beautiful_boater
the NB Dr. Who iteration is kind of weird.
Listen Mack, I understand. I can't really follow who, when, or where Dr. Jill Biden is supposed to be from or be currently, but don't admit that to the reporters man!
Yeah, love how I pointed out that Chomsky/Parenti shows that the news media is so compliant that Operation Mockingbird isn't even needed by the CIA anymore, and being treated as some unhinged crank by my friends.
Basically, Muslims and brown people hating Jews is an ironic comeuppance for the Jews bringing in said Muslims and brown people to do the Great Replacement on White people.
Beautiful, stunning, the emu has emerged from the surf. Undefeated on the battlefield, the emu now attempts to take control of the earth.
I think that it was supposed to be mostly a commentary on the negative aspects of the norms and societal expectations, along with the shame from his father causing him to act that way out of deep insecurities. Because his fixation with honor and masculinity was so heavily focused on how he was seen in the community and not giving an opening for people to see him as weak or feminine, that is hammered home in his own internal justifications for his actions.
Spoiler for people that haven't read it.
Thus why when colonization started undermining his own perceived position and status in the community, and people wouldn't follow him in resistance, he killed himself
I do have to say, I think a lot of my distaste of it on the first reading is that superficial reading causes Okonkwo to often come off as the most two dimensional portrayal of toxic masculinity.
I will preface this by saying that I haven't read it again in over a decade, but I remember mostly liking it on my second read. I switched schools mid high school, so I had to read it twice for school. I didn't like it the first time, I think I was too young and not interested in interrogating it much the first time I read it, but enjoyed on the second reading.
As you mentioned, it did try to portray precolonization Igbo culture as Achebe understood it. And I thought that it was a brave choice to focus on a lot of flaws and issues with precolonization society, where many characters are some shade of moral grey. Though this does lead some people to think for the same reason that it downplays or softens the problems of colonization, despite that being the titular "things fall apart", but I obviously feel that wasn't what Achebe intended. I think that Achebe was trying to portray the motivation for the various downtrodden and Nwoye to go along with Christianity and colonization.
I wish we had more portrayals of precolonization societies in literature.
Nighty Night!
I am actually polyamorous, I think I can support apartheid in Israel and South Africa without choosing which race I like as my primary.