Thomas_More
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More of Britain’s pushing of war.
Britain seems to have had major influence over the EU on this matter ever since Brexit, and is still wielding this influence, with Macron & Co. being led by the nose.
Even so, Brexit must be for the UK govt a shot in their own foot: (which Putin supported btw) calling the referendum an act of spleen, maybe, on the part of abdicating PM Cameron?
Can’t see Zelensky and Kyiv Starmer agreeing with anything Trump and Putin resolve upon.
‘Let’s just fight’: How Britain prefers war over peace in Ukraine
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journeyman_(film)
This is the most terrifying anti-boxing film I know of. One would have to have second thoughts about doing boxing after watching this.
Of course, as long as both consent, some gentlemen suitors for a lady’s hand may choose a duel à la Mark Twain: machine-guns at ten paces, whilst the lady watches, munching an apple.
But then still we might conclude that society should intervene to stop it, based upon love being an illness, a temporary state of insanity, from which the two males should be protected for their own good.
It was just a playabout. Had it been real, Trotsky wouldn’t have lasted a second. Cravan was what is known as a Man-Mountain.
The two corresponded afterwards until Cravan’s disappearance. He had married the poet Mina Loy and their daughter Fabienne died recently in Paris having never met her father.
A body of a large blond man was found by the Rio Grande murdered, his features destroyed, but whether he was Cravan we don’t know.
I believe the Kerr edition of Soul of Man included his preface.
In the Middle Ages Christianity, being averse to sexuality, suppressed expressions of the sexual in all art. But unspoken rituals continued, with wrestling among peasants and, for the nobility, who could afford it, shows of armed violence in which knights would fight with swords and lances to win the favour of their chosen ladies.
Activities of all kinds are bound up with the society that produces them.
As industrialism intensified during the 18th and 19th centuries, so 18th century boxing was replaced with the much more lethal gloved boxing of today, with its strict timekeeping, the bell emulating the factory whistle demanding attention on the part of contestants and spectators. The downed fighter has ten seconds in which to rise and take more blows. No more can he rest when he chooses, swig a pint and return to the fight in his own time (which is why the old prizefights often lasted much longer, which shocks us today whose shorter timed fights are so much more lethal.” So, no contact sports allowed in socialism?”
That’s not what is being said. Anything in which both parties are consenting is up to the consenting parties.
Boxing disappeared for centuries. Its reintroduction in late 17th century England is bound up with the birth of nationalism, as a recent biography of Daniel Mendoza shows.
Without nationalism and without money, who knows what there will be by way of consenting mutual battery?
Mating rituals in the animal kingdom involve individual males fighting prior to sexual coupling with females. Also among human natives of Java, where young men box with sharp reeds tied to their knuckles while watched by the young women of the village.
This dynamic has been exploited by boxing in the movies and by modern symbolism such as ring girls (who so annoy feminists) but whose role recognises the sexuality linking boxing to fertility rituals.
