WISDOM
OF THE SAGES
EPISODE III: SPRING 2018
EPISODE III: SPRING 2018
Hello
People of the World;
Oh
No! It’s raining these days! GASP! How could the world turn and the seasons
change so suddenly that you are once again, caught unawares, that in your
impotence can do nothing but complain that it rains, some how, in the spring.
What are we to do as human beings on the earth, when the weather changes so
unexpectedly, season to season? Give up, I guess.
Here
we are in March and spring has sprung. Seriously, I cannot think of anything
more to add. All right, let’s get going:
1:[ Opening thoughts: Let’s face it – You forgot
you saw Star Wars The Last Jedi, didn’t you? Even though it’s on DVD now….
2:[ I don’t know how clear the original Star Wars
could have been. The Rebels discovered a weakness – an exhaust port, beneath
the main port. Most things mechanical with a power source have an exhaust. You
have an anus, for instance. This is NOT a plot hole! I can hear you know “but,
but, but-.”
The
Empire KNEW it was there and a potential hazard! People forgot that it was “Ray
Shielded!” Meant, it was protected. Otherwise anyone could have dropped a
severed hand in there and it would have blown up. That is why the Rebels needed
to use Proton Torpedoes, which could penetrate the ray shield. Just if people
just pay attention we wouldn’t have needed that stupid fucking “Rogue One” to
make things stupider for people…
3:[ Black Panther Review? It has taken me a while
to gather my thoughts. It is a great movie and has had such a large impact for
many audiences. Of course, there is, or, will be backlash. There always is when
people do not want to admit something like a “Black Panther” can be a hit. I
love that non-African and non-African-Americans are suddenly African cultural
political experts in discussing why they don’t like the movie.
I
thought it was pretty good with probably the tightest Marvel script in their
MCU. The characters matched T-Challa’s charisma shown in “Civil War” and it
went a long way to serve as an origin story for Black Panther, Killmonger, fit
in the MCU pantheon as well as the over Infinity War story arc, touch on issues
that affect African and African American peoples, while being both a
representation and voice for those audiences, and become a cultural touchstone
for them as well. Which it all does, thanks to Ryan Coogler’s direction.
Go
see it again.
4:[ What if we had to trade places with the
people we do charity for? Charity would dry up immediately, because the Ice
Bucket Challenges and Stair Climbing and the Walks for Life are for us, because
we’re fucking heroes and not the kid fighting cancer.
It
has gotten so self-masturbatory and vainglorious that it is fucking labeled “Hero”
Registration for the Shamrock Shuffle. Seriously? Trade places with the people
you are doing the awesome thing for. It would save their lives, you know, if
that actually mattered to you….
5:[ I have been listening to way too much “Lonely
Island” music because so much of it reminds me of the attitude in Native
American Art…
6:[ “Toys R US” is going out of business. Another
big corporation could not compete with the online market. Here we are now,
lamenting the death of childhood memories, the death of the working class in
the loss of jobs, and yet, we still have the fucking gall to pick the bones of
Toys R Us when they need to sell off their inventory. I am so happy all those
people you were lamenting could lose their jobs just so you can take the 60%
discount on toys, fucking TOYS, cheap plastic shit you’ll throw away in year,
or, worse, sell off yourself keeping those profits for yourself while never
even thinking of buying there before this to try and keep the industry and jobs
alive. How dare you…
7:[ I am not sports fan, I hate the Blackhawks. (Change the Logo!) But
hearing that an ordinary schlub of an accountant came off the bench as a
replacement goalie for the “Hawks” and out-performed their contact-clad players
is a testament to how shitty a job those guys were doing in the first place. I
get the underdog angle and I am genuinely glad for the fellow. But make no
mistake; their previous goalies were horrible if they could not stop seven
straight goal attempts. Or maybe he just has not played an entire game and his
performance would have slacked off by the end. Weird how we grapple on to such
things while the earth keeps turning….
That
is it for this month.
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.”
2018
Ernest M Whiteman III
