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In Reply to: Re: Private Ryan: the sick joke. The new low for the US movie industry (yes, industry...) posted by DaveH on July 12, 1999 at 10:53:15:
that some day, people will learn the hard work of thinking for themselves, and acting in their own selfish interests--like voting responsibly, participating in local goverment, and seeing that the "enemy" gets a fair deal (think globally, act locally). It's the economic/power-hording interests that stir-up the war hate. Those sacrifices weren't made on our behalf- they were made for Standard Oil, International Banking, Guns-R-US, etal. I'd be willing to give my life for my fellow man--by not fighting. I hope the kind of thinking that makes nobel sacrifices out of the horrors that men did to one another dies out, but Spielberg keeps it going, and going, and going... They won't talk about it because they know to let it die. What a price to pay for enlightenment. Spielburg is making money off the war and keeping alive the idea that it's about "Ideals".I'd like to see him make a documentary about the Iraqui peasants standing in the trenches with their empty hands raised high over their heads, Allah Akbar, as the M1 tanks with lights so bright retinas were instantly seared, pushed 20-foot berms of choking sand--a wave moving 30-miles and hour on both sides of the trenches nobody could escape from, burying alive tens of thousands of startled men and boys who thought they were saved from the Republican Guard's minefields all around them. I'd like to see him do the special effects of a B-52 saturation bombing from 40,000 feet, so high the starving people below never heard them, never saw them, never knew how close the American Death Machine was, how long the reach, how terrible the justice, the percussion wave so powerful that bodies are split in half even thousands of yards away, and those further out have their eyeballs blown right out of their heads and their brains pushing through their eardurms, still alive, still conscious, dying slowly for a man they hate more that we do, forced away from their homes and families at gunpoint. I'd like to see him show the faces of the A-10 pilots who caught the fleeing men running for their lives out into the desert night, caught them in their night vision goggles and vaoprized them with the depleated uranium anti-tank shells. God fearing men, one and all. They're defending George Bush's way of life. A thousand points of light, piercing bodies all through the night.
We can defeat our enemies by building Kmarts on every corner in every town and village. Selling them Coke and Burgers and leaf-blowers. That's why they hate us. They hate our Baywatch, they hate our Beanie Babies, they hate our Christmas. Hollywood and television is everything they hate about us. "We have met the enemy, and he is us."
I am not comforted by this thought:
That war is Catch 22.
(hey DaveH, I hope you forgive my ranting--I can't help it sometimes)
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Follow Ups
- I am comforted by that thought. - petew 18:35:37 07/16/99 (3)
- Which "war" are we discussing? - DaveH 15:49:31 07/18/99 (2)
- Yes, indeed... - Victor Khomenko 05:46:02 07/19/99 (1)
- I thought that was "Wag the Dog" (nt) - DaveH 16:05:10 07/19/99 (0)
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