I was trying to relax tonight and take a break from the world.\u00a0 I went to a high school athletic awards ceremony for one of my grandsons.\u00a0 It was exactly as anyone who has been to such an event would expect.\u00a0 Coaches make short speeches in praise of the athletes and the kids seem uncomfortable and awkward as they stand on stage and accept the awards and the applause of their peers and relatives.\u00a0 From my perspective it was very rewarding.\u00a0 To see the young people behaving civilly and appropriately while the outside world is descending into barbarism provides a splinter of hope for the future.<\/p>\n
I came home in the glow of good spirits and was prepared to watch with Camera Girl, the pre-recorded episode of her current favorite tv show, Wheel of Fortune.\u00a0 But alas, it had been pre-empted by a news report about Donald Trump being indicted by the Justice Department for possession of some supposedly classified documents.\u00a0 We were fast-forwarding through the recording so I couldn\u2019t hear any of the audio but I could read the banner under the video and that was what it was about.\u00a0 But what can you do?\u00a0 When you live in a banana republic these are the things that go on.\u00a0 So, I looked for some other way to amuse myself, although my buoyant mood was substantially quenched.<\/p>\n
I had recorded the Keanu Reeves remake of \u201cThe Day the Earth Stood Still.\u201d\u00a0 Previously I had seen short segments of the film while looking for something to watch and it hadn\u2019t looked too promising but I figured, \u201cHow bad could it be?\u201d\u00a0 Well, I found out.<\/p>\n
The original movie had suffered from a lethal dose of sanctimonious pacifism.\u00a0 This latter edition is orders of magnitude worse.\u00a0 In addition to having the painfully wooden acting abilities of Reeves on full display for most of the film, it also tried to convince us that John Cleese was an Einstein-level physicist and that Kathy Bates was the Secretary of Defense (although the latter would make perfect sense in a second Biden term).<\/p>\n
And in this remake the aliens aren\u2019t going to destroy Earth.\u00a0 They were going to save it by eliminating mankind.\u00a0 They even went to the trouble to airlift animal species off the planet to save them for after the Earth had been swept clean of man.\u00a0 And even after Klaatu is persuaded to save humanity from his swarm of ravenous nanobots, he imposes some kind of draconian solution that renders electrical generation, anywhere on Earth, impossible.\u00a0 In other words, he saves us but pushes us back into the pre-industrial era.\u00a0 Here is Gaia\u2019s revenge.\u00a0 Instead of Keanu Reeves why didn\u2019t they cast Al Gore as Klaatu?\u00a0 It would\u2019ve been the perfect cherry on the sundae of this pile of crap.<\/p>\n
And somehow, I found a perfect alignment between the Trump indictment and the sensibilities of this dismal mess of a movie.\u00a0 We\u2019re surrounded by imbeciles.\u00a0 Only an imbecile would believe that the indictment was anything but naked partisan lawfare.\u00a0 Only an imbecile would enjoy the self-loathing and junk science that informed this vacuous mess.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re in a lot of trouble.\u00a0 The country is run by very bad people.\u00a0 And unfortunately, the stupid obey them implicitly and the stupid are in the majority.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been trying to guess what the most likely outcome for all of this will be.\u00a0 It almost seems that the destruction of our civilization will be accomplished momentarily.\u00a0 The cities are crumbling and the economic wealth of the country is being drained off before our eyes.\u00a0 Maybe the speed with which the damage is being done will panic even the stupidest leftist into changing course and throwing out the Democrats.<\/p>\n
But somehow, I don\u2019t see it.\u00a0 I think they\u2019ve figured out the bread and circuses routine sufficiently well to keep the Millennials and Zoomers sitting in their parents\u2019 basements right through the apocalypse itself.\u00a0 Lately the pediatric transitioning has elicited a response from people.\u00a0 But is it just a reflex?\u00a0 Is the brain already gone and this is just the muscles spasming?\u00a0 Sorry, this is so dark.\u00a0 But right now, I think we\u2019re in a very dark place.<\/p>\n
Lord, save us from the imbeciles.\u00a0 They\u2019re everywhere you look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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