SORTING IT OUT

 

 

 

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“SMOGGIDY”

 

Break out the pink lemonade; serve up the Krispy Kremes; play soul music; another one of Follywood’s great spokesman for world understanding has spoken. No longer will we be divided says she, the great new guru of in depth prognostications, Sharon Stone. She said, "We are just that breath away from a peaceful co-existence, …."  Only a breath away says she. Is that a long breath, a short breath, or hold your breath? 

When did the empty heads of Hollywood become giants of intellectual pursuits on the world stage? Michael Moore, Barbara Streisand, George Clooney et al are trying to be in depth with their wonderful pronouncements about world peace.  It all began when William, the jester of the Hillary court, began to schmooze with the stars in crystal ball gazing. Ever since then, the poobahs of the celluloid have tried to drag their fantasy into reality by having a great inability to recognize that fantasy and reality don’t mix. Fantasy will never become reality except in some weird world like the Twilight Zone of Rod Serling fame.

Peaceful co-existence sounds nice. Chamberlain tried it with Hitler. Other people and nations tried it with Hitler. Peaceful co-existence never works. Just ask the people of Israel who have had years of fighting the Palestinians. The man in Afghanistan who converted to Christianity from being a Muslim was on trial and faced death for doing so. Does Sharon Stone really believe the hot air of her breath she is spewing?

Peaceful co-existence can only occur when two people agree to leave each other alone and not say or do on purpose, anything to irritate and offend the other one who holds divergent beliefs, which covers about 99 and 44 1/100 percent of the world. In the main, divergent beliefs co-exist when one party doesn’t try to force his or her beliefs on the other. Genteel conversation and debate about issues and beliefs serve to bring understanding, but understanding isn’t what some people want.

In the case of radical religious groups, the only understanding they know is “do it our way or else” and if you don’t agree our actions will be breath taking. Maybe in that sense peaceful co-existence is a breath away. The radicals demand for peaceful co-existence is folly and anyone with any sense understands that truth. It is akin to the bank robber telling the bank president that he can get along with him without any trouble, if he, the president, will just agree to let him and his pals loot the vault anytime they need funds. The only way for peaceful co-existence in the example of divergent beliefs is for the bank to meet the demands of the robber.  

Stone said before her co-existence line: "And it really is just a breath. It's just an agreement that's just a breath. We are not far apart. We can choose to have this alternative kind of growth that is a collective nuance of understanding. What in the world did she say? A nuance of understanding? Whatever that is supposed to mean, please tell us. Apparently she has been listening to the baloney that John Kerry emits from time to time. He is the great expert on nuance since he has been for things he was against, due to the conditions that made him think he should support it before he realized it wouldn’t help him politically to be for it and now he is against it even though he was for it when he thought it would ... oh forget it. Nuance isn’t easily understood by us mere mortals of common sense.

Stone reminds me of the man who turned off the beaten path into fantasy in a Twilight Zone story. When he tried to escape, an invisible and impenetrable wall blocked his path back to reality. He remained forever locked in the fantasy of Twilight Zone. Reality was but a distant image floating past his mind.

In Sorting It Out, it appears that Stone and the rest of Follywood have created their own impenetrable wall and can’t see reality. Or maybe they never knew it in the first place with all the nuance of smoggidy understanding smogging their minds.

© 01-22-2010 DEC

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