To Vanessa and other comic fans/writers.

The discussion of the ideological is something that keep popping up here. Lenin writes in the Tomb about the new movie - the 300. Though perhaps a little too radical for me, I think there is a lot to remember and take heed to in it.

To my mind, Snyder's 300 drinks deeply at the cauldron of rage that is still boiling over in the United States six years after that bloody Tuesday. Two invasions, a trillion dollars in smoke and three thousand dead Americans have not sated the Achellian anger in a remote part of the American psyche. The movie 300 unleashes that abiding desire to curse, brag and rave at "endless Asian hordes." Bring'em on you barbarian slaves, you, you..., black, gay, effeminate, depraved cowards. Your friends are hunchbacks, deformed giants, midgets, magicians, eunuchs, perverts, lesbians and executioners. To hell with you all and your "mysticism and tyranny!"

Read the post, then comment on what he says about Frank Miller, comic book ideology and so on. You know far more about this than I do.