{"id":15944,"date":"2016-10-12T16:15:13","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T23:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=15944"},"modified":"2016-10-12T16:15:24","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T23:15:24","slug":"archtypes-and-tropes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2016\/10\/12\/archtypes-and-tropes\/","title":{"rendered":"archetypes and tropes"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is worth pointing out that the hero for the serial killer in Brett Easton Ellis’s American Psycho<\/a> …<\/p>\n

… and, yes, I know: everything is fantasy sequences from the CEO boardroom and there is no serial killer here per se …<\/p>\n

… reflecting a sociopathy of 1980s corporate New York …<\/p>\n

And the hero of Patrick Bateman is… Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(An earlier vintage, I suppose<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

A curious archtype we have here.\u00c2\u00a0 And that question swirls about… “How did he come to the summit as nominee of a major political party?”\u00c2\u00a0 As far back as the late 80s \/ early 90s, he was an obvious foil to fulfill this role in (controversial, a book described by an actual murderer as his “bible” and floats about lists for “banned book week”) literature.<\/p>\n

And trying to analyze the appeals and dis-appeals of the candidates will lead one into a little trouble.\u00c2\u00a0 We got this one in 2000<\/a>, and I’d wager George W Bush makes a better Paul Metzler than Donald Trump — but assemble Al Gore and Hillary Clinton for Tracy Glick, with now the gender bias coming fully into place<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 So,when (sans movie) an editorial appears after the first debate describing the teen film motifs with the know-it-all honor student (girl) who’s done his homework and the sneering devil may care (boy) who “plays by his own rules” — an anti-hero who I suppose fulfills his role — I see this later derided in a liberal mag as an example of media sexism.\u00c2\u00a0 Which presents the problem \/ question of trying to analyze and spell out sometimes sexist motifs running across the American electorate.<\/p>\n

Trying to churn Donald Trump into a sympathetic and redeemable character (and the ghost writer for Art of the Deal deeply regrets doing so<\/a>) and you inevitably land on this contortion<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Another William Randolph Hearst<\/a> \/ Citizen Kane.\u00c2\u00a0 And we await Donald Trump on the eve of his election walking to the balcony as his angry crowd of misguided true believers (who somehow think a Clinton 20 point landslide was “stolen” from the rightful winner Trump) is now desperately shouting “Rosebud!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is worth pointing out that the hero for the serial killer in Brett Easton Ellis’s American Psycho … … and, yes, I know: everything is fantasy sequences from the CEO boardroom and there is no serial killer here per se … … reflecting a sociopathy of 1980s corporate New York … And the hero […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15944"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15946,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15944\/revisions\/15946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}