Dear Alix: You navigate through the congestion of shibboleths, amulets, and peddlers of "magic beans" with such ease and grace. YES! "Idiocracy" was a stupendous prophecy which is rapidly becoming the norm. Another such movie (Demolition Man, with Sly Stallone and Sandra Bullock) is a psychological example of that queer sensation we have as with mosquito bites--"the edge of the itch" which is perversely sort of pleasant now and then NOW an intolerable irritation. The "sex" scene "itches" as does the scene where the penalty chits are dispensed by artificial intelligence (a machine) for "violations of the verbal morality statutes." * Perhaps the most tragic thing of the two films is that too many of those who watch and recoil at the absurdities and dangers, also rather molecularly convert the threats into psychological balms which actually serve to repress urges to act in a way to prevent (or end) the dangers of the film. I find almost all late-evening TV "comedy" to be just that---converters of danger instincts into anesthetics to make us cooperative drone-slaves, chortling at our plight as we edge ever closer to the abyss*, as we even see others tumbling with perverse "edge of the itch" grins, while simultaneous and involuntary skid marks begin and true terror settles in....just before the splat.
Thanks, ever so much for the now-ness and hope you bring.
Ever your friend,
GlassGun!
*Marp Point at the end of the Battle of Saipan in WW II come to mind.
Dear Alix: You navigate through the congestion of shibboleths, amulets, and peddlers of "magic beans" with such ease and grace. YES! "Idiocracy" was a stupendous prophecy which is rapidly becoming the norm. Another such movie (Demolition Man, with Sly Stallone and Sandra Bullock) is a psychological example of that queer sensation we have as with mosquito bites--"the edge of the itch" which is perversely sort of pleasant now and then NOW an intolerable irritation. The "sex" scene "itches" as does the scene where the penalty chits are dispensed by artificial intelligence (a machine) for "violations of the verbal morality statutes." * Perhaps the most tragic thing of the two films is that too many of those who watch and recoil at the absurdities and dangers, also rather molecularly convert the threats into psychological balms which actually serve to repress urges to act in a way to prevent (or end) the dangers of the film. I find almost all late-evening TV "comedy" to be just that---converters of danger instincts into anesthetics to make us cooperative drone-slaves, chortling at our plight as we edge ever closer to the abyss*, as we even see others tumbling with perverse "edge of the itch" grins, while simultaneous and involuntary skid marks begin and true terror settles in....just before the splat.
Thanks, ever so much for the now-ness and hope you bring.
Ever your friend,
GlassGun!
*Marp Point at the end of the Battle of Saipan in WW II come to mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz4HEEiJuGo