Them Badasses (was Re: Blicero's sexuality

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>From: Eric Rosenbloom <ericr at sadlier.com>


> I would agree with that, because it is our own dependence on The System
> that makes us respond to those who confound It. The Badass provides a
> wish fulfillment normally accessible only in dreams. And it's the rare
> fold hero whose story is not appropriated by, whose sacrifice is not
> retold to favor The System.
>
> In the day that The System tells us that sacrifice is unnecessary, that
> we are all happy, all Elect, no child left behind, that The Badass Is
> The Spirit Of The System, only riot remains -- in which people create a
> collective hero out of their own action, their assertion of another
> story against the official line.
>
> Or a vital fiction can create the folk heros that we need . . .


Yes indeed. Just as those liberated 175s do with the legend of Blicero when
they set up their camp near the Oder estuary. (_GR_ 665-667)

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