WISDOM OF THE
SAGES
EPISODE THREE
– SPRING 2015
Hello People of the World;
Well, it looks like the last vestiges of this past,
oh-so-harsh winter are proving very difficult to shake off. But hey, that’s the
weather for you. Here we are in the third month of twenty-fifteen and it looks
like more of the same form all quarters. Yet, we still think that we are the
center of it all and how it affects us is what counts the most. Get real,
people.
Here I am hammering out another screed of knowledge
bombs just for you. I’ll take this to the last minute if need be. Just so you
can have another silly ‘blog to read when you’re bored.
Let’s get this month’s edition started, shall we:
1 :[ ICONOCLASTS: Welp, my show is opened at the
Thompson Center downtown. It is about how to honestly express yourself as a
Native American artist without falling into the same old trappings of clichéd
imagery that pervades the medium. It also criticizes the pay for play mentality
of modern Native art in general. I understand that it is not a philosophy that
many can get behind but I hope I get the chance to curate a follow up….
2 :[ You can feel the weigh of the earth beneath
you, the roar of the wind in your ears, yet you are unfettered and soaring
through the cold and wet sky. The sun does burn your back and you stretch out
your arms, pushing yourself further and further up. Earth tries to pull you
back but can only keep you so long. Beneath you, the continents rumble on
towards their uncared for destinations and earthquakes. The wind blown clouds
shift past your sight, blocking the sparkle blue-black oceans that roll past.
You urge yourself to slip between the current, to fleet you faster along, and
toward the cautious occurrence….
3 :[ Something is wrong here. The way we had hoped
things would be, are not. It is like we took a huge step backwards. Yet, we
keep looking at our phones and telling ourselves that as long as we can afford
“Netflix”, we don’t have to care that our neighbor has enough. Something is
wrong here. We stare at screen and judge our worth based on slave wages and
ancient myths. We cannot see what the real problems are because we want to look
good pretending we are the moral standard or that our favorite character is the
prince who was promised…
There is something wrong here. George Orwell feared
that what we hate would ruin us. Aldous Huxley feared what we love would destroy
us. Looking around and seeing how much we are staring into our phones, I cannot
help but think that maybe Huxley was right….
4 :[ A Student just said, “It doesn’t matter, I’ll
still take your girl.” They were talk about how one fella was more fit that the
other and the other said, “It doesn’t matter, I’ll still take your girl” which
I thought was pretty funny that eighth graders were talking like that.
5 :[ #AmIGeekEnough? I think I have watched the
entirety of Season Eight of Doctor Who exclusively through YouTube reaction
videos….
6 :[ Speaking of Reaction Videos: The Ernest Bear
Show is actually more popular than anything else I have done on my YT Channel.
I started the Ernest Bear Show as a reaction to “reaction videos”. But instead
of putting my stupid mug on camera, I though my childhood toy take the blame, I
mean, put forward my opinions on things we seem to be OVER-reacting to, like TV
shows and movie trailers. Look for more to come.
7 :[ Cuba Discussions: The other day one of my best
friends, Cuba, and I were geeking out and talking about all the movies that are
set to come out this year as well as movie news and rumors. It is one of our
greatest bonds: being nerds. So the subject came up of the recasting of Indiana
Jones with Chris Pratt, of “Parks and Rec” and “Guardians of the Galaxy” fame
being bolstered by shit-brained fanboys to replace Harrison Ford. But this
cannot be. You see, Harrison Ford brought a vast amount of earnestness to the
role that the goofy-ass Pratt cannot hope to match. Sure, “Raiders of the Lost
Ark” was am action-adventure story with humor, but the humor was never the
driving force of the character. It was the verisimilitude of the situations and
the gravity of the role that made “Raiders’ what it was: lightning in a bottle.
You can NEVER hope to replicate it, even though they tried. What stands out to
me is the hokey-ness of the humor of the “Last Crusade”, with its jokey
demeanor and turning the great character of Marcus Brody into a dullard, it was
stupid. This is why I do not have the same fondness for “Last Crucade” as I do
for “Raiders”. Andy from “Parks and Rec” just cannot hope to match what Ford
brought to the role.
But that is what fanboys do. An actor does one or
two things they like and they fall all over themselves pushing their vision of
a shit heel actor upon a great character. Then, we get the “Affleck is Batman”
debacle all over again. Yeah, yeah, “The Town” and “Argo”, but those are only
TWO movies when Affleck has a shitload of movies where he sucks ass. Then,
whenever fanboys tell me I CAN’T cite “Daredevil” as proof of Affleck’s
terribleness, all I say is “well, how about all the rest of his movies then?”
If anything I hope now that Disney owns the rights
to the character, we get Pixar’s Indiana Jones. Just bring use new adventures
with a Harrison Ford avatar. It would still be better than a doofus pretending
his awesome….
8 :[ Coffee Shop Adventures: Most conversations
always end up being about how other people “just don’t get” what you do because
you are so far advanced and awesome. Face it, your job, your business, your
office gets along just fine without you. Sorry….
So that is it for this month. Still playing it fast
and loose with WOS for now. Keeping it short and sweet these days. Feel free to
comment, correct, or contradict anything you read here.
Until next month, remember “I try to show the
schemers how pathetic their attempts to control everything really are.”
2015 Ernest M Whiteman III
