Sunday, January 7, 2018
2018 - The World As It is
Color me done.
I’m done with non-judgment, co-existence, and moral grayness. Done. If I wanted to live on a typical American college campus, I’d go live in a dorm and buy a gas mask. Why a gas mask? Come on. Take a guess.
In 2018, I plan to judge, exist, and live in the light of truth.
The Golden Globes are tonight. It’s a big party thrown by Hollywood’s most sparkly rapists and shiniest victims. You’ll know the victims because they’ll be wearing black.
PLEASE NOTE: I do not now nor have I ever believed all men are rapists, and I’ve known of quite a few predatory women in my day as well.
For forty years, Hollywood has been attempting to shape our attitudes and judgments about home, family, God, country, men, women, boys, girls, sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll. And we’ve lapped it up. The same Hollywood that stood silently by while big, fat, crusty, star-makers ejaculated into potted plants in public restaurants.
It isn’t just that Harvey Weinstein abuses people and plants. That’s a question for police and legions of lawyers, and I hope that they answer it by slamming the cage door shut on him. It’s that Harvey Weinstein has been “green lighting” some of the most watched, awarded, and popular movies in the industry. This is the nasty man that bought the rights to that guy’s book or passed on her story. Things that make you go . . . hmmm. What books didn’t this creepy old man decide to throw the weight of his power and money behind? Which stories will never get told? And how many stars will never get made? Because they were not morally gray.
And get this! Hollywood is one of the biggest champions of the notions of coexistence, diversity, and unconditional acceptance. I bet.
COEXIST? How? How does one coexist with rapists? Or those whose moral compass is so broken they would make excuses for rapists? A society without judgment is quite simply a dangerous place to live.
I grew up in the freewheeling, free-loving ‘60’s. If it feels good do it. That’s what society told the rising generation, and they did. And now the world doesn’t like the results when the feel-good hipsters became the scummy power brokers of the 21st century.
But it feels good, and they want to do it. And why shouldn’t they? “Because it hurts others,” we shout, “that’s why.” Careful. That smacks of old-fashioned morality and no one likes a prude.
There were those who tried to tell the world. They were mocked and insulted and ignored. It puts me in mind of that scripture in our sacred texts that says something along the lines of beware to those that mock for they shall mourn.
Linda (Hands Off) Zern
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