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The (INSANITY) Virus: update 06/28/2014 by John Gasparro Jr.
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Posted: Saturday, June 28, 2014
There seems to be another "virus" affecting society today. Is it in the water, the coffee, or the soda?
A while back, I wrote a series of articles for the local newspaper, titled: (The Insanity Virus). I should have made it a syndicated column--hindsight! Because: the "insanity" virus is still very active in this country--and others.
Most recent is the about to be released movie (The Interview). This movie is getting a lot of flack from both concerned and unconcerned people in the US and North Korea. The movie is about two reckless, young journalists who are contracted by the CIA to assassinate North Korea's leader (Kim Jung-un). North Korea threatens all-out-war with the US if the movie is released in the Fall. It claims that the US is provoking war by inciting violence on it's country by using the movie business as a venue.
Wars have been waged over much less incitement! I don't consider this potential threat as one to be downplayed. This type of "insanity" seems to be on the rise in recent years. I sometimes say to my friends: "I don't know if it's in the water, or it's in the coffee, or it's in the soda, but there is some kind of virus affecting peoples thinking today and causing them to do and say crazzy thinngs...."
This movie is just another example of irresponsible and insane behaviour by the film industry in taking too much liberty in the use of "Freedom-of-Speech" (art) to satisfy the morbid cravings of a violent society. When will enough be "ENOUGH"?
You have apparently become quite conservative in your elder years like so many who remember the "greatest generation" fondly and its innocence, while conveniently forgetting segregation, colonialism, and all the other ills that faced our nation and our world in those innocent times with tyrants a plenty. I seem to recall that a certain Charlie Chaplin, later condemned and exiled in France did a spoof of Hitler called "The Little Dictator." Was he insane? I don't think so. He was brilliant.
Dennis Rodman's inroads into the life of the little dictator is no more bizarre or dangerous.
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Dennis Rodman's inroads into the life of the little dictator is no more bizarre or dangerous.
Last Sunday I watched the first episode of "Tyrant." It appears to be a slightly veiled parody of what is unfolding in Syria.
I would agree with you that the media, especially movies, while heavily censored for a natural and wonderful experience, sex, seem to have increasingly violent content as some sort of redeeming value. In fact, the heroes of these encounters always survive violence that would have had them killed in the first few minutes of the movie as they kill countless nameless others on their way to victory in final defeat of their archenemy, usually down to a hand to hand fight to the death. This formula always seems to create blockbusters.
And the ultraviolent Transformer empire appeals to the youngest kids, when they only really want to transform their cars and trucks into robots.
Ron
well done