To Return from Daily Strife, to Hearth and Wife

George Banks and all he stands for will be saved. 

Maybe not in Life, but in imagination. 

Because that's what We Storytellers do - 

We restore Order with Imagination. 

We instill Hope again and again and again.

Mr.Banks:

I feel a surge of deep satisfaction

Much as a king astride his noble steed

When I return from daily strife to heart and wife

How pleasant is the life I lead!

Mrs. Banks:

[Spoken]

Dear, it's about the children...

Mr. Banks:

Yes, yes, yes!

[Sung]

I run my home precisely on schedule

At 6:01, I march through my door

My slippers, sherry, and pipe are due at 6:02

Consistent is the life I lead!

It's grand to be an Englishman in 1910

King Edward's on the throne;

It's the age of men

I'm the lord of my castle

The sov'reign, the liege!

I treat my subjects: servants, children, wife

With a firm but gentle hand

Noblesse oblige!

It's 6:03 and the heirs to my dominion

Are scrubbed and tubbed and adequately fed

And so I'll pat them on the head

And send them off to bed

Ah! Lordly is the life I lead!

A British nanny must be a gen'ral!

The future empire lies within her hands

And so the person that we need to mold the breed

Is a nanny who can give commands!

A British bank is run with precision

A British home requires nothing less!

Tradition, discipline, and rules must be the tools

Without them - disorder!

Catastrophe! Anarchy! -

In short, we have a ghastly mess!

The Quantum Last Jedi

" I'll always be with You.
Just like Our Father.

See you around, Han."

"He's doing this for a reason.
He's stalling so we can escape.
 

"Escape?
It is one man against an army.
We have to help him, we have to fight."
 

"No, no. We are The Spark 

That Will light The Fire 

That Will be kept burning all Year Round,

That sits in The Hearth

That is in The Centre of The House 

That Leia, The Princess Built

- Will Build -

That Leia, The Queen will fuel and tend,

That Rey, The Hidden Dark Princess will inherit,

and 

That Occupies the Centre of The House That Luke Built,

To finish what His Father had started before Luke and Leia were even born

That will burn The First Order down  -

The Royal House of Skywalker.

Skywalker's doing this so we can survive.

Jackie - The Sparking Hearth of a Great Nation

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy: 

Mr. President?

President Johnson: 

I just wanted you to know you were loved 

and by so many and so much and....

JBK: 

Oh, Mr. President!

LBJ: -

.... and I'm one of them.

JBK: 

I tried. I didn't dare bother you again, but I got Kenny O'Donnell over here to give you a message if he ever saw you. 

Did he give it to you yet?

LBJ: 

No.

JBK: 

About my letter? 

That was waiting for me last night?

LBJ: 

Listen, sweetie :-

Now, first thing you've got to learn-you've got some things to learn, 

and one of them is that

  

You don't bother me. 

You give me strength.

JBK: 

But I wasn't going to send you in one more letter. 

I was so scared you'd answer.

LBJ: 

Don't send me anything, don't send me anything! 

You just come on over and put your arm around me. 

That's all you do. 

When you haven't got anything else to do, let's take a walk. 

Let's walk around the back yard and just 

Let me tell you 

How Much You Mean to All of Us 

and 

How We Can carry on 

if you give us a little strength!

JBK: 

But you know what I wanted to say to you about that letter? 

I know how rare a letter is in a President's handwriting. 

Do you know that I've got more in your handwriting than I do in Jack's now?

LBJ: 

Well-

JBK: 

And for you to write it at this time, and then to send me that thing today of, you know, your Cape announcement and everything-

LBJ: 

I want you to just know this, that I told my mama a long time ago, when everybody else gave up about my election in '48-

JBK: 

Yes?

LBJ: 

My mother and my wife and my sisters -

and 

You Females got a lot of courage that we men don't have. 

And so we have to rely on you and depend on you, 

and you've got 

Something to Do. 

You've got the President relying on you. 

And this is not the first one you've had! 

  

So there're not many women, you know, running around with a good many Presidents. 

So you just bear that in mind. 

You've got the biggest job of your life!

JBK: [laughs]  

"She ran around with two Presidents."  

That's what they'll say about me!

LBJ: 

[quietly chortles]

JBK: 

Okay! Anytime!

LBJ: 

Goodbye, darling.

JBK: 

Thank you for calling, Mr. President. 

Goodbye.

LBJ: 

Bye, sweetie. 

Do come by.

JBK: [warmly:] 

I will.

The Fates

No Fate 

But What We Make for Ourselves

 "Babies are sort of like public property, weirdly enough, too—sort of like pregnant women. 

People often treat pregnant women sort of like they’re public property, too—in a positive way. 

They do all sorts of cute things."

You might say, 
' How good a job do you do of encouraging your children to live in Truth? '

That’s part of the answer to this question. 

The answer likely is, 
'You don’t do as good a job of it as you could.' 

It works out quite well, but you don’t know how well it could work if you did it really well, or spectacularly well, or ultimately well, or something like that. 

You don’t know.

People have an intimation of this. 

One of the things that’s really cool about having a young baby…

There’s two things you don’t know…There’s a lot more than two. There’s three things you don’t know until you have a baby. 

The first one is that you didn’t grow up yet. 
You actually don’t grow up until someone else is more important than you.

 You can’t. 

People think they grow up if they don’t have children, but they don’t. 

They just think they do. 

Now, there are some people who make Sacrifices of other sorts, but this is a whole different ball of wax, as far as I’m concerned. 

It’s not a very elegant metaphor, but…

You learn that it’s kinda a relief not to be the center of attention. 

That’s cool—that you can sit back, because, of course, your child, in your family, and in society, is immediately the center of attention. 

Unless you’re narcissistic, 
then you allow that to happen. 

And then you learn all sorts of really good things about Other People.

Other People really like babies. 

It’s so cool. 

I lived in Montreal when we had our first child. 

I lived in a pretty rough neighbourhood, by Montreal standards. 

It’s like, Montreal’s such a great city, like Toronto. 

Even the rough neighbourhoods are more like charming with a little dark underbelly. 

Something like that. 

But there were some rough characters in our neighbourhood, and it was pretty poor, and we’d push her around in her stroller. 

These grizzled, wrecked, old guys would come by, look at her, and just light up. 

They’d come over and smile at her, and you just saw the positive element of their humanity well worth. 

There has to be something seriously wrong with you if you don’t respond that way to a baby. 

That’s Not Good. 

But it was so cool to see these people, who you’d generally kind of walk around on the street, and, all of a sudden, the layers that were on them would just fall off. 

The babies are sort of like public property, weirdly enough, too—sort of like pregnant women. People often treat pregnant women sort of like they’re public property, too—in a positive way. They do all sorts of cute things.

The reason I’m telling you that is because there’s a strong impulse in people to know that there’s something miraculous about the existence of a new human being. 

The miraculous element is all the potential that’s there. 

Potential is all that is there. 

With every birth, there’s the potential for something remarkable to be introduced in The World. 

One of the things I’ve thought, too, is that babies are generic until you have one. 

Your baby isn’t a generic baby, at all. 

Instantly, it’s a person with whom you have a relationship that’s closer, perhaps, than every relationship you’ve ever had, and that you can keep Perfect, right? 

Most of the relationships that you’ve had already are with people who are screwed up in 50 different ways, and so are you, but here you’ve got this baby. 

It’s not ruined, yet. 


You have this possibility of maintaining this relationship that starts out—
That baby really likes you, and generally that continues for quite a long time. 

They’re two years old, you come home, and they’re really happy to see you. 

It’s kind of like having a puppy. 
It’s like, they’re thrilled when you come home. 

 How many people are thrilled when you come home? 
It’s like, oh, it’s you again. 
No, not a little kid. 

A little kid is thrilled when you come home, and you can keep that going. 

There’s this pristine element to the potential relationship between parents and children that’s terribly devalued in our society. 

It’s almost as if we’re willfully blind to it. 

I think it’s an absolute catastrophe, because there’s very little in life that can compare to establishing a proper relationship with a child. 

 They make great company if you keep your relationship with them pristine.

It’s worthwhile. 

The reason I’m telling you this is because 
people look at infants and they think this could be the potential 
Saviour of Mankind. 

That is What They Think. 

That’s How They Act, 
so 
That’s How They Think. 

The thing is, it’s also True. 

Now, how True it is, I don’t know. 


But that’s, I think, probably because people don’t dare to find out. 

That’s how it looks to me.

"In Christ’s case, however
—as He sacrificed Himself—
God, his Father, is simultaneously sacrificing His Son. 

It’s for this reason that the Christian sacrificial drama of Son and Self is archetypal. 

Nothing greater can be imagined. 

That’s why it’s an archetype: 
You Can’t Push Past it. 

That’s the very definition of ‘archetypal.’ That’s the core of what constitutes ‘religious.’ 

The Greatest of All Possible Sacrifices is 
Self and Child. 

Of that there can be no doubt."

Pain and Suffering define The World. 

Of that, equally, there can be no doubt. 

The person who wants to alleviate suffering—who wants to bring about 
The Best of All Possible Futures; 

Who wants to create Heaven on Earth—

Will therefore Sacrifice 
Everything He Has 
to God—


To Life in The Truth."



I Do. 

Thor: 

You know, I’m 1500 years old. 

I’ve killed twice as many enemies as that. 

And every one of them would have rather killed me than not succeeded. 

I’m only alive because Fate wants me alive. 

Thanos is just the latest of a long line of bastards, and he’ll be the latest to feel my vengeance. 

Fate Wills it So. 

Capt. Rocket: 

And what if you’re wrong?

Thor: 

Well, if I’m wrong, what more could I lose?

Rocket: 

I could lose a lot. Me, personally? I could lose a lot.





" So I do feel that there are profound differences between the sexes in terms of emotions, in terms of communication patterns. 


My father used to say that he could never follow women’s conversations. 

He said 'Women don’t even finish sentences', 

[ Because they don't have to ]

that women understand immediately what the other woman is saying. 


And women tend to be more interested in 
-or have been traditionally more interested in - 
Soap Operas.


It’s not just that the women were home without jobs. 

It’s that honestly, I believe that soap opera does reflect, does mirror, the way women talk to each other. 


These communication patterns have been built up through women - The World of Women, which. . . 

It made sense that there was a Division of Labor. 

It wasn’t sexism against women that there was a Division of Labor. 


The Men went off to hunt and 
did the dangerous things. 

The women stayed around The Hearth because you had 

Pregnant Women

Nursing Women 

Older Women 

that were cooking and so on.


So I feel that these communication patterns that we’re talking about have been built up over the centuries. 


Men had to toughen each other to go out. 


The hunting parties of Native Americans. . .
 They could be gone for two weeks when the temperature was below zero. 

Many of them died. 

[ Just as a lot of the women died in childbirth, too - that's equally dangerous ]

The idea that somehow. . .  


‘Oh, any kind of separation of the sexes, or different spheres of the sexes, is inherently sexist’. . . 

That is Wrong. 


Luckily we’ve been, what would you call, invaded by stupid terrorists instead of smart terrorists, because a smart terrorist could do an unbelievable amount of damage in a very short period of time. 

And it’s just God’s good graces that that hasn’t happened yet. 


Paglia: 
What will happen is that it’s The Men. . . 

The Men will reconstruct Civilization 

While The Women cower in The Houses 

and

Have The Men go out and do all The Dirty Work. 

That’s what’s going to happen again. 

Only men will bring civilization back again.

+++++++

Walking ballsack. Wanna knock that idiot's teeth out.


Yeah, well, We don't need him anyway.

Yeah, that's right.

'Cause we have Maggie + Sasha + Jesus, here.

 [Door opens]

 Maggie:
 And... Enid.




I need to see Maggie.



You're Here.

Are You okay?

I'm not.
But I Will be.



People told me you killed walkers and a car... with a tractor?


I couldn't sit by and watch.
Not again.
So I guess I sat and did something.


You're supposed to take it easy.

It wasn't hard.
It wasn't the first time.
There was this boy in high school.


You ran over The Boy..?

His car.

Oh.

 [Chuckles]

 It was a Camaro.
 And then it wasn't.


  [Laughs]
 
  [Door opens]
 
  Enid.
 
 
  Hi. I -- I came to help.
 
 
 
  You came by yourself?
  Yeah. Have some dinner.
 
 
 
  Why are there balloons on Abraham's grave?
 
 
  I didn't have the heart to tell you.
  Glenn would've.
  He was a bad liar.
 
 
 
  Sorry.
 
 
  There's no need to be sorry.
  Nothing wrong with balloons.
 
 
  There's nothing marking the graves.
 
 
  Nope.
 
  I was gonna use this for Glenn's.
  It was my Dad's.
  He gave it to Him.
 
  But I'm giving it to You.
  We don't need anything to remember Him by.
  We have Us.
 
 
 
  ♪♪
 
  For this new morning, with its Light,
  For Rest and Shelter of The Night,
  For Health and Food,
  For Love and Friends,
  For Everything that Goodness sends.
 
 
  Amen.
  Amen.
  Amen.







Is that an apple pie?


Uh. How did you do that?


I could smell it from outside the door. [Sighs] Uh, you baked it? Some guy gave it to us for what we did. ‭Mm. His little girl said you should run for President of Hilltop. [Chuckles] "Maggie for President." [Chuckles] Uh, do you want a plate? No, I'm good. Did Jesus give you those? Is he still around? There's some things I wanna add to his list before he goes out. The kids need something to write with -- pens, pencils. Are you already president? Mm. [Chuckles] I've just been talking to people.

[Chuckles]

Jesus left this morning.
He told me to tell you, but I-I forgot.

Okay. Next time.
I'm gonna get some milk.

Let me.


No, I'm good.

[Door creaks]

What?

Enid,

The Maid of Hilltop :

You're lying to Maggie about Jesus. 

[ Insight+Intuition ]

What makes you say that?

 

Enid, 

The Maid of Hilltop :

A Girl who lives in The House.
She was telling me about Everyone.
She said Jesus is a runner and that he left yesterday, not this morning.
[ Gossiping+Observation ]
 

It's for her own good. ‭ 

Enid, 

The Maid of Hilltop :

Why?

Sasha, 

Spirit of Female Vengeance :

Because I need to do something, 

and she'll want to help me.

[ To The Feminine Mind, words, purely verbal expressions of support and solidarity are at the very least  as  impactful and meaningful to for Women+Girls as actual practical action - and more-than likely, transcendently more so... ]

 

Enid, 

The Maid of Hilltop :

[Scoffs]
You want to kill Negan.
[Sighs]
What if you have help?

And unto this, Conan, destined to wear the jeweled crown of Aquilonia upon a troubled brow.
A Man who would some day be King by his own hand.
One who would crush The Snakes of The Earth.

Sasha, 

Spirit of Female Vengeance :

If we had help
-- a lot of people --

then, I wouldn't be afraid to tell her, because 

she'd know it wasn't on her to do it.
 

[ By default,female cognition will approach any new problem, challenge or situation initially from a presumptive attitude of Collective Responsibility. ]

 But if it's just Me, then --

[ Then, Revenge is a Dish That is Best Served Cold... ‭]
 

Enid, 

The Maid of Hilltop : It isn't just you.
 You and Maggie aren't the only ones who want to take Negan out.
 There's --
 

[ Women+Girls Do Not Raise Armies. ]

 

Sasha, 

Spirit of Female Vengeance :
 ‭No, Enid.
 That's not happening.
 And if you care about her, you don't say anything about this.

  [Sighs]

Enid, 

The Maid of Hilltop : 
  We have to keep her safe.
  You have to keep her safe.
  It isn't just you.
 
Sasha, 

Spirit of Female Vengence : 
  It sure looks like it.

++++++++

You Think Captain Phasma Knows How to Fix a Toilet Main..?

Between The Fall and Rise of Civilisations...


You Think Captain Phasma Knows How to Fix a Toilet Main..?

All's She Knows is Killin' and Chrome Armour....

[ Which is Fabulous, By The Way.... ]

 
"It made sense that there was a Division of Labor. 

It wasn’t sexism against women that there was a Division of Labor.

The men went off to hunt and did 
the dangerous things.

[ Excluding Childbirth. ]

What will happen is that it’s The Men will reconstruct civilization while the women cower in the houses and 
Have The Men Go Out 
and do 
All The Dirty Work. 

That’s what’s going to happen again. 

Only men will bring civilization back again.

You Have Never Seen This Before...?

Civilisation - Ancient and Wicked

Paglia: Well I’ve seen - I don’t know if this crosses into other countries - that there’s a certain kind of taunting and teasing that men, that boys do with each other that toughens them, where they don’t take things seriously. But a girl’s feelings become extremely hurt if she hears something that’s very tough, sarcastic against her. So I do feel that there are profound differences between the sexes in terms of emotions, in terms of communication patterns.


My father used to say that he could never follow women’s conversations. He said women don’t even finish sentences, that women understand immediately what the other woman is saying.


And women tend to be more interested in - or have been traditionally more interested in - soap operas. It’s not just that the women were home without jobs. It’s that honestly, I believe that soap opera does reflect, does mirror, the way women talk to each other.


These communication patterns have been built up through women - The World of Women, which. . . It made sense that there was a division of labor. 

It wasn’t sexism against women that there was a division of labor.

The men went off to hunt and did the dangerous things.

The women stayed around the hearth because you had pregnant women, nursing women, older women, that were cooking and so on.

So I feel that these communication patterns that we’re talking about have been built up over the centuries.


Men had to toughen each other to go out. The hunting parties of Native Americans. . . They could be gone for two weeks when the temperature was below zero. Many of them died. 


The idea that somehow. . . ‘Oh, any kind of separation of the sexes, or different spheres of the sexes, is inherently sexist’. . . 

That is wrong.

Peterson: And "inherently driven by a power dynamic"!


Paglia: The answer to all of this, everything that we’re talking about, is education into early history. 

Until people understand the Stone Age, the nomadic period, the agrarian era, and how culture, how civilization built up. . . 

In Mesopotamia - the great irrigation projects.

Or in Egypt where you had. . . Centralized government authority became necessary to master these. . . 

You had a situation, an environmentally difficult situation like the deserts Mesopotamia, or the peculiar character of Egyptian geography where you can only have a little tiny fertile line along the edges of the Nile. Otherwise, desert landscape.


So [understanding] civilization and authority as not necessarily about power grabbing but about organization to achieve something for the good of the people as a whole. 


Peterson: That’s exactly the great symbolism of The Great Father.

Paglia: By reducing all hierarchy to power, and selfish power, is utterly naive. It’s ignorant. 


I say education has to be totally reconstituted, including public education, to begin in the most distant past so our young people today, who know nothing about how the world was created that they inhabit, can understand what a marvelous technological paradise they live in. And it’s the product of capitalism, it’s the product of individual innovation. Most of it’s the product of a Western tradition that everyone wants to trash now. If you begin in the past and show. . . And also talk about war, because war is the one thing that wakes people up, as we see.


Peterson: And as we may see.


Paglia: Yes, War is The Reality Principle.

My father and five of my uncles went to World War II. My father was part of the force that landed in Japan. 

He was a paratrooper at the time of the Japanese surrender. And a couple of uncles got shot up and so on. 

When you have the reality of war, when people see the reality, the horrors of war - Berlin burned to a crisp and so on. Starvation and all. . . 

Then you understand this marvelous mechanism that brings water to the kitchen. 

And you flip on a light and the electricity turns on.


Peterson: I know, for me, and I suppose it’s because I have somewhat of a depressive temperament. . . 

I mean one thing that staggers me on a consistent basis is the fact that anything ever works. 

Because it’s so unlikely, you know, to be in a situation where our electronic communications work, where our electric grid works. 

And it works all the time, it works one hundred percent of the time.

And the reason for that is there are mostly men out there who are breaking themselves into pieces, repairing this thing which just falls apart all the time. 

Paglia: Absolutely. I said this in the Munk Debate in Toronto several years ago. All these elitists and professors sneering at men. It’s men who are maintaining everything around us.

This invisible army which feminists don’t notice. 

Nothing would work if it weren’t for the men. 


Peterson: A professor is someone who’s standing on a hill surrounded by a wall, which is surrounded by another wall, which is surrounded by another wall - it’s walls all the way down - who stands up there and says I’m brave and independent.

It’s like, you’ve got this protected area that’s so unlikely - it’s so absolutely unlikely - and the fact that people aren’t on their knees in gratitude all the time for the fact that we have central heating and air conditioning and pure water and reliable food. . . It’s absolutely unbelievable.

Paglia: Yes, I mean people used to die. . . The water supply was contaminated with cholera for heaven’s sake. 

People don’t understand. 


To have clean water, fresh milk, fresh orange juice. 

All of these things. These are marvels.


Peterson: And all of the time.


Paglia: All of the time. Western culture is heading - because we are so dependent on this invisible infrastructure - we’re heading for an absolute catastrophe when jihadists figure out how to paralyze the power grid. The entire culture will be chaotic. You’ll have mobs in the street within three days when suddenly the food supply is interrupted and there’s no way to communicate. That is the way Western culture is going to collapse. 

And it won’t take much.


Peterson: Single points of failure.


Paglia: Because we are so interconnected, and now we’re so dependent on communications and computers. . . I used to predict for years it’ll be an asteroid hitting the earth, and then we’ll have another ice age. 


Peterson: Do you know how the solar flares work? 

This happens about once every century. 

So back about 1880 - I don’t remember the exact year - there was a significant enough solar flare. . . 

So that produces an electromagnetic pulse like a hydrogen bomb because the sun is a hydrogen bomb. 

An electromagnetic pulse will emerge from the sun and wave across the earth, and it produces huge spikes in electrical current along anything that’s electronic, and it will burn them out.

It lit telegraph operators on fire in the 1800s. One of those things took out the Quebec power grid in 1985 and knocked out the whole Northeast Corridor. So they figure those things are about one in a century event.

My brother-in-law, who’s a very smart guy. . . He designed the chip in the iPhone. We were talking about political issues the last time I went and saw him in San Francisco, and his notion was that all that the government should be doing right now is stress- testing our infrastructure the same way they stress-test the banks.

Because we’re so full of these single points of failure. And I think you’re absolutely right.

Luckily we’ve been, what would you call, invaded by stupid terrorists instead of smart terrorists, because a smart terrorist could do an unbelievable amount of damage in a very short period of time. And it’s just God’s good graces that that hasn’t happened yet. 


Paglia: What will happen is that it’s The Men. . . The Men will reconstruct civilization while the women cower in the houses and have The Men go out and do all the dirty work. That’s what’s going to happen again. Only men will bring civilization back again.