Category: Culture

1.) The lead white male is a complete doofus in the movie. He is weak, idiotic, socialistic, idealistic, and manages images for a living.

2.) Businessmen are seen as greedy corporate captains of industry selfishly refusing to share their gains with the people.

3.) The white female lead is a blond Aryan type goddess who hides her immortal super-human ability from her husband while treating him the way that a owner would treat a prized pet.

4.) The black male lead is a god who is a derelict who learns from the white man how to function in civilized society. Come to find out the white Aryan female goddess and the black god are husband and wife who were created from time immemorial to be a matched pair. They belong together (as seen in a near kissing scene) and yet when together they destroy each other as well as the white man’s world.

5.) The black male god and the white female goddess eventually work together to save the day, though this results in them realizing that they have to go their separate ways in order for each of them to survive individually.

6.) The white doofus takes his white female goddess back as a wife even after he realizes that she had an intimate past with the black god.

7.) The Black god is the hero of the movie and rescues the male lead from his disastrous publicity career by emblazoning his add logo, intended to bring the world together, on the moon.

8.)A Black guy is the central cop and a white guy is the central criminal in the bank heist in the movie.

9.) The Black God, the White Goddess and the doofus white guy all work together to make sure the White criminal can’t “get his power back.” They end up making a double amputee of him.

10.) The white Goddess tells the white doofus husband that there is no such thing as fate and people have choices.

Please don’t think that any of these observations are me reading to much into the film. There is definitely a racial / gender agenda in this movie and it isn’t favorable to white males who aren’t weak doofuses.

It’s only three minutes long.

“But it is hard to discuss ‘post-modernism’ theory in any general way without recourse to the matter of historical deafness, an exasperating condition (provided you are aware of it) that determine a series of spasmodic and intermittent, but desperate, attempts at recuperation. Postmodernism theory is one of those attempts: the effort to take the temperature of the age without instruments and in a situation we are not even sure there is so coherent things as an “age,” or zeitgeist, or “system,” or “current situation” any longer.”

Fredric Jameson
Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Captialism

Postmodernism keeps decrying that no such coherent of a thing as an “age,” or zeitgeist, or “system,” or “current situation” when all the while it is providing the coherence, of an age, system and current situation.

Here is the way it works. Post-modernism putatively calls into question all meta-narratives (i.e. — age, system, zeitgeist, etc.) into question. But all the while it is doing so it is providing a meta-narrative to replace the meta-narratives that it is destroying. As we consider post-modernism’s project we have to realize that meta-narratives just can’t go away. If post-modernism is successful at being a meta-narrative destroying virus it is only because it is providing its own meta-narrative to function as a substitute for those it has destroyed.

This post-modern meta-narrative that is creating an age, system, and zeitgeist is a meta-narrative that teaches that all of reality is person variable. It is a meta-narrative of philosophical anarchy but all the same it is a narrative. It provides cultural unity by allowing all people to think they are eschewing meta-narratives when in point of fact the meta-narrative they are embracing is the one meta-narrative that teaches that all meta-narratives are fiction. Post-modernism while it negates all meta-narratives in the same move affirms the meta-narrative of negation and offers it as a means to positively construct cultural perceptions of reality — something which all successful meta-narratives are responsible to do.

So, post-modernism is only a meta-narrative virus in the sense that it eats up all other competing meta-narratives. It is not a meta-narrative virus in the sense that in its success if leaves us without an “age,” zeitgeist, system or meta-narrative.

People tend to think that post-modernism is much more sophisticated then it really is. If one keeps their eye on the fact that it is only using it meta-narrative destroying ability to subtly inject its own meta-narrative it becomes far less easier to be fooled by post-modern pretensions offered by guys like Jameson.

http://wjno.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=244038&article=4635529

The State of Michigan, not wanting to fall behind the times, has decided that it wants to pass hate crimes legislation. Now here is something I just can’t get my mind around. I mean, I always grew up believing that the motive behind just about any crime was hate. I have never heard of the idea that there could be such a thing as a “love crime.”

It really does boggle the mind. Here we have a criminal who beats the snot out of some guy and we throw the book at him, not primarily because he beat the snot out of the guy, but rather because he hated him? What genius thinks up these laws? Do they really think that criminals sit around thinking about killing someone only to be brought up short of such intent because they think, “Damn it, I’d kill the guy but I know I’d get booked for a hate crime.”(?)

Then there is the whole issue of the message it sends to potential victims. Two victims on the same night both get mugged in separate instances two blocks apart. Lamont got mugged by Leroy but Han Lee got mugged by Reggie. Lamont had two knife wounds and a bullet in his leg. Han Lee walked away with a black and blue eye. But because both Lamont and Leroy were black Lamont only gets 3-5 years. However, because Han Lee was Asian Reggie gets 10-20 years because it was a hate crime. I guess Han Lee is more important then Leroy.

Yep, that makes sense.

Here is the moral of the story. If you’re going to commit a crime, make sure that you tell your victim, “Honey, I love you.”

If this culture gets any stranger I’m going to have to start sizing myself up for straight jackets.