Talking about real crises reminded me of a movie I saw when I just entered my teens. It was called “When Worlds Collide.”
Yes, dammit, they DID have movies when I was young. They even had SOUND!
The movie was based on the idea that another world was headed for a collision with earth. That was before we realize that huge things DO collide with earth from space. In fact, the present earth and the moon are the result of a crash of that sort over four billion years ago.
No, dammit, I DON’T remember it.
Anyone on earth was DEAD.
“Nothing concentrates the mind like the realization that one is to be hanged at dawn.” Here again, the bullshit artists would make that movie today a lesson in ideology. They would have had a healthy multiracial group on the single spaceship that sent the only survivors out into space. Whites would tearfully yield their space to Africans.
Now let’s imagine what would happen if a meteor a hundred miles across were REALLY headed for earth. Each place on that spaceship is a matter of life and death. Can you imagine ANYBODY paying the slightest attention to the bullshit artists who would script the MOVIE about it?
In fact, this has a practical value. You can tell whether a crisis is real by the proportion of Politically Correct people who are taken seriously when they discuss it.
#1 by Pain on 01/18/2007 - 3:32 am
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“Nothing concentrates the mind like the realization that one is to be hanged at dawn.”
I try to keep that in mind.
#2 by Alan on 01/20/2007 - 11:57 pm
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A week after New Orleans was flooded some idiot mentioned racism and Jessy and Sharpton came out of the wood work. The went back into hiding in short order, americans had seen enough boats filled with blacks being led to shore by whites, dumb robots who if lucky could hang on to the outside of that space ship, lol.