It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Falcon Blood.
I keep saying it because it keeps being true--there is something so pathetic in how this is transparently Muir's fantasy. And there are more levels to the patheticness. The utterly ramshackle state of Muir's created world, where Muir's need for constant challenges to show his avatars' might wars with his equally constant need to show them as secure and unchallengeable--and both occasionally get kicked over by the real world. The cringing cowardice and bullying swagger that Muir imagines are courage. The fact Muir on some level believes this, believes in the way of all fascists that his way is so innately strong, so clearly right that it will win and win and win, and if it appears to lose, than it is only because the other side cheated.
I said it when Trump won--Muir is as miserable in victory as he is in defeat, because his expectations are so high, his beliefs are so detached from reality, and his allies so shit, that a win is only the gateway to disappointment and then defeat.
As with all extreme ideologues, he requires absolute purity, which he will never be able to see in the world (thank goodness), thus leaving him perpetually dissatisfied and hateful.
ReplyDeleteHis detachment from reality is never more obvious than in the "America without the Blues" bullshit. I've probably said this before, but yeah, good luck getting rid of half the country. Even if you were try to live out all your most terrible fascist fantasies, it would be long and messy and, in the end, impossible.
Exactly. And on top of it, he expects everything will go incredibly as his horrible, counterproductive dreams are put into play, and he believes he and his are all incredible supermen, instead of the whiny incompetent manbabies they are.
DeleteFascism's greatest weaknesses are its delusions of omnipotence and omnicompetence.
You certainly aren't the first person to note how this element can never be happy. (Or at least not for long. I've never forgotten one DBD strip from early 2017 where Zed is watching TV seeing imaginary Trump scoring some imaginary win against imaginary enemies, and saying "Hon? I'm SO happy.")
ReplyDeleteEven in victory, they are always angry, always filled with rage and hate. "Sore winners", as I've seen them called. In fact, in some ways they seem to be even angrier when they win than when they lose.
Remember when Muir himself briefly showed up on this blog? That was something. I can only assume he's never looked at it since.
He seems to briefly FEIGN happiness, but ultimately it's hard for him to keep up. As I said, he wants too many impossible things.
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