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   Titus Techera

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   2:03 AM EDT ⋅ Jun 3, 2018

   Larry Koler (View Comment):

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   Titus Techera (View Comment):

   Yes, exactly! There is no going around the fact that women like comforts where men might like hardship. A man might want it his way where a woman might like it the easy way-

   The paradox is that the comforts only come after taking risks, for example building a railroad. And the women are more risk averse.

   The women are, if you pardon the pun, standing on two legs–gov’t & the markets. They converge to rationalizing risk. You can take risks that yield results, not others. Risks in the service of abolishing risk.

   Who’d say no to that!

   Also, women want long-term stability for themselves and their families, too. The United States seemed a pretty good bet for a lot of people. It’s important for women to harness men and their ambitions to lift them as high as possible and then to lock it in with tribal or national structures.

   This is the symbiosis of the personal with the national writ at the family level.

   Yes–putting men to work for a better future is essential. The men like the work, the challenge, & the freedom the future brings. It’s something we have to work toward.

   Vera Miles in Liberty Valance shows a lot of the manliness of American women & Ford shows a lot of role reversals for men & women–but it takes some knowledge of how they can love each other & be loyal to go through these changes, which are just part of American life. She’s the kind of strong woman American parents mostly want their girls to be, because they’ll have to fend for themselves. Unfortunately, when it comes to teaching similar resilience to boys, the whole damned country is drunk on the job… Americans won’t stay put & behave strictly according to rules–that’s America for you; but to deal with that mobility & motility, the education of the young has to be pretty strong on grasping what it means to have a soul, to act on a belief that’s fit for humans. Boys don’t get nearly enough of that.

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   Titus Techera

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   2:05 AM EDT ⋅ Jun 3, 2018

   Percival (View Comment):

   

   Titus, your next assignment, should you decide to accept it …

   Heh. I dunno. Gotta find someone wittier than me–not hard, I know–who loves Kubrick on comedy–there’s the rub.

   But I’ll tell you something else. My friend @johnpresnall, who’s now on Ricochet, too, he & I were just talking about doing more Coppola after the Godfather trilogy–talk about Apocalypse Now, Homer, Conrad, & Coppola!