Alan Moore on Steve Ditko on Rorschach

Steve Ditko on Rorschach part on In Search of Steve Ditko

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[Adam Manyfingers]

Sorry !!

[Adam Manyfingers]

Please comment

[dragknuckle]

Misleading title. This is actually Alan Moore on Ditko. Is it fair to allow a man to be defined by someone who is hostile to his views?

[MiHiVidz]

You can tell Mr. A's an objectivist just from the enormous size of his word-flooded speech balloons.

[dragknuckle]

I haven't read Mr. A.

[Adan Castillo]

I agree with you on the title being slightly misleading (Alan Moore is quoting Steve Ditko from a second hand account, which isn't fair). But surely you're not implying that Mr. A, if he was real, wouldn't be insane? If I read that wrong, I apologize.

[Marvey Brent]

Anarchism is quite childish to be sure, but Moore's ideology is comparatively more mature than that of Objectivism, a movement too ridiculous and irrelevant for words. It isn't a fascist ideology and, to be honest, I do not really care whether it is left or right, it is just stupid and badly thought out; it is pretty much the outlook of a child written with a more adult vocabulary.I agree with you about Punk rock and many anarchist though; not sure if Moore did turn to it due to punk, though.

[Marvey Brent]

"The use of the insertion of the 6-inch dowel into the canal of one of my detainee's ears, and the tapping through the brain until dead. The starvation to death (in a cage), of a Vietnamese woman who was suspected of being part of the local political education cadre in one of the local villages ... The use of electronic gear such as sealed telephones attached to ... both the women's vaginas and men's testicles to shock them into submission." - K. M. Osborne, Millitary Intelligence officer.

[Marvey Brent]

"Rape, gang rape, rape using eels, snakes, or hard objects, and rape followed by murder; electric shock ('the Bell Telephone Hour') rendered by attaching wires to the genitals or other sensitive parts of the body, like the tongue''

[Marvey Brent]

Suggested reading includes 'Patriots: The Vietnam War War Remembered From All Sides' by Christian G. Appy.

[Marvey Brent]

DrCruel, I have never really encountered you before so don't talk as if you know me. Also, I am sick with a lie? Truth isn't my concern? What the fuck are you actually talking about, dipshit?! Have you actually read about the US-led intelligence squads, actually read their documents. If you have and you say what I said is untrue then you are a liar and a despicable human being for putting nationalism before facts. If you honestly do not know about this, read about the Phoenix Program.

[DrCruel]

I see. So you'd rather stick with a lie, despite overwhelming evidence that it isn't true, because it fits better with your personal belief system.

You then introduce another outrageous claim. Given his and your track record, why should I believe this new assertion, or any other you make along similar lines? It's already been made clear that truth isn't really your concern.

[felixjazzage]

For the record, I am not an Objectivist, but I would like to see it get a fair hearing if someone's going to criticize it. Moore apparently thinks that it's a "fascist" ideology (his own words), which it most definitely is not. It could be called a narcissistic philosophy, but not just in the simple understanding of simple selfishness. There's a bit more to it than that.

And Moore, mature? *LOL* He's a smart fellow, but he's sort of an enfant terrible. He throws fits almost by the clock.

[felixjazzage]

Sorry, I was thinking the same thing about modern Anarchists. The Anarchists of the 19th and 20th century were a failed movement. They had the Paris Commune for a few months, & then they aided the Bolsheviks in Russia, but were just as quickly repressed. They were best known for a series of political assassinations. No Anarchist government (odd to use that phrase) ever succeeded. I suspect most Brits of Moore's age came to Anarchism originally through punk rock, which is even dumber than Rand.