Category Archives: Typology
Boyhood, Part II: Another Look at Richard Linklater’s Non-Millennial Millennial Film
Toward the end of Richard Linklater’s Boyhood protagonist Mason Evans Jr. (Ellar Coltrane) drives alone in his pick-up through a desert landscape. He is on his way to college for the first time. At a gas station mid-trip Mason pulls … Continue reading
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Boyhood: Another Look at Richard Linklater’s Non-Millennial Millennial Film
The conventional wisdom surrounding last year’s much lauded film Boyhood is that its theme and subject matter concern the early life experience of the millennial generation. For instance, regarding the film and its director Richard Linklater, Tribecafilm.com writer Andrew Bell states … Continue reading
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Myth & Justice VI.7 (“Restorative Justice II”)
In the previous blog the phrase “restorative justice” referred to Mythfire’s contention that a balance between masculine and feminine, thinking and feeling must be restored to our contemporary understanding of jurisprudence. This “Myth & Justice” series as a whole has admittedly … Continue reading
Myth & Justice VI.6 (“Restorative Justice”)
The six installments in this “Myth & Justice VI” blog post are all connected to the idea of empathy as a rational concern for the plight or well-being of the other or others. These and the previous series installments have … Continue reading
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Myth & Justice VI.2 (“The Riddle of a Human Life”)
In the last entry, Mythfire put forward the idea that empathy is an example not of personal bias but of an abstract impersonal feeling value which, furthermore, is inseparable from the judicial process. We also argued, toward the beginning of … Continue reading
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