Ann's obviously talking about two movies referencing racism. Yes indeed, why were they blockbusters?
The answer, Annie, is because - like 12 Years a Slave - Lincoln and Red Tails are special for, finally, lavishly covering subjects blacks have rarely seen treated before. The culture is changing, the sand shifting beneath your feet. But no, like Glenn Reynolds and his recent they're-all-out-to-get-Sarah Palin rant, you'll go with your own hippy-dippy conspiracy theory:
Well sure, their "weight" = money, but - and this is HUGE - there's also the radical notion nobody that rich, and desiring to make and finance these films, cares a rat's posterior whether a certain kind of American white (who has stated she thinks blacks are "belly-aching") like these movies being made.
Sorry, but - for the sake of my up-coming album - I'm putting in a lot of over-time at work, so I can't post as usual. One thing that's given me, though, is lots of time to ponder Spielberg's Lincoln and what it means:
It's my conclusion - as is usual these days - the Republicans have it all wrong.
When Lincoln's release was announced, the Right had two concerns:
Forget #2, it's unimportant. The thing I want you to notice is their main focus - Obama. Everything is about Obama. This is one reason why many currently think the Right is racist. Just as the Left can see "raaaacists!" in the most innocuous statements, the overwhelmingly-white Right can see Obama in everything - and, in case you never noticed, he's black.
So Spielberg can't just make a movie. In the eyes of the delusional, nothing is what it is - it's what they decide it is - so Lincolnhas to be an Obama propaganda film.
Kinda off-topic, but I noticed this phenomena when hanging out with the Althouse Hillbillies:
I didn't link to articles on TMR so they could see accurate information - it was to link-whore my site - because they insisted that was so.
And I don't remark on Glenn Reynolds because he's constantly (and still) making wrong calls - the Hillbillies said it was because I was jealous the Right's online Alpha-Beta wasn't linking to me, so that had to be the truth as well.
In other words, it didn't matter what I am, did, and said - they were going to tell me what I am, did, and said - so, for them, that became what I am, did, and said. Evidence be damned.
And they outnumber little ol' me, so there.
Like any cultists, reality readjustment must - and had - been achieved. For them.
Ann Althouse included.
For instance, after years of ridiculing, attacking, and dissecting NewAge, cultism, and religion - including Mormonism - this atheist didn't become a "bigot" until the Ann and her Hillbillies wrong-headedly (and hypocritically) decided to go along with, and defend, Romney. Did Ann Althouse - ostensibly my friend - ever say anything about this pure example of character assassination happening under her banner? Not a word. Anyone who said anything about Mormonism was a "bigot," and that was that, because that's the way she and her minions wanted it.
Along with never giving me my due when I was calling situations correctly - and saying being right is "ugly" - I have many damned good reasons for why I stopped participating on the Althouse blog.
Miss you over at Althouse! People keep asking about you.
Tough. I'm no masochist, and have had enough of being mistreated by those on "my side," merely because it suits their political purposes.
And - like Obama - I, too, am still black, faced with an overwhelmingly-white angry mob.
I'll come back to this point in my further thoughts about Lincoln, because it's important, but let's get back to the Right and Obama! Obama! Obama!
Remember when Romney was being slammed for going cross-country with his dog on the roof of his car? What was the Right's reaction? Not to admit Romney was cruel to his pet, but for (the usually very smart) Jim Treacher to be a jerk and dig up an example of Obama eating dog. Did Obama have a choice? No, he was a child - but forget reality - this was hilarious stuff, right? Not to me. So I was the jerk. I even got an e-mail from Jim Treacher saying I had mental problems.
But, as the results of the election prove, by feeding the delusional mob the rancid red meat they desired - and losing - Jim Treacher obviously knows more about what's good politics than I do.
"I'm the biggest sucker who ever walked the face of the Earth."
-- Eric Roth, screenwriter, on losing all his retirement money (along with Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg) in Bernard Madoff's $50-billion Ponzi scheme, in The Los Angeles Times.
Hey, NewAgers, see that quote? That's what you should've been saying a looonnngg time ago. And if you haven't yet, you will:
UPDATE: I've got to add that, just like my Aunt Alice, I've been consistently telling you guys you're stupid. But you don't believe it. Meanwhile, everywhere you look, things are falling apart - and it sure ain't guys like me in charge.
My foster mother, Johnnie Mae Hubert (who I've quoted before - "The Devil talks pretty" - regarding following gurus) used to say "a hard head makes a soft behind" and, I'm telling you, the Baby Boomers (and the kids they raised) have the unfortunate luck to be, both, the largest generation - with the hardest damn heads - ever seen in the history of the entire world. It's long past time for them to grow up, and - if they don't want to completely destroy where they live - "grow up" means getting out of the way and letting the truly knowledgeable people you can trust, who actually know what they're doing, do what needs to be done. Just get out of the way. Sit down. Shut up. Practice being humble - as you Buddhist types are always arrogantly admonishing others to do.
I know, I know - you have no idea who those "truly knowledgeable people you can trust" are, right? Here's a hint:
They're the ones who have been telling you you're stupid.
A "higher level of consciousness", Bill? Wow, that's very political language you're using. But wait - while I've got you (and I also see Michael Douglas, and Bill Gates, there), let me drop this on you - here's a really original idea (You're gonna love this):
Instead of you guys going to high-minded rich folks gatherings that the rest of us don't attend - and dropping new age jargon about what you and Dr. Evil (A.K.A. that dick-for-brains, Ken Wilber) are planning to do to us less-evolved beings - how about you wait until we give you permission to fool around inside of our heads?
How about that? You know: Our leaders get truthful about their ass-backwards new age beliefs on television, maybe with Tony Robbins, while waving their bio-electric shields, and actually telling us what Eleanor Roosevelt thinks we ought to do? (Screw Ken Wilber. We don't even know Ken Wilber.) Then, all us poor folk will give you a thumbs up, or a thumbs down, based on the honest "insights" Billy/Tony/Kenny/Hillary/Eleanor/Franklin/whoever channels? Whataya say?
That would be great, for a change, because - if you ask me - Monica didn't seem too happy,...after you fooled around with,...with her,...well, with whatever you fooled around with. (Ask Madonna, she thinks she's jewish: Wasn'tkosher.) Something tells me the rest of us ain't gonna like whatever you're planning behind closed doors, this time, either.
Speaking of bad planning, I was re-reading some of author/friend Steve Salerno's old posts, over at his (highly-recommended) SHAMblog, and this quote - regarding new agers, and The Secret - got my attention:
"We've reached a curious juncture in American history where the people who reject magical thinking are the outcasts."
Whoa! That's me, Boys and Girls! Kicked to the motherfuckin' curb - by a woo no less! But forget about my *little problem* for now (please, just this once, you oh-so-sensitive souls) and let's focus on the meaning of that sentence for a minute:
New agers (Those apparently wonderful peace-loving walking smiley hugs) are actually ugly little evil bastards in disguise, who are making social outcasts of people like me, O.K.?
Ug-ly. Terrible. A diabolical plan. A level of evil that's only worthy of a group that can produce a homeopathic "hustledork". I salute them all, now let's move on:
I continue to Steve's comments section, and a guy named Les Stewart writes in to say this:
"You want proof based on some stupid Greek model. They want to dance around a pagan fire. Heads up, fellow heretics. McLuhan warned about this re-tribalization and its link between identity and violence. Deep waters ahead, I'm afraid."
Deep waters, indeed - especially when you're wading over to Maureen Callahan's recent headline in the New York Post:
First off, I'm glad the word "cult" is in there, so nobody can accuse me of throwing the 'c' word around (Maureen said it, not me, and she's a New Yorker - whole 'nother coast - so there.). But, even better, the first quote in her article is from one Charlotte Harrigan, who says her "sister watches ‘Oprah’ a lot; she’s into all that fabulous cult stuff.”
"Fabulous cult stuff"!?! FABULOUS CULT STUFF!?! Ha! (I'll say it again:) Ha!
Or as Dave Chappelle says in his famous Oprah Winfrey episode: "Gotcha, Bitch!"
Yea, O.K., I agree: The way they dressed in Heaven's Gate was waaay cool: They were "matching" and blacks always like that. And in that fashionable spirit (Is that a joke? I can't tell anymore) let's try to put this outfit together:
Supposedly super-sensitive gullible types (who may be prone to track suits) are being led through Oprah Winfrey to identify with cultish new age thinking, like The Secret, and, once empowered, being the super human assholes they truly are, they're trying to create outcasts by emotionally blind-siding the people-who-don't-mind-owning-guns-because-they-don't-indulge-in-magical thinking - which is creating a future *potential* for violence.
Is that Germany connection too strong? Doesn't sound like it. (Might read like it but it doesn't sound like it.) Why not? Because, first of all, we've all seen how Secretrons behave when challenged (And especially when Cosmic Connie challenges 'em: she's brutal.). So, it's pretty obvious, New agers are NOT the best company to keep when you want to think for yourself. They start snarling and getting nasty, and all that hippy "peace and love" stuff vanishes in an instant. As another recent visitor to SHAMblog said - and I hope my ex is reading this:
"[They] can be as negative as [they] want to be, so long as [they're] being negative,...about those [they] feel are negative."
Which, of course, was me - the guy who loved his wife, completely, for 20 years - not the husledork she recently met who gave her mother water and called it medicine. But I digress,...
Anyway, that description of new agers sounds a lot like Hitler-shit to me. I, also, think new agers have got nazi-like tendencies because your boy, Crackers (that's me) has been crawling around on the less savory side of the new age tracks, where only new agers, and crazy christians, dare to tread. The dark places that smart-ass (but wimpy) scientists won't go because, they say, they think such people are too stupid to be seriously harmful to anyone - my present situation excepted. (My situation, to them, is blamed on my belligerence, and being a bad husband, blah, blah, blah. Scientists: Go figure.)
Switching to pop culture for a moment (Because it's my blog - such power:) Steven Spielberg was acknowledging fact when he showed the nazis as occultists in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Himmler, and Hess were very open about their faith in occult beliefs, while Hitler was always going on about his love for God and his hatred for atheists. Can you imagine? Take a note:
Hitler - not the "open-minded" type.
I made a point (in the previous version of TMR) of pointing out that, it's in the publishing world that you can most clearly see the cult evolution in America: From the occult section of bookstores becoming the new age section, and - once extreme embarrassment about the Harmonic Convergence set in - new age slowly morphing into the mind/body cult, which has since become such a huge success that it's everywhere now - in hospitals and clinics, advertising, Larry Craig - literally everywhere. It's enough to make you think it's the non-believers who are idiots.
But it's that big brain of viral marketing, Chris Locke, of the Mystic Bourgeoisie (who was once a new age-y believer himself) who has been making explicit the occult/new age/mind-body/nazi connection for some time now. I just fell in "Locke-step". (Sorry - couldn't resist: Hitler. Locke. "Locke-Step"?) Sigh.
According to the paranoid crackpot christian sources - and the good, reliable, trustworthy folks - two of the main features of the nazi new age movement are A) a willingness to hide what they're up to. And B) a lack of morality, driven by an extreme inability to tell right from wrong, good from evil, water from medicine, R. Kelly from Gene Kelly, etc.. Lawrence A. Pile describes the new age outlook, in almost exactly the same manner, in his piece on Wellspring, called The Siren Call of the Pied Pipers:
"If 'all is one,' then there are not only no distinctions between God and man, there are also no distinctions between truth and falsehood, right and wrong, good and evil. In fact, all distinctions are mere illusion. To quote Erhard, "What is, is, and what isn't, isn't." Or, as the EST graduation booklet put it, "Obviously the truth is what's so. Not so obviously, it's also so what."
I mean, if all these new age nazi-types are finding their own truth, how can even they hope to maintain a community? Hold a marriage, or relationship, together? Keep a friendship? Save the Jews - I mean, make any sense at all? Hell, this post stopped making sense a long time ago - that's how big of a problem this is!
Do I have to spell it all out for you in detail? Here:
With new age nazis selfishly - and without evidence - defending the indefensible, society itself (as the New York Post article indicates - with black people) is becoming impossible to keep together - and, you don't have to look hard to find evidence of it (read this post!). Aren't we seeing it, on a large scale, already? Aren't rank "partisanship", and "gridlock", the political buzzwords of the day? Right up there with Nancy Pelosi and Superbad?
I say new age-nazi-indoctrinated Oprah voters are either, like Hitler, unable to let go of their "truth" (their political "beliefs") no matter what the facts on the ground indicate,...or, like Hillary, they're switching their positions, without regard to the integrity of those they just held. And they're confusing the rest of us. But that's exactly what new age doctrine says we should expect: Because they're all Oprah-Hitler-Hillary-God/Hickory-Dickory-Dock now.
