Seems like we have a similar thing going on. I sent my phone in for warranty repair three weeks ago and still haven’t gotten it back. (Should by tomorrow) Instead of getting a new phone, I decided to just kind of disconnect for awhile, started doing yard work and other hobbies. A friend of mine got jailed on a bogus charge so I felt pretty terrible that I couldn’t really communicate with him for awhile, but I was able to get his dog and take care of her until he got out.
I’ve also been reading a fiction book that’s got a lot of political undertones called The Dispossessed. About a guy that lives on a planet that establishes anarchism but has very limited resources to go work at a resource rich planet that has capitalism established. Honestly, it’s kind of depressed me further. Even though the author makes little attempt to make the anarchist planet seem particularly pleasant, I can’t but help but feel that they’re my people and I envy their political structure and comradeship. I really need to get involved in some sort of organizing. I’m feeling a bit down tbh.
For the first time in awhile, I couldn’t finish this news brief I watch every day. After so many days of watching climate change fiascos and inhumane immigration treatment, I just couldn’t anymore. Even though I’m disengaged with social media lately, I feel like my meditations on the world has been leaving me feeling mentally exhausted. I know I’ll recover and be able to pick up the good fight again soon. I guess I just haven’t had much good news in my personal life lately and all these personal/global issues have kinda weighed down on me. Not really sure if I can just ignore it all. But, I’m better today than yesterday, so I’ll just kind of ride that trajectory I s’pose.
I’m not sure I would call Nolan an outright conservative, but there is a lot of state apologia and counter-revolutionary themes in The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises. There’s multiple examples including the justification of surveillance for anti-terrorism purposes, stateless anarchy portrayed as monstrous via Bane and The Joker, Alfred justifying imperialist actions in Burma, the protagonist being a rich billionaire, a lot of dialogue that seems to suggest it’s not the system that’s evil, but the lack of regulation against corruption, so on and so forth.
You might say that a lot of what he seems to advocate for seems to be firmly liberal, but Liberalism is a conservative ideology if you’re looking outside America’s shortsighted left/right spectrum. I like Nolan’s work, but I constantly see suppression of revolutionary ideology in his work. I don’t think he hates progressivism, but I do think he’s riding the center, which in America, means right-wing.