* Ben Brantley wrote in The New York Times that “‘Hamilton’ is, among other things, about who owns history, who gets to be in charge of the narrative.”
* I figured he is your run of the mill, self flagellating, New York City white lib guy but no. He is also gay which a glance at his google images sorta also says.
wikipedia- Brantley, who is openly gay,[3] is single and lives in New York City.
So the above gay plus post-Hamiltonian, multi-ethnic mashup and pile on will be writing the history books (texts!) in a few decades. Civilization and its Discontents and the discontented are winning the culture wars!
* Broadway hasn’t mattered to regular folks since I don’t know. When was the last time you heard anyone humming a tune from a new musical? He’s touchdown dancing to the choir.
Unluckily, his type owns everything else in charge of the narrative, except for nooks and crannies like this blog, as you say. And common sense.
I wouldn’t worry about them controlling the past through their little plays, which seem to be written for ever narrower audiences.
* Broadway should be held to the same standards of non-discrimination every other business is held to, including laws against discriminating based on gender, age, and appearance. Porn movies should have to cast 84-year-old fat women as often as they cast 21-year-old vixens.
* The WaPo recently wrote this about Hamilton,“As a hero, the musical’s Hamilton represents the American dream in the form of an immigrant-made-good, born on the Caribbean Island of Nevis, then raising himself to high society through sheer determination and genius.”
This is interesting because it distinguishes Hamilton from the other Founders, and thus differentiates him from those Founders born in America. This is important because liberals and proposition-nation types like to say that the USA is a ‘nation of immigrants’. They say that we are ALL immigrants except of course for the natives.
I recall Patrick Buchanan writing against this prevailing notion that we are a nation of immigrants by explaining that our Founders for the most part were not immigrants. He pointed out how George Washington, his father and his grandfather had all been born in Virginia. He argued many Founders had similar stories, and thus we were not a nation of immigrants. Rather these were for the most part born and bred Americans who fought to establish a separate nation.
Now by promoting the notion that Hamilton was an immigrant, which he was, as opposed to the other Founders who were not, the liberals are acknowledging what Buchanan and probably most of us on this blog have always believed, namely that we are most definitely not a nation of immigrants. After all if we were a nation of immigrants then there would be no need to distinguish Hamilton from the others.
PS. As a footnote we’ve just been told that the European-born terrorists of Paris and Brussels have nothing to do with immigration. So I suppose that fact along with this new found love of Hamilton the immigrant serves to confirm that the USA is definitely not a nation of immigrants.
* This is white gentile/Jewish gays versus blacks and hispanics for jobs.
Obviously, a large percentage of potential white Hamilton actors are gay. Ditto for the non-white ones, but the black and Hispanic ones try harder to keep up a pretense of being straight while really on-the-down-low.
So the Hamilton creator—who is straight, and who was promoted by the gays and Jews of the NY theater scene as being the Great Minority Sondheim We’ve All Been Waiting For—-is biting the white gentile/Jewish gay hand that fed him and seeking to help out black and Hispanic dudes. It remains to be seen if this is just a momentary bit of infighting and he’ll be back in their good graces soon, or whether he’s pulling a Spike Lee in Mo’ Better Blues and pushing his luck a step too far.
* The “Assassin’s Creed” video games are an especially vile example of this kind of historical retconning. The transformation of the assassin in popular consciousness from villain to hero is perverse. Look at the characters thrown up as heroes in popular culture: the sniper, the assassin (the vampire?).
The younger generations already know next to nothing about history, and their poor understanding is further clouded by ridiculous crap like “Hamilton”. I wonder how many people in twenty years will actually believe that Hamilton was black.
