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<blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8572939" data-attributes="member: 6796468">... kind of... Mannahnin hits it better, here:More specifically: Howard was a RAMPAGING Racist. Take another look at that map I posted earlier.<img src="https://images-geeknative-com.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/10003148/Hyborian-Age-of-Conan-the-Barbarian-map.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Sure, you've got Shemites who are Semites/Semitic, but there's also IRANISTAN. And Afghulistan. Punt. Brythunia/Brittania. Amazonia, Asgard, Nordheim...He wasn't doing what Tolkien was doing with using &quot;Reminiscent Names&quot;. He was making hyper-racist caricatures of real world peoples and places. His Darfari Africans are cannibals who sharpen their teeth. His Zamoran Romani are thieves and assassins. His Turkish Turani are oil-slathered hairy warriors with big guts who lounge in their palaces with a harem tending their whims.As far as Nietzsche... He was one of the fathers of what would eventually be Existentialist thought. And &quot;That which does not kill you makes you stronger&quot; literally means &quot;You change if you don't die&quot;. You become someone else. Reforged, in the previous allegories alluded to in Howard's work and inferred to exist in Millius's movie.Like. I get he was Right-Wing. That doesn't mean he somehow rejected existentialist thought.Don't get me wrong. He -absolutely- made Thulsa Doom's minions as a clear hippie allegory. I'm not debating that or trying to poo-poo on his very obvious disgust with them. Hell, making one of the leaders in the minion-army into a gay man interested in getting Conan naked was an even more obvious nod to the right from Milius. Just saying. Existentialism isn't a political ideology. It just exists as a school of thought.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Steampunkette, post: 8572939, member: 6796468"] ... kind of... Mannahnin hits it better, here: More specifically: Howard was a RAMPAGING Racist. Take another look at that map I posted earlier. [IMG]https://images-geeknative-com.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/10003148/Hyborian-Age-of-Conan-the-Barbarian-map.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1[/IMG] Sure, you've got Shemites who are Semites/Semitic, but there's also IRANISTAN. And Afghulistan. Punt. Brythunia/Brittania. Amazonia, Asgard, Nordheim... He wasn't doing what Tolkien was doing with using "Reminiscent Names". He was making hyper-racist caricatures of real world peoples and places. His Darfari Africans are cannibals who sharpen their teeth. His Zamoran Romani are thieves and assassins. His Turkish Turani are oil-slathered hairy warriors with big guts who lounge in their palaces with a harem tending their whims. As far as Nietzsche... He was one of the fathers of what would eventually be Existentialist thought. And "That which does not kill you makes you stronger" literally means "You change if you don't die". You become someone else. Reforged, in the previous allegories alluded to in Howard's work and inferred to exist in Millius's movie. Like. I get he was Right-Wing. That doesn't mean he somehow rejected existentialist thought. Don't get me wrong. He -absolutely- made Thulsa Doom's minions as a clear hippie allegory. I'm not debating that or trying to poo-poo on his very obvious disgust with them. Hell, making one of the leaders in the minion-army into a gay man interested in getting Conan naked was an even more obvious nod to the right from Milius. Just saying. Existentialism isn't a political ideology. It just exists as a school of thought. [/QUOTE]

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