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Is the idea that revenge is bad a lib one? (hexbear.net)

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Or is revenge fucking awesome

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I finished watching Angels in America yesterday.

Angels in America (miniseries)

Angels in America is a 2003 American HBO miniseries directed by Mike Nichols and based on the Pulitzer Prize–winning 1991 play of the same name by Tony Kushner. Set in 1985, the film revolves around six New Yorkers whose lives intersect. At its core, it is the fantastical story of Prior Walter, a gay man living with AIDS who is visited by an angel. The film explores a wide variety of themes, including Reagan era politics, the spreading AIDS epidemic, and a rapidly changing social and political climate.

The story is surreal and not just including that angels are real. A character visits heaven. God has left the angels in heaven and humankind on earth to fend for themselves. He's gone. The character rages against god for allowing AIDS to kill so many gay men. He has a very lib conception of how to get back at god. It's not going to war against god. It's not fighting god. It's not getting revenge on god. It's not presented as a joke but I almost started laughing when he said...

"And if god returns - take him to court. He walked out on us. He ought to pay."

He wants to take god to court! The majority of libs (the vast majority?) think of revenge as wrong (if not evil) because it exists outside of the law. They have law brain. They've confused the law with justice.

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I guess people were outraged about the very end of the play because out of nowhere for ~20 seconds Israel and Palestine are suddenly mentioned. The miniseries is 6 hours long. Kushner used the fact that people remember stuff at the beginning and the ending far more than they do anywhere else in a work of fiction. To me it felt cowardly by him, very strange, tacked on, and I assume he did it out of feeling of guilt.