(no subject)

Status of brain: utterly fried
Status of presentation: coming along

Have a quote from the book I'm working with:

"There is order in society because some people command and others obey, but in order to obey an order at least two things are required: you must understand the order and you must understand that you must obey it. And do that, you must already be the equal of the person who is ordering you. It is this equality that gnaws away at any natural order."

Where natural order is actually 'natural order', or the naturalized order of social organization/domination.


ETA: What kind of dictionary doesn't recognize 'telos'? God dammit GoogleDocs.

Winter Solider - origin of the name?

Has Ed Brubaker said what the inspiration was for Bucky's renaming as the Winter Soldier? There are two possibilities that I see:

THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

Thomas Paine, Crisis 1.

Or the Winter Soldier Investigation into American war crimes in Vietnam, which got its name from a paraphrase of Paine. Btw, the documentary of the investigation is available here.

Has Bru talked about this? Is it explained in the books (which I haven't read straight through)?

Alan Moore reads from Rorschach's journal

Sorry for spamming, but this was in need of posting. For those of you who haven't already heard this - ALAN MOORE IS SCARY! and also kind of awesome. ( Read more... )