CINEMATIC SINS: DEAD POETS SOCIETY AND "ASSUMING THE POSITION"

Ethan Hawke as prettyboy prep school crybaby

The following is an excerpt from Andy Nowicki's upcoming publication, tentatively titled Demon in the Rough

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Film is like music in its ability to transfix and captivate its audience. Both the visual and the aural are mediums through which a hypnotic effect can take hold, causing the participant in the medium to “lose himself” temporarily and engage entirely with that which what spills into his ears and assails his eyes.

'STOCKHOLM SYNDROME' AND THE LOW-STATUS LIBIDO

This passage is taken from Andy Nowicki's recently-published Ruminations of a Low-Status Male, Volume 3: On Being Unwanted, now available on Kindle and in paperback

From the very start, the low-status male’s sex drive is a source of endless misfortune, even of calamity. Despite this indisputable fact, he still adheres to the demands of his libido and husbands it quite unthriftily, in a particularly egregious instance of “Stockholm syndrome.” He cannot fathom the notion of denying himself sex, even though, should he level with himself for a mere moment, he would be forced to admit that his concupiscence (or “thirst,” in today’s parlance) is his downfall.