Isaac Young (@HariSel57511397)

40k impressions and 1.1k likes? F*** it. I'll do an analysis of Eragon. One major caveat I want to get out of the way is that I'm aware of Paolini's extraordinarily young age when writing these books, and none of my critique is meant to reflect badly on the artist. /1 <span class="quote-card" data-...

Why the first Starship Troopers movie failed as a parody, a thread: Watching the movie, it was clear the director was aiming for a campy, over-the-top depiction of the Terran Federation. Perhaps not an outright mockery, but certainly a drastic departure from the serious novel. ...

Isaac Asimov espoused this view that Sci-Fi was important for charting future possibilities, the impacts of technologies and so on. I used to have this view, but now I completely disagree with it. Sci-Fi is no different than any other genre. It’s about the human soul. 1/ ...

It seems incredibly difficult for a certain cohort of white guys to reconcile their individualistic “go-getter” attitudes with systematic persecution. The thing they quietly sneered at minorities for complaining about is actually happening to them, and they can’t grasp it. <span class="quote-card" d...

Indiana Jones was a product of its time. His ideals of putting the whole of human history in a museum could only spring up in liberal fantasy. But history has not ended. The past is still alive, and these symbols move among us just as they did thousands of years ago. ...

Modern people have this really naive view of Christ’s Redemption of Mankind. They think it saves you from all earthly consequences, that as soon as you say the magic words, you instantly fix everything you broke in your life. /1 ...

For all the hate Game of Thrones rightfully gets, I am going to (temporarily) bat for it a second. I don’t think the West has moved on from GOT style storytelling, and it gets at a problem modern Christians have to deal with. A thread on a post GOT world 1/ ...

"All art is political" Let's take a step back and examine that statement. Why does Left always parrot this phrase? Why can't anyone else have their own interpretations? Why can't the woke just appreciate art? A thread🧵1/ <span class="quote-card" data-quote-index="0"></span>...

Founding Myths. We've all seen the 4chan post about how the Post-WW2 Consensus is the basis for modern society. But what about the Founding Myths of the future? More specifically, what about first contact is so tantalizing for the Left? A thread on our posthuman future 1/🧵 ...