A few one off killings by the UK Deep State characters makes you queasy but centuries of England ransacking and murdering in Asia, North America, Africa and Ireland doesn’t? And their still fomenting war between Ukraine and Russia. Seems to me England could give every last piece of bread they have to the rest of the world and they’d still owe.
It's funny to see a "libertarian" argue that people neither born when the event occurred nor in any positon to have affected them had they been alive then, have some kind of responsibility for said events.
I agree with you. I was sensing a bashing of the US and responded by trying to show that Brits had no room to talk. But I was inarticulate in my reaction. Thanks for the fair criticism.
I am not. I have both Irish and US passports and citizenship. I worked on both sides for decades and had staff in High Wycombe and close relatives in Philly, London and Donegal. Having served along with 4 other brothers in the US military, I tend to react poorly to criticisms of the US from countries and people that are no better but think they are.
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The dumb thing is that the proper Woke wouldn't give Bond, Ian Fleming, Sean Connery or the long list of gradual more tedious films the time of day! The Islington crowd won't have read any Fleming, won't have enjoyed any of the films, won't approve of Connery, probably don't even go to the cinema any more. So who is going to be reading this rubbish? It sounds like an essay from an undergrad hoping to get a job at the Guardian!
The Fleming estate should have left Bond alone - he's basically an historical character and it was a shame they kept updating his environment. It's like trying to modernise Bertie Wooster! It would be much better to write a totally new character who pointlessly works for the pointless British secret service. Then he/she/it could have been as woke and dull and offended as they wanted!
Why didn’t they just freeze the villain’s bank account like they did to Canadian truckers and Farage? I guess they have to make tyranny more complicated to get asses in the theater seats to watch this woke crap.
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I see that people are having a good time making fun of the novel. And it's true that the initial James Bond was misogynistic (the horrors!!)
But it was a cartoon, and had no identifiable real-life characters. Yes, England was the good guys, and (presumably) the USSR was the bad guys. A steady diet of such simple-mindedness is not good for anyone, but I think most can handle it.
But this latest version of James Bond qualifies as hate speech, by progressives' own definition. It names specific people as villains, and promotes myth as reality. Thus, it crosses from mindless entertainment into propaganda. We do well to remember that the reason so many people hate Trump is because of relentless propaganda just like this. And anyone who supports him is reviled, in REAL life. We are racists, white supremacists, right-wing extremists, and we should be silenced "for the sake of democracy". People actually believe all that crap.
The new book may be a joke, but this is no laughing matter.
By definition, Progressives can’t hate anyone undeserving of their hate and so can never be guilty of hate speech. Same as racial hate crime in the US; by definition only a white can hate a non-white. Just so weird in Philly where we have thousands of incidents of blacks shooting others every year and none presumably driven by hate or even dislike. City of Brotherly Love; 😂 😂
The non-white americans shooting at other non-white americans have clearly internalised white supremacism, and surely identifiy their victims as white-acting, no doubt.
Bet you a (symbolic) dollar you culd whip that into an entire article or column for The Atlantic or Salon or Vox, yah?
I would not touch those rags tyvm. But it is true that race hate crimes are basically defined only as a white on black incident even though there are a several fold greater incidence of violent crime from blacks on whites and Asians.
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Soooooo meta! Higson ingeniously takes the parodic quality of the Moore era bond movies and weaves and embeds it into the actual authorial voice as a satire on a painfully woke, pain in the backside, bien pensant, North London Blob creature, witlessly parasitising a superior and universally popular brand from a bygone age that he could never have hoped to create himself. GENIUS! Probably.
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Gordon Bennett as they say. I can't say I was ever a Bond fanatic although as a child I always fancied one of those Dinky Aston Martins with the ejector seats etc.
Even so the blatant propaganda of the parts you expose is appalling. Still
Mr Ric Hungary asshole
grimy run arch asshole
yr arch GM ruin asshole
are all anagrams of his full name, Charles Murray Higson so maybe that's the reason.
You are right about the London liberal elite, they get a taste for the good life as it were and become out of touch with the person in the street.
But he did go to a private school in the first place. They do give good broad educations, I went one myself, but in his case he has lost the plot in real life, let alone the book by the looks of it.
Many thanks for the heads up anyway. To misquote Monty Python's phrase I would say 'This is a book for laying down and avoiding.'
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So many books now -- fiction and nonfiction -- are spoiled by those type of rants.
What gets me is when I stumble upon something like this in an otherwise scholarly type book that has zero to do with political issues. Makes me doubt the rest of the author's points or positions.
Ewwww, that is mega creepy although Bond has always been propaganda for the military industrial complex so same old same old...
Yep, even as a little kid I was rather resentful of someone being given a 'license to kill'. Kill whom? Sez who?
It's always glorified the government and made me a little queasy.
A few one off killings by the UK Deep State characters makes you queasy but centuries of England ransacking and murdering in Asia, North America, Africa and Ireland doesn’t? And their still fomenting war between Ukraine and Russia. Seems to me England could give every last piece of bread they have to the rest of the world and they’d still owe.
It's funny to see a "libertarian" argue that people neither born when the event occurred nor in any positon to have affected them had they been alive then, have some kind of responsibility for said events.
That's rather woke, that is.
I agree with you. I was sensing a bashing of the US and responded by trying to show that Brits had no room to talk. But I was inarticulate in my reaction. Thanks for the fair criticism.
Are you from the UK?
I am not. I have both Irish and US passports and citizenship. I worked on both sides for decades and had staff in High Wycombe and close relatives in Philly, London and Donegal. Having served along with 4 other brothers in the US military, I tend to react poorly to criticisms of the US from countries and people that are no better but think they are.
True; leading to his ultimate downfall as woke agendists attemp to deflect from DS/MIC shenanigans.
The dumb thing is that the proper Woke wouldn't give Bond, Ian Fleming, Sean Connery or the long list of gradual more tedious films the time of day! The Islington crowd won't have read any Fleming, won't have enjoyed any of the films, won't approve of Connery, probably don't even go to the cinema any more. So who is going to be reading this rubbish? It sounds like an essay from an undergrad hoping to get a job at the Guardian!
The Fleming estate should have left Bond alone - he's basically an historical character and it was a shame they kept updating his environment. It's like trying to modernise Bertie Wooster! It would be much better to write a totally new character who pointlessly works for the pointless British secret service. Then he/she/it could have been as woke and dull and offended as they wanted!
True. It's only about the money and rewriting history.
For some reason, these people hate their core customers. Or shall I say that they are "bud light"ing James Bond movies to appeal to woke noncustomers?
"It's like trying to modernise Bertie Wooster!"
Don't give them ideas!
Apparently the villain is a thinly veiled Nigel Farage.
Why didn’t they just freeze the villain’s bank account like they did to Canadian truckers and Farage? I guess they have to make tyranny more complicated to get asses in the theater seats to watch this woke crap.
I see that people are having a good time making fun of the novel. And it's true that the initial James Bond was misogynistic (the horrors!!)
But it was a cartoon, and had no identifiable real-life characters. Yes, England was the good guys, and (presumably) the USSR was the bad guys. A steady diet of such simple-mindedness is not good for anyone, but I think most can handle it.
But this latest version of James Bond qualifies as hate speech, by progressives' own definition. It names specific people as villains, and promotes myth as reality. Thus, it crosses from mindless entertainment into propaganda. We do well to remember that the reason so many people hate Trump is because of relentless propaganda just like this. And anyone who supports him is reviled, in REAL life. We are racists, white supremacists, right-wing extremists, and we should be silenced "for the sake of democracy". People actually believe all that crap.
The new book may be a joke, but this is no laughing matter.
By definition, Progressives can’t hate anyone undeserving of their hate and so can never be guilty of hate speech. Same as racial hate crime in the US; by definition only a white can hate a non-white. Just so weird in Philly where we have thousands of incidents of blacks shooting others every year and none presumably driven by hate or even dislike. City of Brotherly Love; 😂 😂
The non-white americans shooting at other non-white americans have clearly internalised white supremacism, and surely identifiy their victims as white-acting, no doubt.
Bet you a (symbolic) dollar you culd whip that into an entire article or column for The Atlantic or Salon or Vox, yah?
I would not touch those rags tyvm. But it is true that race hate crimes are basically defined only as a white on black incident even though there are a several fold greater incidence of violent crime from blacks on whites and Asians.
Hilarious and disappointing.
The original Bond books were pretty good. The John Gardner series is a bit modernized and a tad more like the movies, but quite good too.
In case you want more Bond than Fleming provides, consider the Gardner books. Some are awful but some are pretty decent, starting with License Renewed
Speaking of James Bond, here’s who the whole Bond character is based off:
John Dee, the man, myth and legend.
https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-man-behind-the-british-empire
Whet an appetite, not wet it!
The book smells worse than a pile of cowshit before it bakes on a hot day!
That's what I said (I def didn't just edit it)
Of course not. Must have been my mistake.
sloppy
Whet and sloppy; you Brits ...
I shall now away and find a Fred Dibnah film to watch.
Everything is going to shit. A mans appreciation and desire for a beautiful woman is now a crime.
Not if the man in question is a biological female who had a third leg appended later.
Soooooo meta! Higson ingeniously takes the parodic quality of the Moore era bond movies and weaves and embeds it into the actual authorial voice as a satire on a painfully woke, pain in the backside, bien pensant, North London Blob creature, witlessly parasitising a superior and universally popular brand from a bygone age that he could never have hoped to create himself. GENIUS! Probably.
Reads like AI. IMO
Thanks for the heads up. Will the next movie be made by Disney to go along with their latest string of box office "hits"?!
Are you sure it's not ChatGPT-bot that's the author?
Gordon Bennett as they say. I can't say I was ever a Bond fanatic although as a child I always fancied one of those Dinky Aston Martins with the ejector seats etc.
Even so the blatant propaganda of the parts you expose is appalling. Still
Mr Ric Hungary asshole
grimy run arch asshole
yr arch GM ruin asshole
are all anagrams of his full name, Charles Murray Higson so maybe that's the reason.
You are right about the London liberal elite, they get a taste for the good life as it were and become out of touch with the person in the street.
But he did go to a private school in the first place. They do give good broad educations, I went one myself, but in his case he has lost the plot in real life, let alone the book by the looks of it.
Many thanks for the heads up anyway. To misquote Monty Python's phrase I would say 'This is a book for laying down and avoiding.'
As always with anything Woke, there is a notable absence of fun, satire etc. It's all verboten! Ve must not laugh at ze Bond...
The Woke are way too sophisticated to have a sense of humor, you peon.
There's no time for fun! This is serious - the earth is boiling! /s
Hi Hi Ha Ha...
They do live in their own bubble.
That is the lockdown bubble I presume?
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/rule-of-six-government-guidance/
thanks for the laugh
So many books now -- fiction and nonfiction -- are spoiled by those type of rants.
What gets me is when I stumble upon something like this in an otherwise scholarly type book that has zero to do with political issues. Makes me doubt the rest of the author's points or positions.
Sadly this is true. However, people have their blind spots even if they can very large spots.
Large spots are a sign of COVID 19, a.k.a. the 'flu allegedly. : )
When I imprint, I imprint hard. Only Sean Connery for me. I found every Bond film without him unwatchable.
I liked others. Roger Moore was not really the character of the books but he had a nice touch of humour. Live and let Die was good.
Roger Moore was smarmy I never took to him, didn’t help that he was pension age pretending to be a top spy kicking arse.
I think as SCA says Roger Moore was 'spoofing the canon'. And forgive me, but with his name I think that suited what James Bond got up to some times!
For me he was spoofing the canon, and that's OK as a directorial choice, but I missed what wasn't there.
Me too. Bond is meant to be an arrogant prick but Sean Connery was so attractive to women in the role.
And the older he got, the more attractive he got.
"I'll have a double helping of that toxic masculinity, please."