I don’t want to see this movie. Here’s a nice rain frog instead.
You see a headline like this, and what can you say?
“Netflix’s Transgender Drug Lord Drama ‘Emilia Perez’ One Step Closer to Oscar Nomination”
How badly did we need a transgender drug lord movie?
How badly do we need Netflix?
This is culture rot, and eventually there will be a price to pay.
Computer-generated, make-believe, and phony as a $3 bill–and she’s all yours!
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People thoughout The Land of the Free are getting frazzled by technology that they didn’t need in the first place–and now it’s driving them up the wall. Stoves, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners: all hooked up to the Internet.
Why does anybody need a “smart” vacuum cleaner? There’s a vac with a video feed. At last! I can film the dust-bunnies under the bed!
Best of all is the rise of the “AI girlfriend,” a make-believe, computer-generated sex slave… which hackers can hack, and blackmailers can use to bleed you dry… if you’re daft enough to go for this.
Why in the world do we want hi-tech everything? Settin’ ourselves up for a mighty powerful hurt, aren’t we? The whole world’s connected! And then something goes wrong with the connection. Oops.
Monkey bars were invented 100 years ago and can now be found in thousands of playgrounds from sea to shining sea… and parents are getting edgy, and there is a growing movement to take away the monkey bars. Someone might fall off.
Has it truly come to this? They’ll take away our monkey bars? All in the interests of “safety,” of course. You can never have too much safety.
But! Anthropologists at Dartmouth University say monkey bars are good for you (https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2024/09/risky-play-exercises-ancestral-need-push-limits). As are very many forms of play–in most of which there is always the possibility of injury. Oh, my. Did that really need to be said? Really?
I think too much safety is… unsafe! We have muscles and bones that have to be tested, exercised, if they’re going to stay healthy. Monkey bars, swings, see-saws–they all fill that necessary function.
By living in such a way as to avoid all risk of injury, we court injury!
I fear for the future of common sense.
Here are some of the “Work Wanted” ads actually posted on the bulletin board at the Che Guevara Student Collective at Beezer University. That’s the one right next to the statue of John Kerry.
Trying to find a real job after earning a degree in Political Science/International Relations–what a hoot that was! One of those things they don’t tell you while you’re paying tuition (“Either stay in school or see if they can use another fry guy at Burger King…”)
Ah, well, it only took me 50 years to get my act together.
Some of you may have noticed I’m not quite up to par today–and tomorrow it’s back to daily visits to the hospital. Even so, here’s a little something from the archives.
https://leeduigon.com/?s=the+most+pc+cop+show+ever
This New Zealand cop show had a certain charm, and just a touch of quirkiness. We liked it.
But after a couple seasons, it dove down the rabbit hole with the rest of the culture rot. God help us, our Western civilization–once upon a time called “Christendom”–is in deep, deep trouble: all of it of our own making.
(And now the computer has decided not to post any images. Might as well try the laptop…)
(And for some reason the ancient laptop works… where the new computer says “I prefer not to.”)
I can only listen to so much bilge from globalists, liberals, and other utopian nudnicks before I start thinking of societies held in thrall by witch doctors. That still exists in Africa today–only now they’ve got the Internet and cell phones.
But don’t feel superior! America and Europe are every bit as credulous and superstitious as Africa. What can any witch doctor say that’s more preposterous than what we get from the World Economic Forum and the Democrat Party?
Yeah… but muti magic kills…
Tell it to the Ukrainians and Russians.
The couch potato doesn’t even know he’s under attack.
I wrote this in 2018 and it only seems more applicable with the passage of six years–not less.
A fouled culture breeds more Democrats, who befoul the culture they’re born into. Or, as I say, Kill the culture and the culture will kill you back.
That so much of this garbage is pitched to us and consumed by us–indeed, sought out by us!–as “entertainment” leaves one almost speechless.
If the Democrats win this one, next month… I think we’ve had it. Hasta la vista, baby.
Behold the mighty jackalope…
The human race has always had its storytellers. What would I do if I didn’t tell stories? But is there a point where story-telling goes too far?
TV, movies, radio, books, newspapers: and now the world-wide Internet, YouTube and all that… too much of a good thing? I mean, for how many hours of the day are we plugged in to this stuff? And how do we even begin to tell the difference between “news” and sheer poppycock?
Maybe I shouldn’t be saying this. Maybe it’s because my hip hurts and I’m more afraid of those things in my gut that don’t hurt but will kill me if the doctors don’t kill them first. Or do I just care enough to want to maintain that wall of separation between fiction and fact? If we can even find the facts.
It’s sunny out today. I think I’ll have my cigar.
When are they going to change her into a large man with problems?
Disney Corp is treating itself to “massive re-shoots” of their live-action Snow White–which was supposed to come out this year, but no dice. Now they’re saying 2025. We can’t imagine how much money has been tossed away on this.
Apart from the question of “Why bother to remake a classic cartoon that everybody has loved for decades?”, what do they think they’re doing? The new Snow White is sort of brownish. And the Seven Dwarfs–
Would you believe they’re now seven normal-sized hipsters? No, I’m not making it up: you’ll find it in the last paragraph of the linked article above. The dwarfs are now, like, five-foot-ninish, and described here and there as “seven hipsters.” This is to “avoid re-enforcing stereotypes.” You do that by creating other stereotypes.
So Snow White isn’t gonna be snow-white, the dwarfs aren’t gonna be dwarfs, they’ve already dissed the Handsome Prince as a sexual predator… and what the dickens is left of it? Why are they bothering to make this movie?
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Halloween will be here before you know it–and you’ll want to be sure your Halloween costume offends NO ONE.
I don’t know if they’re still doing this, but some years ago, colleges and looniversities set up “Halloween Hot Lines”: you could call ’em up to find out whether your costume is “offensive.” The gibbons answering the phone calls would decide.
“Progressives” really hate the idea of people enjoying themselves–unless it’s at a public execution.