Counter-Currents
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People under the age of 55, to the extent that they know who Linda Blair is at all, know her for one thing: her iconic Oscar-nominated dual performance as the 12-year-old child Regan MacNeil and Supreme Master of Evil, Satan, in the legendary 1973 horror film The Exorcist.
People over the age of 55 know Linda Blair for two things: for playing Satan in The Exorcist and for the slew of scandalous made-for-TV movies she was in during the mid-1970s. The most explosive of these was Born Innocent, owing largely to a scene depicting a brutal lesbian rape which many found more horrifying than anything in The Exorcist.
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I know about Linda Blair through that wonderful romance film, Roller Boogie.
Man, poor Linda Blair just couldn’t stop being used and abused in the 70s, whether it was by demons or dykes. Some folks have all the luck.
She suffered a back injury from one of the possession scenes. I think they had her in a harness on the bed that had some sort of pneumatic contraption that allowed the back spasms. The yelling and screaming was actually her really in pain.
Contra Mrs Le Blanc I think the mid-century approach of children being seen but not heard was the correct one. Children know next to nothing and when in the presence of their elders should be exhorted to listen, perhaps ask questions but not intrude their own opinions unbidden. Similarly priority of feeding teaches a hierarchy and respect for elders. Child-centred rearing practices have led to children growing up with less deference for their parents and their parents’ friends. This is all congenial to the project of loosening the primary ties in order to facilitate social conditioning. The sanctity of the home, which no longer exists, used to reinforce a man’s position as head of the household. Now, successive legal decisions combined with an attitude in favour of intervention render men largely reliant on begging their wives for services. Women may find this arrangement much to their liking but it can hardly encourage a man to put his head in the trap.
I’m banning you for crippling autism and bad manners.
The Norman Lear negro-comedy snippet is really quite sound. There’s no other explanation as to why Certain Groups tested out as substandard 100 years ago and are now top of the heap. It’s because they now have a hand in creating IQ tests.
I remember when I was in kindergarten and an IQ test question was—circle the object that is inflammable. One of them was an Electrolux-style vacuum cleaner. Another was a birdhouse. I forget what the others were, but if you didn’t spend much time with vacuum cleaners or birdhouses, you might well choose one of those.
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