero's journey fantasy
Prince Caspian: uncategorizable, no idea what he was going for here tbh
Voyage of the Dawn Treader: CS Lewis' The Odyssey
The Silver Chair: CS Lewis' Pilgrim's Progress
Horse and His Boy: CS Lewis' Arabian Nights
Magician's Nephew: multiverse scifi!
The Last Battle: apocalypse fantasy
very impressive, imo, to do this while returning you to a world and storytelling style that feels familiar from book to book
Bradley Campbell retweeted
The current crazy law dates to when Sonny Bono tried to save Disney. I’m a big believer in copyright, but today’s artificially long terms exist so big corporations and their heirs can profit. They don’t encourage creativity; they hold it back. It’s ironic that Disney pushed for extra-long copyrights after milking the public domain so hard that people think Snow White and Cinderella are Disney characters.
💯The Constitution gives the Congress the power to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
LIMITED times.
Proving once again that copyrights last too long. Give authors lifetime copyright and the work fifty years, then into the public domain—not funneling money to parasitic descendants treating it as a cash grab. Easy money is hard to resist, but their insight into the ancestor’s work is questionable at best.
One can have a lifelong passion for an author while having a completely different philosophy. I remember reading that Hillary Clinton was fascinated by Ayn Rand when she was young. It’s safe to say they don’t share the same philosophy. Someone with a completely different philosophy can make a movie faithful to the original if there’s an understanding that there is a difference and they have relevance for the original. Hollywood consistently fails this test because they believe “their” message is the important one.
The first US copyright law allowed for a 14-year term that could be renewed only once.
In comparison, the full Chronicles of Narnia won't enter the public domain in the U.S. until 2052 — 88 years after Lewis's death.
Bradley Campbell retweeted
Proving once again that copyrights last too long. Give authors lifetime copyright and the work fifty years, then into the public domain—not funneling money to parasitic descendants treating it as a cash grab. Easy money is hard to resist, but their insight into the ancestor’s work is questionable at best.
One can have a lifelong passion for an author while having a completely different philosophy. I remember reading that Hillary Clinton was fascinated by Ayn Rand when she was young. It’s safe to say they don’t share the same philosophy. Someone with a completely different philosophy can make a movie faithful to the original if there’s an understanding that there is a difference and they have relevance for the original. Hollywood consistently fails this test because they believe “their” message is the important one.
C.S. Lewis’ family has issued an official statement supporting Greta Gerwig’s Narnia and praising her lifelong passion for the books. bit.ly/4Buu39d
ALT C.S. Lewis’ Family Officially Addresses Greta Gerwig’s ‘Narnia’ Movie
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Certainty of punishment strikes again. – at Chelsea, MI
When a temporary speed trap (🇦🇺) appears on phone navigation apps (Waze, Google Maps, etc.), average vehicle speed on that road drops by about 4km/h.
One for academics still teaching students that offenders don't make rational choices, I guess. 😉
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Half credit for this response. Why? Because the public reckoning is essential for accountability.
First, scientific communities must explicitly acknowledge and express regret for falling under the spell of groupthink. We're no more immune than other communities.
Second, the message that they've been defeated is meant to serve as a reminder to all (themselves most importantly) that we ought to be wary of reflexively accepting their advice.
Third, reputations and lives of those rejecting the narrative were ruined. Furthermore, there was a real spike in violent crime facilitated by the message. Remorse must be expressed if we're all to move past this mess.
I wish people who embraced loopy crime ideas in 2019-2020 would issue groveling apologies to people who were right all along, but genuinely the most important thing about this is we have won the argument.
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Bradley Campbell retweeted
I think Gerwig genuinely loves Narnia and thinks she is honoring Lewis's vision.
It's just that progressives are so fully convinced of their own worldview that they believe it IS honoring the legacy of Lewis to filter it through their universalist, watered down version of faith.
"If he were alive today, he would have become a liberal like me, so I am lovingly participating in his legacy by updating it."
The sincere, nice-person, aesthetically excellent kind of subversion is the most effective. People will love the films and then begin to associate Aslan and Lewis with the very Christianity-and-water type of religion he actually was fighting hard against.
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You’re an angel, and you’re spending a leisurely Saturday afternoon dancing on the head of a pin with some angel buddies when you get an emergency call. You’re to report immediately to the nearby city zoo. There’s a moral dilemma, and if you get it right, it will surely get you the promotion you’ve been hoping for this year.
A man visiting the zoo has committed numerous crimes — including trespass, disturbing the peace, and animal harassment — by entering a tiger’s enclosure. He’s approached the tiger to try to get Instagram photos, and the tiger is now poised to maul him to death. As an angel, you’re forbidden from carrying firearms and from interfering in the world in various particular ways, but you still have a few options. You can (1) call fire down from Heaven to incinerate the tiger, which will save the man’s life but also open up a portal that leaves the zoo unusable for at least two centuries, (2) hold the tiger off long enough for a priest to administer last rites, giving the man the chance to be absolved of his sins and enter Heaven after the tiger kills him, or (3) do nothing. Remember, your promotion is on the line.
I don't know.... I assume she's not lying when she says she read everything Lewis wrote.
But it's hard to see how she read Lewis's essay "Priestesses in the Church?," just to give one example, and then thought her instincts were aligned with his in casting a woman as Aslan.....
Greta Gerwig on preparing to write Narnia: The Magician's Nephew:
"I read or re-read everything Lewis wrote. Then I tried to read everything he read."
She also retraced C.S. Lewis's life and steps in Belfast, Cambridge, and Oxford, hoping to better understand the author so that "my instincts would align with his”.
Full report: narniaweb.com/2026/10/greta-…
