WISDOM
OF THE SAGES
EPISODE II: WINTER 2017
EPISODE II: WINTER 2017
Hello
People of the World;
Well,
at the time I am writing this, it has warmed up and yet again, folks are
complaining. Man, Nature just cannot get it right for you; when it’s cold in
winter, you complain, when it warms up a bit then, you still complain. Then, as
it cools again to winter conditions, we are mad because we enjoyed the warm
day. Fool! That warm air is a result of climate energy disruption, aka “climate
change”.
Well,
here we are in second month of the year and everyone is so scared of what’s
happening. Except African-Americans and Native Americans, we’ve been here
before. Enough of this.
All
right, let’s get going:
1:[ So, he survives a vengeful god face-melting
anyone even looking at the ark, the death cult that brainwashed him and tried
to rip his heart from his chest, escaping them by riding a mining cart over
lava, and then saved his dad from a fatal gunshot with magic water poured from
a magic cup he got from a 700-year-old knight, then, when he survives a nuclear
blast by hiding in a fridge, suddenly we think it's silly? Come on….
2:[ So Rick Bayless cannot help but steal
headlines from Mexicans too? Dude, haven’t you done enough culturally
appropriative damage, you have to horn in on their protests as well? Geez.
3:[ Something that I have encountered again
recently is the prejudiced concern of the “angry Indian”. I was recently in a
disagreement, via emails, about Native first-voice and, in the end, the person
in contention ended our friendship and textually screamed at me. While I was
frustrated with the whole thing, I never found myself being angry. I guess
because it is something I am always dealing with. It prompted me to ask my
friends, my Native, male friends, if they ever encountered this.
One
said he does. Whenever we stand up for something, people automatically think we
are angry. My other friend, whom people know to be soft-spoken and non-violent,
never had this happen to him. I have had it happen in more than once instance.
I guess I am seen to be an angry person. Yet, when other people stand up, they
have to state they are angry about something when a Native man like myself is
automatically assumed to be.
4:[ Oscar Night: I am very happy that “Moonlight”
won. I am sorry that the whole Warren Beatty-tries-to-recover Thing will
forever overshadow a well-deserved win. It is a complete film in every aspect.
5:[ “Escape from Fandom Chapter 2”: So, I have an
idea for “DEADPOOL 2” that is as meta and self-aware as the first movie was not.
My idea for DEADPOOL 2: Do not shoot a sequel. Simply use CGI to face-replace
all of the villains and locations of the first film and re-release it into
theaters as a Part Two! It would be Meta because of its message about how
sequels are simply remakes of the first film and it is self-aware because they
know they are reselling the first film again; self-aware because they know that
they are doing this. THAT is what I thought the first one would be like. It was
a major disappointment. “Deadpool” cannot lend itself to low-common-denominator
style presentations. It is an insult to the character. Or, maybe his fans
really just don’t get it.
6:[ What ever happened to this web log? There was
a time when I would have an opinion on everything that was happening out there
in the mainstream media landscape. I guess I have become some sort of
pessimist. Personally, I think I have become more of a realist. I try to be
skeptical of my own beliefs. Thusly, I am an atheist, a political agnostic, an
art for art’s sake advocate, and very much against the liberal agenda of
historical revisionism for diversity’s sake.
Yeah,
I am a blast at parties.
I
started this web log to keep in touch with my friends in Wyoming and with the
friends I made here in Chicago, with a One Stop Sheet of my musings on all the
things that were only interesting to me. Since then, it simply culled down into
my thought on general stuff for effect. Now, it is simply commentary on
whatever has caught my attention. It was supposed to ignite my creative writing
my doing non-creative observation. For a time, it helped.
Now,
I can barely generate an interest in things because now, it seems everyone is
doing what I am doing, but in the visual media of YouTube videos. Funny, you
would think that I would be able to translate this into a web series. But more
and more, I have become less and less interested in sharing an opinion that
most people will ignore. I don’t think anyone reads this. If someone does, it
is barely interesting enough to solicit a response.
So,
why keep it going, becomes the question. Mainly, ego. Another tiny of me
remains genuinely interested in the happenings of the world. Becoming an
atheist has also opened my eyes to the arrogance of forcing my ideas on people.
I will never do that. But I feel I need to express a thought or two concerning
the world. I avoid politics because they were specifically design to divide
opinion and we have been falling for it beautifully since.
The
last part is curiosity. I am curious about what will happen in 300 years time
and I want to record my view of things to measure a change. I am also curious
as to who would ever read my thoughts on various un-important things like the
Oscars and Deadpool, and to see if it evokes a response. I measure the response
to such trivial matters with a sad feeling that triviality has become more
important than reality.
So,
every month, I will keep up, with some struggle, this record of thought for
others to find and react, or not react to. Since “Wisdom of the Sages” moved to
becoming a web log, moved from a web page, before that, an email newsletter,
responses and replies have ended. So, now, maybe I am on some Sisyphean task of
recording my own irrelevance. I am remarkably okay with that.
That
is it for this month.
Sorry
for the short episode again. But this is the shortest month. I have not been
good about getting to Wisdom of the Sages. Actually, I have been more vocal
about my concerns with my family here. So, I think that maybe that helps get it
out of my system and later on, I feel like I have moved on from that topic and
never get around to writing it here. Something I need to fix for future
episodes.
As
always, I invite you to comment, correct, or contradict anything I write here.
I am open to a critical debate. Thanks for taking the time to check out what I
write here and I will see you in a month.
Until
next time, remember “I try to show the schemers how pathetic their attempts to
control everything really are.”
2017
Ernest M Whiteman III
