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This is no fantasy....
Jul. 3rd, 2006 06:22 pm"Jor-El: A chance for survival, nonetheless... as opposed to us, if we ignore these facts. It's SUICIDE! No, it's worse. It's GENOCIDE!
First Elder: Be warned, Jor-El. The Council has already evaluated this outlandish theory of yours.
Jor-El: My friends, you know me to be neither rash nor impulsive. I'm not given to wild, unsupported statements."
(See, Bryan Singer and his crew aren't the only ones who can shamelessly quote from Superman: The Movie.)
I saw An Inconvenient Truth yesterday. If Al Gore had been that persuasive and charismatic in 2000, then the 21st century would have been so, so much better. Sadly, that does remain a fantasy, the product of carel... I'm doing that quoting thing again, aren't I?
Anyway, today, as I was reading a collection of 1940s Superman newspaper strips, I wondered how Krypton's destruction would be portrayed if it were written for the first time today. Would the entire Science Council have been opposed to Jor-El? I don't think so. Now, I think the whole Council would back Jor-El. Rather it would be wealthy corporations, gladhanding politicians and compliant journalists more interested in writing press releases than taking a stand who would oppose Jor-El. They'd create a phony Science Council to spread their "everything is going to be all right" doctrine. All because it's better to get rich than prevent Krypton's destruction.
Not that our planet is literally going to explode. (Although if it does, I'd ask any kindly rocket scientists to send me towards a planet with a more intense sun and weaker gravity than Earth. A planet that is populated by a great people who only lack the light to... man, this obsessive Superman quoting is habit-forming.)
It's bad enough that Paul Martin lacked the strength to deliver on his promises to help this planet. Now Harper is making us the global warming laughing stock. Once Canada took a stand ... now we're moral cowards. Made in Canada solution? Funny. The place I always associate with appeasement is Munich. I'd rather not have Canada's name become synonymous with dangerous political expediency.
Oh, and Harper's same-sex marriage legislation. He says that he doesn't want to block gay people from forming civil unions. Separate but equal ... sounds fair, right? Except when applied to oh... the school systems of Southern states in the 1960s. Bigotry is often more dangerous when it pretends to be "reasonable".
Kind of like the guy at work who once opined that God would strike down all gay men, but then tried to ease my disgust by saying "I hate the sin, not the sinners". I see, so in this genocidal fantasy, the sinners are what? Collateral damage? What a hateful little man he is.
Allen
First Elder: Be warned, Jor-El. The Council has already evaluated this outlandish theory of yours.
Jor-El: My friends, you know me to be neither rash nor impulsive. I'm not given to wild, unsupported statements."
(See, Bryan Singer and his crew aren't the only ones who can shamelessly quote from Superman: The Movie.)
I saw An Inconvenient Truth yesterday. If Al Gore had been that persuasive and charismatic in 2000, then the 21st century would have been so, so much better. Sadly, that does remain a fantasy, the product of carel... I'm doing that quoting thing again, aren't I?
Anyway, today, as I was reading a collection of 1940s Superman newspaper strips, I wondered how Krypton's destruction would be portrayed if it were written for the first time today. Would the entire Science Council have been opposed to Jor-El? I don't think so. Now, I think the whole Council would back Jor-El. Rather it would be wealthy corporations, gladhanding politicians and compliant journalists more interested in writing press releases than taking a stand who would oppose Jor-El. They'd create a phony Science Council to spread their "everything is going to be all right" doctrine. All because it's better to get rich than prevent Krypton's destruction.
Not that our planet is literally going to explode. (Although if it does, I'd ask any kindly rocket scientists to send me towards a planet with a more intense sun and weaker gravity than Earth. A planet that is populated by a great people who only lack the light to... man, this obsessive Superman quoting is habit-forming.)
It's bad enough that Paul Martin lacked the strength to deliver on his promises to help this planet. Now Harper is making us the global warming laughing stock. Once Canada took a stand ... now we're moral cowards. Made in Canada solution? Funny. The place I always associate with appeasement is Munich. I'd rather not have Canada's name become synonymous with dangerous political expediency.
Oh, and Harper's same-sex marriage legislation. He says that he doesn't want to block gay people from forming civil unions. Separate but equal ... sounds fair, right? Except when applied to oh... the school systems of Southern states in the 1960s. Bigotry is often more dangerous when it pretends to be "reasonable".
Kind of like the guy at work who once opined that God would strike down all gay men, but then tried to ease my disgust by saying "I hate the sin, not the sinners". I see, so in this genocidal fantasy, the sinners are what? Collateral damage? What a hateful little man he is.
Allen
