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What’s more distracting than Black Helen of Troy is the racially-mixed crew of Odysseus. I would’ve preferred an all Black/Indian/Chinese cast to what we got. Here’s why racial-mixing breaks immersion and subverts the entire film: The core logic behind Homer’s Odyssey is Xenia (ξενία) which governs the relationship between guest and host. It prescribes standards of conduct of how you must deal with strangers/foreigners: don’t ask who they are before feeding them, give gifts, etc. Xenia is so central to this epic that each episode of the Odyssey can be read as commentary on it. Bad: Cyclops, Circe, Calypso, suitors. Good: Phaeacians, Penelope, swineherd. So why does a racially-mixed crew subvert this institution? Xenia is a boundary institution and is required because there is a strong boundary, a strong in-group/out-group distinction which a mixed-race crew subverts. In our cosmopolitan cities, we aspire to treat strangers under the same universal moral standards with which we treat fellow citizens. Our cosmopolitan moral system (e.g. human rights) is predicated on a shared human equality. But in the time of Homer, the moral code (Xenia) by which you treat the foreigner/stranger is different in kind from the one among the in-group. Xenia is not grounded primarily on some shared equal human essence. In fact, one of the reasons you need to treat the stranger well is that they may be a god in disguise. You can see Nolan subvert this distinction by transforming Xenia, which he calls “Zeus’ law”, into the Golden Rule: do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Do not underestimate the radicality of this transformation. The Golden Rule is based off of a moral symmetry. Xenia is asking you to take care of the foreigner because he is under the protection of Zeus. This one move modernizes the core logic behind the Odyssey. But why is this a bad thing? Because it removes one thing I love about the world Homer created: mystery. Odysseus is an explorer who adventures in a mysterious world not mapped and travelled. The delight of Homer’s Odyssey is that every stranger we meet can be hostile, friendly, or even a god. The foreigner was strange, dangerous, and mysterious. A mixed-race crew where Indians, Chinese, Blacks, and Whites all gel as one unit makes the world feel too small. It’s Silicon Valley, not Ithaca, Greece. If ethnic Indians & Chinese are so well integrated in Odysseus’ crew, not as mercenaries but unremarkably as “one of us,” think about what that implies about how interconnected & well explored the world is, how much cultural contact has already happened, and how much the boundary which defines Xenia has dissolved. The film replaces a civilization organized around sacred boundaries with one based on cosmopolitan inclusion. It is the modern world, a world that has a surplus in many good things, but not in mystery.

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“Mehdi Hasan Claims Islam Is Peaceful - Then This British politician has A BRUTAL Response” Speaker: My side of the argument is regularly told that we are demonising Islam and whipping up fear of Islam. But let me tell you what actually whips up fears of Islam. 9/11. The London bombings. Madrid. Mumbai. Bali. Death for apostasy. Death for blasphemy. Death for adultery. Death for homosexuality. Gender discrimination. Child marriage. Beheadings. Imprisonment for being raped. The murder of Theo van Gogh. Death threats. Sharia patrols. Polygamous marriages. This is what causes fear of Islam. It is not me. We'll be told this is just the extreme fringe of Islam. Well, look at Saudi Arabia the birthplace of Islam and custodian of its holy sites. People are executed for blasphemy and apostasy. But apparently, that's the extreme fringe? Calling Saudi Arabia the extreme fringe of Islam is like calling the Vatican the extreme fringe of Catholicism. Sorry, it just doesn't work. Then we're told violent Muslims have misunderstood Islam. Saudi Arabia has misunderstood. Iran has misunderstood. Yemen has misunderstood. Has there ever been a more spectacularly misunderstood religion than Islam? I'm constantly told that I need to respect Islam. But I'm under no greater obligation to respect Islam than any other belief. I am under no obligation to make compromises with an ideology I simply don't see as peaceful. Why don't I see it as peaceful? Because of the evidence. If I look around the world and see the countries where Islam calls the shots, all I see is brutality and violence imposed by the state.

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