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Kneel before Me.
I said KNEEL!
Is •not• this SIMPLER?
Is this •not• Your Natural State?
It's The Unspoken Truth of Humanity,
that you crave Subjugation.
The bright lure of Freedom
diminishes your Life's Joy
in a mad scramble for Power,
for IDENTITY.
You were •made• to be RULED.
In The End, you will •always• kneel.
From Alexander Hamilton to Edward Stevens, 11 November 1769
To Edward Stevens
St Croix Novemr. 11th 1769
Dear Edward
This just serves to acknowledge receipt of yours per Cap Lowndes which was delivered me Yesterday. The truth of Cap Lightbourn & Lowndes information is now verifyd by the Presence of your Father and Sister for whose safe arrival I Pray, and that they may convey that Satisfaction to your Soul that must naturally flow from the sight of Absent Friends in health, and shall for news this way refer you to them. As to what you say respecting your having soon the happiness of seeing us all, I wish, for an accomplishment of your hopes provided they are Concomitant with your welfare, otherwise not, tho doubt whether I shall be Present or not for to confess my weakness, Ned, my Ambition is prevalent that I contemn the grov’ling and condition of a Clerk or the like, to which my Fortune &c. condemns me and would willingly risk my life tho’ not my Character to exalt my Station. Im confident, Ned that my Youth excludes me from any hopes of immediate Preferment nor do I desire it, but I mean to prepare the way for futurity. Im no Philosopher you see and may be jusly said to Build Castles in the Air. My Folly makes me ashamd and beg youll Conceal it, yet Neddy we have seen such Schemes successfull when the Projector is Constant I shall Conclude saying I wish there was a War.
I am Dr Edward Yours
Alex Hamilton
PS I this moment receivd yours by William Smith and am pleasd to see you Give such Close Application to Study.
“It isn’t just that the self-appointed organizers of the ‘gay community’ have a particular view of politics. They also have a specific view of the alleged responsibilities that being gay brings with it.
In 2013 the novelist Bret Easton Ellis was reprimanded and banned from the annual media awards dinner by the gay organization GLAAD.
He had been found guilty of tweeting views about the asinine nature of gay television characters that GLAAD said ‘the gay community had responded negatively to’.
This censorious tone – the prim schoolmaster tone – is the same one Pink News unleashed with a straight face in 2018, with its list of ten ‘dos and don’ts’ for straight people on ‘how they should behave in gay bars’.
In all of these cases the normal instinct is to say ‘Just who the hell do you think you are?’
But after his reprimand for wrong-think Ellis managed to sum up what had become a whole part of the new gay problem.
This was, as he said, that we had come to live in ‘The reign of The Gay Man as Magical Elf, who whenever he comes out appears before us as some kind of saintly E.T. whose sole purpose is to be put in the position of reminding us only about Tolerance and Our Own Prejudices and To Feel Good About Ourselves and to be A Symbol.’
The reign of the magical gay elf has indeed been settled for the time being as one of the acceptable ways in which society has made its peace with homosexuality.
Gays can now marry like everybody, else can pretend that they have children in exactly the same way as everybody else, and in general prove – as Dustin Lance Black and Tom Daley do on their YouTube channel – that gays are unthreatening people who actually spend their lives being cute and making cupcakes.
As Ellis wrote, ‘The Sweet and Sexually Unthreatening and Super-Successful Gay is supposed to be destined to transform The Hets into noble gay-loving protectors – as long as the gay in question isn’t messy or sexual or difficult.’
The former enfant terrible of American fiction had put his finger on something here.”
•Lord Byron (yes, it's very old) called this the 'under look'.
•Many animals will express their aggression by taking this position. If an animal flattens their ears back while giving a Kubrick Stare, they may be planning to attack.
•Anthony Kiedis of Red Hot Chili Peppers describes his "seductive stare" as the "Classic Kiedis Chin Tilt". Needless to say, it is very much a Kubrick Stare
“Bond is a masculine fantasy, but of course, he ALSO appeals to women, though he oughtto look like Bad News.
One of the adjectives Fleming repeatedly uses about Bond is “cruel.” And he IS cruel. He kills nearly 40 people in the adventures described by Fleming.”
Charlie:
We're gonna resign, Leona.
It's what has to happen now.
Elliot Hirsch, Sloan Sabbith,
Terry Smith, Dayside ACN, ACN.
We understand the integrity of the news is more important--
Leona Lansing:
Than one individual.
That is beautiful.
Not as beautiful as Daniel Craig.
Charlie:
Leona.
Leona Lansing:
I'd have sent my plane.
Charlie:
We're not f***ing around.
Leona Lansing:
You will resign when I fire you
out of petty malice and not before.
Charlie:
Our trust numbers are--
Leona Lansing:
Yeah, they're bad.
Charlie:
They're fatal.
Will:
Firing Jerry was obviously the right thing to do,
but it wasn't enough
and we've known that for two months.
Charlie and I have to go.
Leona Lansing:
And Twiggy over here?
Mac:
It was my fault.
Leona Lansing:
McMac. Can I call you McMac?
Doesn't matter, I'm gonna anyway,
McMac. Your head's up your ass.
Mac:
Mrs. Lansing.
Leona Lansing:
Guy comes in here into my hizzy-- guy comes in here, cooks an interview, no remorse. It goes on air. You, I don't know what you'd do to Sherlock Holmes this thing. I wouldn't be able to figure it out and I'm the smartest person in the room.
Will:
Well, I wouldn't go that--
Leona Lansing:
Oh, shut the f*** up,
you Daniel Craig wannabe.
Will:
I don't want to be Daniel Craig.
Leona Lansing:
Well, you should want
to be Daniel Craig.
Everybody should.
Will:
Leona, are you stoned?
Leona Lansing:
[catching sight of her own reflection in a window]
You know, my makeup
lasts a long time.
Will:
Oh, jeez.
Mac:
Mrs. Lansing.
Leona Lansing:
No, no, please, call me-- Continue to call me Mrs. Lansing.
Will:
Leona--
Leona Lansing:
Guy comes into my house which I love.
Which I bet you guys didn't know.
But I love it. I love ACN.
You don't make me a nickel
and you cause headaches for the divisions that do,
but you make me--
You make me so proud.
God, guy comes in here,
cooks an interview,
and this ends up with--
'Cause he's unemployable
he gets a $5 million settlement
and the three of you leave?
Oh, I don't think so.
And McMac.
That's a name that's really starting to grow on me.
She doesn't have to go.
Nobody's ever heard of her.
But she's going to do the honorable thing.
And what's expected of me, huh?
Not to do the honorable thing?
What's expected of me?
No, I do not accept your resignations!
And Jerry Dantana's not gonna get one f***ing dollar!
I got some kick-ass courtroom outfits.
Will:
You have to accept our resignations
and you have to settle.
He'll take it to trial and win.
There was an institutional failure
and he was the only one fired.
Rebecca Halliday:
Then you'll need a good lawyer.
Lee, don't accept their resignations.
Leona Lansing:
I already wasn't accepting their resignations, Becca.
Don't horn in on my honorable thing.
God, I mean, can't a lady have--
Charlie:
[in desperation]
Leona, we don't have the trust of the public anymore!