tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6574198575168538104.post1002516329917022566..comments2024-02-27T14:15:43.978-06:00Comments on Modern Medievalism: Gotham's reckoning: Bane, Burke, and the French RevolutionThe Modern Medievalisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07238571174836044412noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6574198575168538104.post-65678911896292300522015-09-08T16:39:31.100-05:002015-09-08T16:39:31.100-05:00AGH! I was reading about the Inglorious Revolution...AGH! I was reading about the Inglorious Revolution last night. The college I attended was named after the usurpers lol.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00554830859411216515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6574198575168538104.post-46515629001842828622015-09-08T16:06:31.955-05:002015-09-08T16:06:31.955-05:00You may be right. I don't know enough about Le...You may be right. I don't know enough about Lenin to write extensively on it.<br /><br />By the way, surely you mean "Jacobins"! Jacobites (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobitism) are virtually the opposite.The Modern Medievalisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238571174836044412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6574198575168538104.post-60351559167082328472015-09-08T13:17:32.087-05:002015-09-08T13:17:32.087-05:00Personally, I thought Bane represented Lenin more ...Personally, I thought Bane represented Lenin more than Robespierre. Whilst I think Robespierre truly believed he was doing the right thing for France and its people, I have never been convinced the inner-Bolshevik circle did the same. Non-Russian communists like Rosa Luxembourg thought Lenin was a dangerous man to both communists and non-communists. Bane seems to use his 'ideology' (if it can be called that) as an excuse. If anything, the Jacobites, from what I've read, really did believe what they were doing. The Bolsheviks (except maybe Trotsky and other aligned with him) on the other hand seemed to use communism as a façade for setting up a totalitarian state (for the lulz, I guess). The fact the Old Bolsheviks were eventually destroyed by the state they created is, in my opinion, evidence of this.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00554830859411216515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6574198575168538104.post-74545319843912902772015-09-07T17:53:13.706-05:002015-09-07T17:53:13.706-05:00Reflections on Revolutionary Gotham: A Response to...Reflections on Revolutionary Gotham: A Response to the Modern Medievalist:<br /><br />"As a character who reflects this essentially modern self-understanding, Batman does not merely seek to conserve a long-lost pre-modern, medieval, and Catholic aristocratic moral order, but, by a new kind of symbolic terror, initiates his own escalating cavalcade of counter-revolutionary terror. Batman’s counter-revolutionary crusade is directed against the old order of liberal democracy which Ra’s Al Ghul describes as a “breeding ground for suffering and injustice.” Once the legal order becomes complicit in the very crime that it prohibits, Bruce Wayne must become a criminal vigilante to combat both crime and law. Becoming a criminal requires the imitation of criminality, and the internalization of criminal violence. Batman externally reflects this criminal violence to combat criminality with criminality. Since, moreover, the law itself is complicit in criminality, Batman’s opposition of criminality to criminality produces a self-opposition of crime and a self-contradiction for the law: for he is both a criminal vigilante whose work is necessary for the law to punish criminality, and also a living symbol of the impotence of the law to punish criminality. Batman may restore the old aristocratic order, not by conserving the legal order of liberal democracy, but only by accelerating its latent contradictions through revolutionary violence."<br /><br />http://transhumantraditionalism.blogspot.com/2015/09/reflections-on-revolutionary-gotham.htmlRyan Haeckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06223414294252642790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6574198575168538104.post-90201773361600904172015-09-04T16:34:55.061-05:002015-09-04T16:34:55.061-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Ryan Haeckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06223414294252642790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6574198575168538104.post-59085304052460988512015-09-04T16:34:19.577-05:002015-09-04T16:34:19.577-05:00Bane greatest crime is, in my opinion, not his hei...<br />Bane greatest crime is, in my opinion, not his heist on Wall Street, or even his theft of Batman's arsenal, but his exposure (pictured above) of the noble lie told by Commissioner Gordon on behalf of Batman through which alone the reputation of Harvey Dent, and the justice of Gotham, has been precariously preserved from the escalating madness initiated by Batman's caped crusade. It is not by bank-robberies, canons, or even atomic bombs alone that Bane can storm Blackgate prison, but only by exposing the noble lie upon which rides the pretense of justice in Gotham, that "The night is darkest just before the dawn." Batman believes that Gotham "is full of people ready to believe in good", but this belief can only be sustained by a costumed charade, in which the symbols of criminality are continously defeated by the symbols of justice. Batman is finally broken not by physical but by the symbolic force of Bane exposing this foundational belief to be, not only false, but a deliberate lie told to protect Gotham by protecting Bruce Wayne from the anguish of his genuine guilt for the symbolic escalation of violence that destroyed his friends, his city, and ultimately himself.<br /><br />The Dark Knight Trilogy is thematically centered upon a genuine<br />Dark Night of the Soul because, once exiled from the heavenly heights of Gotham to the hellish pits of Ra's Al Guhl's prison, Bruce Wayne must re-discover within himself the spiritual ladder to believe in the finality of justice once more. Since, however, Batman's caped crusade logically summons forth the escalating madness personified by the Joker in an endless quasi-Manichaen cycle of crime and retribution (see my post on the Joker), the final justification of Gotham requires Batman's sacrificial atonement for his guilt. And since Bruce Wayne's internal psychological opposition has been externalized to the whole city, which symbolizes the moral cosmos, Batman's sacrificial atonement must - in the imitation of Christ - also symbolically atone for all the crimes of the world. The seed of Adam's sin is thus symbolized by the power of clean-energy turned into the destructive blast of an atomic bomb. Batman reflects on his impending sacrifice when Catwoman demands "Come with me. Save yourself. You don't owe these people any more. You've given them everything." and he answers " Not everything. Not yet."<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXMzHYcNTsURyan Haeckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06223414294252642790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6574198575168538104.post-66824862129529591922015-09-04T16:33:52.317-05:002015-09-04T16:33:52.317-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Ryan Haeckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06223414294252642790noreply@blogger.com