"AND NOW A WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR..." | 2007-01-15
I was watching a documentary that made me nostalgic. It was about the coming climate disasters, global warming/cooling. I was bit surprised when the "And now a word from our sponsor" bit was left out. In past decades, exciting documentaries on the catastrophic potential of climate change, complete with footage of hurricanes and so forth, were fun, but you had to pay for it.
At the end of each such documentary came the commercial: "We must hire millions of bureaucrats and spend trillions of dollars on any program our 'intellectuals' come up with to avoid this, and we must do it NOW!!!!!!"
Noticing that the commercial ending was absent reminded me of decades of watching documentaries with "and now a word from our sponsor" at the end. Just as commercial television required listening to the Colgate Toothpaste jungle for the thousandth time, each documentary required one listen to a final ten minutes or so of absolutely parrot-like Political Correctness, delivered by an announcer who very honestly believed, as all PC people do, that he came up with it himself.
Not that this climate-change disaster piece was wholly free of its Politically Correct commercial content. One Jewish PC artist said that climate change would cause enormous changes, and he added, "This is not a society that copes well with change."
This society does not cope well with change? So the American Indians coped well with change? Or does he think the Pharaohs would have handled the 2YK crisis better? This society copes routinely with changes that would DESTROY any culture in any century before the West rose.
What he was trying to do was add the commercial: "We are not a society that copes well with change, so we need a million "intellectuals" and a few trillion bucks to deal with it.
Yea, right, chief, like the USSR, one solid mass of governmental regulation and "intellectuals" in charge dealt with Trenobel! But he wants that same socialist approach to teach US to deal with CHANGE!
I am not arguing with this clown, I am showing how the threads of twentieth-century thought are so laughable, but so hard to laugh off.
I remember in the 1960s when every filmmaker would say, "I try to do my part in adding 'social messages" to my films. This was at the height of the ascendance of what calls itself The Greatest Generation, and while some of them didn't agree with these "social messages," ALL of them took it for granted that anything a professor advocated should be pushed at public expense.
FINALLY society as a whole is beginning to ask why in the HELL we should fall down in admiration of a filmmaker who throws Hollywood political views into the film we went to and paid for entertainment. How in the HELL does he assume that we NEED his politics. We often ALLOW it, but we do not ACCEPT it the way the group that called itself The Greatest Generation did.
So the clown who insists that the Pharaohs really knew how to deal with change simply is allowed no opposition. He could stand on his head in a chair and documentary crowd could say this was a great social comment, and there would be no opposition. But The Greatest Generation would have simply assumed it did not UNDERSTAND the DEPTHS of that social commentary.
Let's BURY them. And above all, let's bury their MENTALITY.