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Jun 1, 2012, 9:53:56 AM6/1/12
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The more popular it is to worry over some organized threat, the less
of a danger it likely is in reality. After all, if some group or
institution was truly fearsome, most people would either be terrified
into silence or admiration.
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For example, Dan Brown made a fortune off his The Da Vinci Code pulp
novel during this low ebb of the Catholic Church’s powers with a tale
of how a nearly omnipotent Church conspires to cover up pagan
feminism’s golden age.
However, actual pagans traditionally complained that Christianity was
too female-friendly. But Brown is practically Edward Gibbon compared
to his successor as a global publishing sensation, the late Stieg
Larsson, author of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (or as it was
originally titled in Sweden, Men Who Hate Women). Himself a hate-
filled lefty nerd, Larsson concocted an elaborate fantasy world for
true believers in the conventional wisdom.
“The more popular it is to worry over some organized threat, the less
of a danger it likely is in reality.”
Although Larsson was a long-time supporter of the Communist Workers
League, his politics seldom got in the way of his lust for Apple
products. The Aspergery author penned such undying literary effusions
as:
Unsurprisingly she set her sights on the best available alternative:
the new Apple PowerBook G4/1.0 GHz in an aluminum case with a PowerPC
7451 processor with an AltiVec Velocity Engine, 960 MB RAM and a 60 GB
hard drive.
You may have somehow garnered the impression that Sweden is a
politically correct social democracy where the main problems women
face (qua women) are oppression and rape at the hands of Muslim
immigrants whose traditional misogyny is sometimes excused in the name
of multicultural sensitivity. Otherwise, Scandinavia would appear to
be a feminist utopia. As WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange, currently
appealing against extradition to Sweden on “sex-by-surprise” charges
filed by two women scorned, has complained, “Sweden is the Saudi
Arabia of feminism.”
Nordic feminism has a thousand-year history since Leif Ericson’s half-
sister Freydís Eiríksdóttir terrified the poor Skraelings in Vinland.
And modern Sweden’s mild-mannered men are famous among the more
aggressive sort of male tourists for their relative lack of apparent
jealousy when their womenfolk amuse themselves by flirting with
strangers.
Please share this article by using the link below. When you cut and
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http://takimag.com/article/fight_the_imaginary_power#ixzz1wY7pbio5
But readers of Larsson’s Millennium trilogy, which has sold nearly 30
million books, know better. Larsson fearlessly exposed the true
plagues menacing contemporary Sweden: rich Nazis, Christian male
chauvinists, rapist legal officials, and two generations of
billionaire serial killers—the first preying on Jewish women, the
second on immigrant women.
Fortunately, two human beings dare stand up to this fascist tsunami
engulfing Sweden. One is a middle-aged leftist journalist (in other
words, Larsson’s sockpuppet). Although persecuted (and possessing no
discernible personality), he’s still dynamite with the ladies.
The second is his young research assistant, Lisbeth Salander, who
comes equipped with every add-on that turned on geeky former sci-fi
fanzine editors such as Larsson in female fantasy figures back in the
1990s.
Think Trinity in The Matrix, but with even more attitude. Lisbeth has
genius computer-hacking skills, a black wardrobe and a black
motorcycle, hand-to-hand combat techniques that let her deal out cruel
vengeance upon men twice her 100 pounds, piercings, a mohawk, and
lesbianism (until she’s exposed to the journalist hero’s recessive
charm).
But this isn’t the 1990s anymore, so the appeal of such dusty clichés
has drifted up the age range.
Very few Americans go to subtitled foreign films anymore; thus, the
Swedish adaptations of Larsson’s books were the three top foreign-
language box-office films of 2010. I was at the local art-house cinema
in 2010 when the third thriller debuted, and it looked like Twilight
for the elderly. The lobby was jammed with shuffling octogenarians.
The restroom lines were moving so slowly that I fear many Larsson fans
may have missed their favorite sexual-torture and sadistic-revenge
scenes.
Now, though, they can catch up because Hollywood has handed ace
director David Fincher (The Social Network, Fight Club) somewhere
between $90 and $125 million to remake The Girl with the Dragon
Tattoo.
It still ends up looking much like the $13-million Swedish original:
clammy and dank. Daniel Craig, the current James Bond, plays the
Swedish reporter as if he researched his role by listening to a
Prairie Home Companion debate over whether Swedes were even duller
than Norwegians. (For some reason, he’s the only actor in the movie
without a Swedish accent.) Starlet Rooney Mara, an offspring of the
Rooney family who owns the Pittsburgh Steelers NFL team and the Mara
dynasty that founded the New York Giants, portrays the nerd-bait.
Despite Fincher’s expertise, his Girl with the Dragon Tattoo winds up
being The Da Vinci Code of the 2010s, only with more anal rape.
Please share this article by using the link below. When you cut and
paste an article, Taki's Magazine misses out on traffic, and our
writers don't get paid for their work. Email edi...@takimag.com to
buy additional rights. http://takimag.com/article/fight_the_imaginary_power/page_2#ixzz1wY8RzPrL
The more popular it is to worry over some organized threat, the less
of a danger it likely is in reality. After all, if some group or
institution was truly fearsome, most people would either be terrified
into silence or admiration.
Please share this article by using the link below. When you cut and
paste an article, Taki's Magazine misses out on traffic, and our
writers don't get paid for their work.
For example, Dan Brown made a fortune off his The Da Vinci Code pulp
novel during this low ebb of the Catholic Church’s powers with a tale
of how a nearly omnipotent Church conspires to cover up pagan
feminism’s golden age.
However, actual pagans traditionally complained that Christianity was
too female-friendly. But Brown is practically Edward Gibbon compared
to his successor as a global publishing sensation, the late Stieg
Larsson, author of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (or as it was
originally titled in Sweden, Men Who Hate Women). Himself a hate-
filled lefty nerd, Larsson concocted an elaborate fantasy world for
true believers in the conventional wisdom.
“The more popular it is to worry over some organized threat, the less
of a danger it likely is in reality.”
Although Larsson was a long-time supporter of the Communist Workers
League, his politics seldom got in the way of his lust for Apple
products. The Aspergery author penned such undying literary effusions
as:
Unsurprisingly she set her sights on the best available alternative:
the new Apple PowerBook G4/1.0 GHz in an aluminum case with a PowerPC
7451 processor with an AltiVec Velocity Engine, 960 MB RAM and a 60 GB
hard drive.
You may have somehow garnered the impression that Sweden is a
politically correct social democracy where the main problems women
face (qua women) are oppression and rape at the hands of Muslim
immigrants whose traditional misogyny is sometimes excused in the name
of multicultural sensitivity. Otherwise, Scandinavia would appear to
be a feminist utopia. As WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange, currently
appealing against extradition to Sweden on “sex-by-surprise” charges
filed by two women scorned, has complained, “Sweden is the Saudi
Arabia of feminism.”
Nordic feminism has a thousand-year history since Leif Ericson’s half-
sister Freydís Eiríksdóttir terrified the poor Skraelings in Vinland.
And modern Sweden’s mild-mannered men are famous among the more
aggressive sort of male tourists for their relative lack of apparent
jealousy when their womenfolk amuse themselves by flirting with
strangers.
Please share this article by using the link below. When you cut and
paste an article, Taki's Magazine misses out on traffic, and our
writers don't get paid for their work. Email edi...@takimag.com to
buy additional rights.
http://takimag.com/article/fight_the_imaginary_power#ixzz1wY7pbio5
But readers of Larsson’s Millennium trilogy, which has sold nearly 30
million books, know better. Larsson fearlessly exposed the true
plagues menacing contemporary Sweden: rich Nazis, Christian male
chauvinists, rapist legal officials, and two generations of
billionaire serial killers—the first preying on Jewish women, the
second on immigrant women.
Fortunately, two human beings dare stand up to this fascist tsunami
engulfing Sweden. One is a middle-aged leftist journalist (in other
words, Larsson’s sockpuppet). Although persecuted (and possessing no
discernible personality), he’s still dynamite with the ladies.
The second is his young research assistant, Lisbeth Salander, who
comes equipped with every add-on that turned on geeky former sci-fi
fanzine editors such as Larsson in female fantasy figures back in the
1990s.
Think Trinity in The Matrix, but with even more attitude. Lisbeth has
genius computer-hacking skills, a black wardrobe and a black
motorcycle, hand-to-hand combat techniques that let her deal out cruel
vengeance upon men twice her 100 pounds, piercings, a mohawk, and
lesbianism (until she’s exposed to the journalist hero’s recessive
charm).
But this isn’t the 1990s anymore, so the appeal of such dusty clichés
has drifted up the age range.
Very few Americans go to subtitled foreign films anymore; thus, the
Swedish adaptations of Larsson’s books were the three top foreign-
language box-office films of 2010. I was at the local art-house cinema
in 2010 when the third thriller debuted, and it looked like Twilight
for the elderly. The lobby was jammed with shuffling octogenarians.
The restroom lines were moving so slowly that I fear many Larsson fans
may have missed their favorite sexual-torture and sadistic-revenge
scenes.
Now, though, they can catch up because Hollywood has handed ace
director David Fincher (The Social Network, Fight Club) somewhere
between $90 and $125 million to remake The Girl with the Dragon
Tattoo.
It still ends up looking much like the $13-million Swedish original:
clammy and dank. Daniel Craig, the current James Bond, plays the
Swedish reporter as if he researched his role by listening to a
Prairie Home Companion debate over whether Swedes were even duller
than Norwegians. (For some reason, he’s the only actor in the movie
without a Swedish accent.) Starlet Rooney Mara, an offspring of the
Rooney family who owns the Pittsburgh Steelers NFL team and the Mara
dynasty that founded the New York Giants, portrays the nerd-bait.
Despite Fincher’s expertise, his Girl with the Dragon Tattoo winds up
being The Da Vinci Code of the 2010s, only with more anal rape.
Please share this article by using the link below. When you cut and
paste an article, Taki's Magazine misses out on traffic, and our
writers don't get paid for their work. Email edi...@takimag.com to
buy additional rights. http://takimag.com/article/fight_the_imaginary_power/page_2#ixzz1wY8RzPrL
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