TO BEGIN WITH – I AM GIVING YOU A CAVEAT – I WAS OR AM BLESSED (OR CURSED) WITH A DISCURSIVE INTELLECT, CONSEQUENTLY, THE ÒCHILD NARRATORÓ JUMPS FROM SUBJECT TO SUBJECT – ALL TOO OFTEN IN THE ABSENCE OF AN APPROPRIATE TRANSITION. BE KIND AND PATIENT – HEÕS ONLY A KID!
CHILD NARRATOR:
MY STARTING POINT INVOLVES CHRISTIANITY; SIMPLY STATED JEFFREY DARMER (THE CANNIBAL AND MASS MURDERER) ACCEPTED CHRIST BEFORE HE WAS MURDERED – ACCORDING TO CHRISTIAN PRECEPTS – DARMER WILL GO TO HEAVEN. ON THE OTHER HAND – PAUL NEWMAN – WHO MIGHT VERY WELL HAVE BEEN AN ATHEIST OR AGNOSTIC, A MUSLIM OR A JEW – YET WHO WAS VERY GENEROUS (COMPASSIONATE AND PHILANTHROPIC) WILL ALLEGEDLY GO TO HELL. SURELY, GOD IS IMBUED WITH A SUPERIOR SENSE OF FAIRNESS.
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I SUGGEST FREE EDUCATION OVER THE INTERNET FOR EVERYONE. THERE WILL BE NO HOUSING, NO OVERHEAD, CLASSROOMS OR EVEN BOOKS.
(YES, I”M JUMPING AROUND) ON THE ISSUE OF THE MENTALLY ILL – NEARLY EVERYONE OF THEM (EXCLUDING THE MOST SEVERE DYSFUNCTIONAL CASES) ARE PERFECTLY CAPABLE OF WORKING TWENTY HOURS PER WEEK – DOING EVERYTHING FROM JANITORIAL WORK, WASHING DISHES, WORKING AS A SECURITY GUARD TO PAINTING. THE TRUTH IS THAT LIVING OFF OF DISABILITY HAS MADE THEM COMPLACENT, LAZY AND UNMOTIVATED. THEY EAT, SLEEP, DEFECATE AND ALL TOO OFTEN SMOKE LIKE CHIMNEYS. A LARGE PERCENTAGE OF THEM ARE MORBIDLY OBESE. WORKING PART TIME WOULD HELP THEM TO BIDE TIME CONSTRUCTIVELY. AND IF YOU WANT TO LOWER FUTURE HEALTHCARE COSTS – LESSEN BENEFITS ON THOSE WHO ARE NOT TAKING CARE OF THEMSELVES. REWARD A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE AND MENTALITY.
I WOULD ALSO SUGGEST INCREASING BENEFITS FOR THE ELDERLY WHO ARE WILLING TO WORK PART TIME EDUCATING FORMER GANG MEMBERS, SEX OFFENDERS, FELONS IN GENERAL AND THE MENTALLY ILL.
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NOW WHAT? I WOULD LOVE TO GO AFTER DIRTY CAPITALISTÕS.
(AS COMPARED TO SYMBIOTIC CAPITALISTÕS – WHO OFFER EQUITABLE BENEFITS) RATHER THAN PLACING THEM IN PRISON – I CAN SEE THEM ATTIRED IN SUIT AND TIE – SPORTING GUCCI SHOES, ROLEX WATCHES AND EXPENSIVE CLOTHING AND JEWELRY EVEN AS THEY WIELD A PICK OR SHOVEL – SWEATING PROFUSELY IN THE HOT AFTERNOON SUN.
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NOW LET’S GET REALLY CONTROVERSIAL. THE TRUTH IN THE ABSENCE OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS IS THAT IF YOU WANT TO TAKE AN HONEST GLIMPSE AT THE TRUE INHERENT NATURE OF PARTICULAR ETHNIC GROUPS – SIMPLY TAKE A LONG HARD LOOK AT THEIR COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN.
ANOTHER IDEA I HAVE IS TO CREATE A VOLUNTEER PROGRAM MERGING THE STRUCTURE AND MENTALITY OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH PROGRAM – WITH THE GOAL OF A DAYCARE CENTER – THAT IS COMPRISED OF MOMÕS AS WELL AS THE MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY CAPABLE ELDERLY, THE HIGH FUNCTIONING MENTAL PATIENT AND ESPECIALLY THE FORMER (NOW PAROLED) CONVICTED (NONVIOLENT) FELON. THE GOAL OF WHICH IS A ÒTIME OUTÓ – WHEN YOUR RAMBUNCTIOUS TODDLER IS CAUSING YOU TO CONTEMPLATE HIS OR HER MURDER. THIS TYPE OF VOLUNTEER PROGRAM WOULD PERMIT BUSY MOM’S (OR DAD’S) TO SHOP, TAKE A NAP, READ, WATCH TELEVISION – TO IN ESSENCE TO RECUPERATE; TO REGAIN THEIR SANITY AND TO MOLLIFY THOSE HOMICIDAL THOUGHTS.
CHILD NARRATOR:
NOW WHAT? THE EXPLOSIVE MIX OF GANGS, DRUGS, POVERTY, INADEQUATE SYSTEMS OF EDUCATION, HOPELESSNESS AND CIVIL WARFARE IN BARRIO’S AND SLUM’S IS LEADING TO THE GENOCIDE AND THE DESTRUCTION OF THE MINORITY. IS THIS AD HOC IN NATURE OR SIMPLY A COINCIDENTAL?
REGARDING MANY OF THE HOMELESS…
HOMELESS VETERANS SUFFERING FROM POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER NEED, THERAPY, TRAINING AND EDUCATION!!! WE OWE IT TO THEM.
NOW REFLECTING THE FORMAT OF A SCREENPLAY – WE ALTERNATE SCENES OF VIOLENCE AND BRUTALITY ON TELEVISION.
WE ALTERNATE THIS TIME WITH A FIVE YEAR-OLD WATCHING THESE VIOLENT IMAGES ON TELEVISION – IN BETWEEN BITES OF HIS CAPTAIN CRUNCH CEREAL.
FROM THE VIOLENT IMAGES ON TELEVISION BACK TO THE CHILD OCCUPIED BY HIS CEREAL.
LATER:
BATTLEFIELD – DAY
THE CHILD IS NOW EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD AND IS FIRING HIS AUTOMATIC WEAPON AT AN UNSEEN ADVERSARY. SURROUNDING HIM ON THE BATTLEFIELD ARE BODY PARTS AS WELL AS THE SCREAMING WOUNDED.
WE RETURN TO THE VIOLENT SCENES ON TELEVISION AND BACK AGAIN TO THE FIVE YEAR-OLD CHILD. WE ALTERNATE SHOTS OF THE VIOLENCE, THE FIVE YEAR-OLD CHILD; THE EIGHTEEN YEAR-OLD CHILD FIGHTING ON THE BATTLEFIELD.
NOW WE SEE IMAGES THAT PROMOTE MATERIALISM. WE SEE IMAGES OF ÒSTUFFÓ – MERCEDES BENZ, GUCCI SHOES AND ROLEX WATCHES.
AN IMPOVERISHED CHILD LIVING IN A PIGSTY SITS BEFORE THE TELEVISION WATCHING THE IMAGES OF OPULENCE.
A DRUG DEALER DEALS.
A PIMP TAKES MONEY FROM A JOHN.
WE ENTER A PRISON AND WE SEE THE IMPOVERISHED CHILD BEHIND BARS.
WE RETURN TO THE SCENES OF OPULENCE.
AND BACK AGAIN TO THE CHILD WHO IS INCARCERATED.
CHILD NARRATOR:
NOW WE’RE GETTING PITHY. JUST HOW DID WE GO FROM A ONE CELLED ANIMAL WHO REPRODUCED THROUGH MITOSIS – WHO LACKED THE CAPACITY TO SEE, TO HEAR, TO TASTE, TO SMELL – TO A SOPHISTICATED BEING REPLETE WITH ALL FIVE SENSES, THE ABILITY TO TO HATE, TO LOVE, TO INVENT, TO CONSTRUCT, TO CREATE; IMBUED WITH VOCAL CORDS AND A COMPLEX BRAIN TO COMMUNICATE, AN INTRICATE IMMUNE SYSTEM, REPRODUCTION BETWEEN MALE AND FEMALE, A NINE MONTH GESTATION PERIOD AND AN INSTINCT TO SURVIVE, TO REPRODUCE, TO NURTURE THEIR YOUNG, ON AND ON AND ON…
THE PROBLEM AS I SEE IT ISN’T THE CONCEPT OF INTELLIGENT DESIGN – IT’S THE CREATION OF A GOD THAT IS OMNIPOTENT, OMNISCIENT, UBIQUITOUS AND ETERNAL. THE DILEMMA IS WITH RELIGIOUS DOCTRINE – WITH A FUNDAMENTALIST MENTALITY THAT CREATES DISCIPLES WHO BELIEVE THAT THEY HAVE ALL OF THE ANSWERS – THAT THEY ARE STUDENTS OF A TENET THAT IS THE UNERRING INFALLIBLE WORD OF GOD. THE PREDICAMENT IS WITHIN THE DEEPLY ROOTED BELIEF THAT HELL (OR NONEXISTENCE) IS THE INEVITABLE DESTINATION OF THE “UNBELIEVER”. WHICH SENTENCES THOSE WITH DISPARATE VIEWS TO PERDITION. ALL IRONICALLY CARRIED-OUT BY A LOVING, FORGIVING GOD. THIS IS ALL DOWNRIGHT SILLY. AND ALL IT DOES IS TO SEPARATE PEOPLE FROM GOD.
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WHAT I WANT TO KNOW IS: WHEN DID PEOPLE BEGIN TO CREATE, TO INVENT, TO ASK QUESTIONS – TO ATTEMPT TO AT LEAST SUPERFICIALLY UNDERSTAND THEIR ENVIRONMENT??? THE PROBLEM AS I SEE IT WAS A FOCUS UPON FUNDAMENTAL SURVIVAL – WHICH I BELIEVE INCLUDES INTERTRIBAL WARFARE. DID PEOPLE EARLY-ON IN OUR PROGRESSION EVEN BOTHER TO INQUIRE WHILE THEY LIVED A LIFE OF RELATIVE CONVENIENCE AND TRANQUILITY? NECESSITY IS INDEED THE MOTHER OF INVENTION.
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WITH THE ADVENT OF THE SUPER COMPUTER AND THE IDEALISTIC COALESCENCE OF ALL ASSETS NECESSARY TO RUN A RESEARCH FACILITY – WHAT COULD WE ACCOMPLISH WITHIN THE NEXT CENTURY??? (PARTICULARLY IF WE FOCUSED UPON SOLUTIONS AND NOT ON GLEANING PROFITS!!!)
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NEXT ON MY MIND INVOLVES THE TECHNOLOGICAL, SOCIAL AND THE MEDICINAL PROGRESSION OF ADAM AND EVE – SPECIFICALLY, HOW DID SO MANY CULTURES DE-EVOLVE??? HOW DO WE EXPLAIN THE DE-EVOLUTION OF THE ABORIGINE??? WHY DIDNÕT THE ABORIGINE PROGRESS? WERE THEY SIMPLY COMPLACENT? AGAIN, WERE THEY FOCUSED UPON FUNDAMENTAL SURVIVAL AND WARFARE?
SO? HOW AND WHY DID EARLY INVENTORS BEGIN TO SEEK SOLUTIONS? WHEN DID PRIMITIVE BUT INTELLIGENT ÒTHINKERSÓ BEGIN TO ASK QUESTIONS? AND AS WITH CONTEMPORARY PEOPLE – DID THE ABORIGINE SPEND THE MAJORITY OF THEIR ASSETS ON WARFARE???
IF IT WERE NOT FOR OUR ARROGANT IMPERIALISTIC AGGRESSION WOULD THE AMERICAN INDIAN STILL BE LIVING IN TEE PEES??? OR WOULD THEY IF LEFT ALONE HAVE CREATED THE LOG CABIN, THE HORSE AND BUGGY, THE GATLING GUN AND EVENTUALLY THE STEALTH FIGHTER??? IF NOT, WHY NOT? SO WOULD SOCIAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL CONTENTMENT KEEP THEM IN A STATE OF TECHNOLOGICAL STAGNATION? SHOULD THIS SUPPOSITION INCLUDE IMPOVERISHED THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES WHO DO NOT HAVE THE RESOURCES AND TIME TO INVEST IN ALL FIELDS OR DISCIPLINES OF RESEARCH?
ONE THING IS FOR CERTAIN – LIVING IN A PRIMITIVE STATIC TECHNOLOGICAL STATE WOULD NOT CREATE THE CONDITIONS IN WHICH AN ECOSYSTEM AND OR HABITAT IS IRREVOCABLY DAMAGED. THEY ARE NOT LIVING DAY TO DAY WITH THE LOOMING THREAT OF A NUCLEAR CALAMITY. SO PERHAPS WE CAN LEARN SOMETHING FROM THE SIMPLICITY, MINDSET AND MENTALITY OF THEIR LIVES???
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TO ME – INSTINCT IS VERY MUCH LIKE HARDWARE THAT IS ENDOWED WITH SOPHISTICATED SOFTWARE. WE CAN READILY SEE JUST HOW COMPLEX AND ESSENTIAL INSTINCT IS FOR ALL FORMS OF FAUNA. BUT WHO MIGHT INQUIRE IMBUED THE ANIMAL KINGDOM WITH SUCH AN INEFFABLE MANIFESTATION OF SUCH QUINTESSENTIAL BEHAVIOR? WHO IS THE DESIGNER AND OR PROGRAMMER?
COULD ANYONE PLEASE TELL ME HOW MANY HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS ARE SQUANDERED ANNUALLY ON :
GAMBLING?
LUXURY ITEMS?
ALCOHOL, DRUGS AND TOBACCO?
ON ENTERTAINMENT IN GENERAL?
AND YES, ON PORN?
HOW MANY WOMEN SPEND HUNDREDS – PERHAPS THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS ANNUALLY ON MAINTAINING THEIR HAIR AND NAILS???
YES, SHE DIED OF BREAST CANCER FOLLOWING FIVE DECADES OF LIFE AND THROUGHOUT A LIFETIME FILLED WITH VANITY AND SELFISHNESS SHE SPENT SIXTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ON HER FINGER NAILS AND HAIR AND NEVER ONCE DID SHE CONTRIBUTE EVEN A CENT TO BE DIRECTED TOWARDS BREAST CANCER RESEARCH.
HE DIED OF COLON CANCER DURING HIS FOUR DECADES ON THIS PLANET – HE SPENT THIRTY-SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS ON BEER AND TOBACCO – SATISFYING HIS VICES – HIS ADDICTIONS – AND NEVER ONCE DONATED ANYTHING TOWARDS CANCER RESEARCH.
WHAT HAS THE CAUCASIAN ANGLO- SAXON MALE AND HIS TESTOSTERONE- MACHISMO-BASED EGO DONE FOR MANKIND OVER THE EONS? HE HAS SUPPLANTED INTELLECTUAL PURSUITS, INVENTIVENESS AND CREATIVITY WITH WARFARE. HE HAS REPRESSED AND EXPLOITED WOMEN, CHILDREN AND MINORITIES – AS WELL AS IMPOVERISHED IMMIGRANTS. HE HAS MISDIRECTED LIMITED TAX REVENUES TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT AND CONSTRUCTION OF WEAPONRY AND NOT TOWARDS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING TO TACKLE DISEASE, TO REPAIR OR REPLACE AGING INFRASTRUCTURE, TO IMPROVE THE STANDARD OF LIVING FOR THE MASSES. HE HAS CREATED AND MAINTAINED “PARASITIC CAPITALISM”. “HE” IS PRIMARILY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE (NEAR) DESTRUCTION OF OF OUR FRAGILE ENVIRONMENT AND ECOSYSTEM. “HE” HAS CONSTRUCTED AND MAINTAINED A PRISON SYSTEM THAT HOUSES THE UNEDUCATED, UNSKILLED, THE MENTALLY ILL AND THE ALCOHOL AND DRUG ADDICTED. “HE” HAS PLACED NATIONAL PRIDE AND ARROGANCE BEFORE NATIONAL SECURITY. TESTOSTERONE , MACHISMO AND NATIONAL PRIDE AND ARROGANCE PROPELLED US INTO THE COLD WAR WITH THE FORMER SOVIET UNION. AND MAKE NO MISTAKE – BOTH SIDES WERE GUILTY OF BEING POSSESSED WITH THIS MENTALITY AND WHILE BEING PLAGUED BY PARANOIA. ALL OF WHICH AMOUNTED TO LITTLE MORE THAN BRINKMANSHIP. WE DID NOT SPEAK. WE DID NOT EVEN BOTHER TO SEEK SOME SORT OF SOLUTION – OF COMPROMISE. WE SIMPLY CONSTRUCTED MORE AND MORE INTERCONTINENTAL NUCLEAR MISSILES. EACH OF US SQUANDERED HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS BUILDING BOMBS AND NOT DIRECTING PRECIOUS TAX REVENUES TOWARDS EDUCATION SOCIAL SECURITY, HEALTHCARE, THE REPAIR AND OR REPLACEMENT OF AGING INFRASTRUCTURE AND THE CREATION OF GOOD WELL PAYING EMPLOYMENT.
YET EVEN FOLLOWING THE DISSOLUTION OF THE SOVIET UNION AND RUSSIA’S EMBRACE OF A CAPITALISTIC DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC WE STILL HARBOR ILL-WILL AND SUSPICION TOWARDS ONE ANOTHER. ALL WE NEED DO IS TO SPEAK, TO SHAKE HANDS, TO LAUGH TOGETHER AND TO INDULGE IN ONE ANOTHERÕS MUSIC, ART, LITERATURE, ARCHITECTURE, VICTUALS AND IN GENERAL TO EXPERIENCE ONE ANOTHERÕS CULTURE. WE NEED TO DROP OUR GUARD TO LEARN THAT MAKING COMPROMISES OR CONCESSIONS IS A LARGE TACTICAL ASPECT OF POLITICAL AND DIPLOMATIC PROTOCOL. IN ESSENCE WE (THE U.S. AND RUSSIA) MUST TRUST ONE ANOTHER. WE MUST BECOME STAUNCH TRADE PARTNERS AND MILITARY ALLIES. WE HAVE NO ALTERNATIVE BUT TO BECOME FRIENDS.
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SO WHY ARE WOMEN STILL CONSIDERED THE WEAKER SEX? THEY LIVE LONGER. THEY COMBAT THE MAJORITY OF DISEASES BETTER. AND THEY CAN TURN OUT A COPY WITH MERELY A CONTRIBUTION OF SPERM. AND THEY HAVE A POWER OVER US THAT IS PRACTICALLY PRETERNATURAL. AS FOR MALES – IT TOOK EON’S FOR VIOLENT, DOMINANT MALES TO BE REPLACED IN POSITIONS OF AUTHORITY BY THOSE MALES WHO WERE DRIVEN BY INTELLECTUAL PURSUITS. HOWEVER THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE – IT’S TECHNOLOGICAL, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PROGRESSION WAS KEPT AT BAY FOR TEN’S OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS.
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THUS FAR WE HAVE BEEN ABLE (BY THE GRACE OF GOD) TO DODGE THE BULLET. YET WE STILL ARE PLAGUED BY MANKIND’S INHERENT BELLIGERENT PROPENSITIES. AND RELIGION ONCE AGAIN HAS BEEN TRANSFORMED INTO AN IDEOLOGICAL OR THEOLOGICAL OBSTACLE OR IMPEDIMENT THAT SEPARATES US – RATHER HELPING TO CREATE A SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND AN ECONOMIC COALESCENCE. THE MALE EGO AND HIS BOUT WITH TESTOSTERONE AS WELL AS HIS OBSESSION WITH PATRIOTISM (NATIONAL PRIDE OR FERVOR) IS STILL AN ENCUMBRANCE TO GLOBAL PEACE.
NEXT ON MY CROWDED PLATE IS THE ISSUE OF LONGEVITY. FROM WHAT LITTLE I UNDERSTAND ABOUT HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY – I BELIEVE THAT WITHIN A LIFETIME ALL OLD CELLS WITHIN THE HUMAN BODY ARE REPLACED BY NEW CELLS. WHAT IS THE MECHANISM THAT IS IN PLACE THAT REGULATES OR CONTROLS CELL REPLACEMENT? AND ARE WE AT LEAST ATTEMPTING TO STUDY THE DNA IN THOSE WHO ARE BLESSED WITH EXTRAORDINARY LONGEVITY?
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SO – IN THE SPAN OF SEVERAL THOUSAND YEARS – ASSUMING THAT THE BIBLE IS THE UNERRING WORD OF GOD – COULD WE NOW AS THE HUMAN RACE EXCEED SIX BILLION PEOPLE? OVER SIX BILLION PEOPLE COMPRISED OF DOZEN’S OF RACES, RELIGIONS CULTURES, SYSTEMS OF GOVERNMENT, DISPARATE CALENDARS – ALL OF WHOM SPAN OR OCCUPY THE ENTIRE GEOGRAPHIC LOCATIONS AROUND THE GLOBE. A POPULATION OF OVER SIX BILLION PEOPLE WHICH IS OVERSHADOWED BY DEADLY DISEASES, HIGH RATES OF INFANT MORTALITY, NATURAL AND MANMADE DISASTERS, WARFARE, STARVATION AND GENOCIDE !
IF WE DID IN DEED BEGIN AT A SINGLE LOCATION – FROM ADAM AND EVE – HOW CAN WE EXPLAIN SUCH DIVERSITY; BLACK TO YELLOW, VERY TALL TO VERY SHORT, BLONDE-HAIRED BLUE-EYED TO DARK-SKINNED BLACK-EYED; POLYGAMY TO MONOGAMY – POLYTHEISM TO MONOTHEISM WHICH INCLUDES A DIVERSITY OF CONFLICTIVE OR CONTRADICTORY RELIGIONS? ALL OF WHICH STARTS AT A SINGLE POINT – WITH TWO INDIVIDUALS.
IF EVOLUTION ISN’T A FACT – THEN HOW ARE WE CONTINUALLY CONTENDING WITH AN ECLECTIC PROTEAN MIX OF MUTATING BACTERIA AND VIRUSES? (MINISCULE MENACES THAT IN ESSENCE DESTROY IT’S HOST – THEREBY COMMITTING SUICIDE).
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IF THE EARTH IS MERELY SEVERAL THOUSAND YEARS OLD – THEN HOW DO WE EXPLAIN PETROLEUM (COMPRISED OF ORGANIC MATERIAL), DIAMONDS AND OTHER GEMS – ALL OF WHICH TAKES MILLIONS OF YEARS OF INCUBATION BEFORE THEY REACH A POINT OF VIABILITY? HOW DO WE EXPLAIN THE IRREFUTABLE PRESENCE OF THE DINOSAUR? WERE THEY TOO ON THE ARK? CAN WE EXPLAIN AWAY THE ICE AGE AND IT’S REMNANT OR IMPRINT LEFT BEHIND ON THE LANDSCAPE?
JOURNALIST
SO HOW LONG WERE YOU IN ‘NAM?
VET
TWO YEARS.
JOURNALIST
AND YOUR JOB?
VET
INTERROGATION.
JOURNALIST
THAT COULDN’T HAVE BEEN EASY. (PAUSE) YOU HAD RULES TO GO BY.
VET DIDN’T RESPOND.
JOURNALIST
SO HOW DID YOU GET THE OTHER SIDE TO BETRAY HIS PEOPLE?
VET SIMPLY STARRED AHEAD VACUOUSLY.
JOURNALIST
AND THE GENEVA CONVENTION? (LONG PAUSE) I GUESS WHAT I’M GETTING AT IS DID YOU TORTURE YOUR PRISONERS?
VET
I DID WHAT I HAD TO DO. (PAUSE) ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED SAVED AMERICAN LIVES.
LONG PAUSE.
JOURNALIST
THERE WERE RULES TO ABIDE BY.
VET
THERE WERE NO RULES.
JOURNALIST
YOU TORTURED THE ENEMY?
` VET
AND THEY TORTURED OURS.
(VERY LONG PAUSE)
VET
WE TOOK TWO OR THREE OF THE ENEMY UP IN A HELICOPTER.
(LONG PAUSE)
VET
THEIR HANDS AND FEET WERE BOUND.
JOURNALIST
WHY A HELICOPTER? (PAUSE) WHAT COULD TAKING THEM UP IN A HELICOPTER ACCOMPLISH?
VET
LETÕS JUST SAY THAT IT GOT THE JOB DONE.
JOURNALIST
HOW? HOW DID YOU MAKE THEM TALK?
VET LIT AND DREW ON A CIGARETTE.
VET
AFTER WE PUSHED ONE OR TWO OF THEM OUT – THOSE WHO REMAINED BEHIND GAVE US ALL OF THE INFORMATION WE NEEDED.
(LONG PAUSE)
VET
I’M NO MURDERER. I WAS A SOLDIER DOING HIS JOB.
JOURNALIST
AND THOSE WHO WERE LEFT BEHIND?
VET
WE COULDN’T LEAVE ANY WITNESSES.
JOURNALIST
YOU PUSHED THEM OUT AS WELL.
VET NODDED IMPERCEPTIBLY.
VET
I KILLED THE ENEMY. I DID MY JOB AND I SAVED AMERICAN LIVES.
JOURNALIST
THEIR HANDS AND FEET WERE BOUND. THEY WERE HELPLESS.
(LONG PAUSE)
JOURNALIST
DID YOU EVER ENGAGE IN COMBAT? (PAUSE) DID YOU EVER CONFRONT THE ENEMY ON EQUAL TERMS? MAN TO MAN – ON A BATTLEFIELD – WHERE YOU WERE ON EQUAL FOOTING? NO TIED HANDS AND FEET; A CONFRONTATION THAT WAS FAIR?
(LONG PAUSE)
JOURNALIST
DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT’S LIKE TO HAVE YOUR LIFE IN DANGER?
(LONG PAUSE)
VET
YOU THINK I’M A COWARD? (LONG PAUSE) I DID WHAT I HAD TO DO FOR MY COUNTRY. AND I WOULD GLADLY DO IT AGAIN. I SAVED HUNDREDS OF AMERICAN LIVES. THAT MAKES ME A HERO. AND DON’T BE A FOOL. DON’T YOU BELIEVE THAT THE OTHER SIDE TORTURED AND KILLED AMERICAN PRISONERS OF WAR? THEY WERE MY BROTHERS; SOME WERE MY FRIENDS. AND MANY OF THEM WERE TORTURED FOR YEARS. THOSE I INTERROGATED DIDN’T SUFFER FOR LONG. IT WAS OVER AND DONE WITH WITHIN MINUTES. BOTH SIDES ENGAGED IN BRUTALITY. BOTH SIDES IGNORED THE GENEVA CONVENTION. I’M NO MONSTER. I DID MY JOB AS A PATRIOT. I DID MY JOB AS A SOLDIER. I DID MY JOB AS AN AMERICAN. WHAT I DID I DID FOR YOU. I DID IT FOR THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE. AND WHAT I DID IS BETWEEN BOTH ME AND MY GOD. HE’LL SEE MY JOB THROUGH MY EYES – WITH EMPATHY AND OBJECTIVITY. NO MATTER WHAT YOU OR ANYONE ELSE THINKS OF ME – I’LL SLEEP WITH A CLEAR CONSCIENCE – BECAUSE AMERICANS CAME HOME FROM THE WAR DUE TO MY EFFORTS. CHILDREN HAVE THEIR DAD’S BACK. WIVES HAVE THEIR HUSBANDS. PARENTS SEE THEIR SONS. AND AMERICAN CITIZENS ENJOY THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE.
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HOW MANY LIVES HAVE BEEN LOST IN WARFARE THROUGHOUT HISTORY??? HOW MUCH MONEY HAS BEEN SQUANDERED??? HOW MUCH OF OUR LIMITED TAX REVENUES HAVE BEEN WASTED ON THE CONSTRUCTION AND DEPLOYMENT OF INTERCONTINENTAL NUCLEAR MISSILES – WITH THE CLEAR-CUT UNDERSTANDING THAT ONCE AMERICA HAD IN IT’S NUCLEAR ARSENAL ENOUGH HYDROGEN BOMBS TO DESTROY THE ENTIRE PLANET – WHILE LEAVING BEHIND ENOUGH RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT TO SIGNIFICANTLY HAMPER OR OBSTRUCT ANY FUTURE RECOVERY OR RECUPERATION OF ANY AND ALL FORMS OF FAUNA THAT MAY HAVE SURVIVED THE INITIAL BLASTS – THAT IT WAS TIME TO RECOGNIZE THE FACT THAT YOU NEED ONLY DESTROY THE PLANET ONCE. ANY AND ALL NUCLEAR WEAPONRY STOCKPILED AFTER THAT SOMBER DISHEARTENING REALIZATION WAS SIMPLY AN ACT OF IRRATIONALITY; OF FISCAL IRRESPONSIBILITY AND YES, EVEN PERHAPS PARANOIA- BASED INSANITY. SO RATHER THAN DEHUMANIZING AND VILIFYING ONE ANOTHER – IT WAS TIME TO SIT DOWN AND AT LEAST ATTEMPT TO REASON WITH ONE ANOTHER.
NUCLEAR WEAPONRY ASIDE – MAINTAINING MILITARY BASES AROUND THE GLOBE DID LITTLE OR NOTHING TO CONFRONT MEGALOMANIACAL DESPOTS FROM IMPLEMENTING GENOCIDE WITHIN THEIR SOVEREIGN BORDERS; IT DID NOTHING TO COUNTER MASS STARVATION’S, CIVIL WARFARE, GLOBAL POVERTY OR THE ACQUISITION OR DEVELOPMENT OF NUCLEAR WEAPONRY AMONG WARRING THIRD WORLD NATIONS. MILITARY FORCES THAT TODAY HAVE FALLEN INTO OBSOLESCENCE DUE TO WELL DISPERSED ADVERSARIES THAT QUITE SIMPLY DO NOT CONFRONT US USING WELL EQUIPPED STANDING ARMIES, CONVENTIONAL WEAPONRY OR TACTICS. ADVERSARIES THAT DO NOT ENGAGE US ON OUR OWN TERMS AND WITH THE GENEVA CONVENTION ACTING AS A RESTRAINT. THEY KILL ANYONE OR ANYTHING IN THE NAME OF MARTYRDOM AND WHILE UTILIZING THE ALLEGED PROPHETIC INCULCATION’S OF THEIR GOD AND THE DOCTRINE TO WHICH THEY HAVE A FANATICAL ALLEGIANCE. ALL OF WHICH IS OVERSHADOWED BY IDEOLOGICAL OPPONENTS WHO HAVE IN THEIR SOPHISTICATED ARSENAL – ANTI SATELLITE MISSILES THAT QUITE SIMPLY PUSH AMERICAÕ THE SOLE REMAINING SUPERPOWER INTO THE DARK AGES WITH THE DISCONCERTING REALITY THAT IN THE ABSENCE OF OUR GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEMS (OUR SATELLITES) OUT OF COMMISSION – THAT EVEN THE MOST ADVANCED SHIPS AND SUBMARINES ARE SIMPLY WITHOUT GUIDANCE. WHY ARE WE ENGAGED IN A MILITARISTIC MORASS? QUITE SIMPLY BECAUSE WE WONÕT TALK, COMPROMISE OR PUT OUR NATIONAL FERVOR OR PRIDE (AT LEAST MOMENTARILY) ON THE BACK BURNER.
I’VE SAID IT BEFORE AND I’LL SAY IT AGAIN – WE HAVE SPENT TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS OVER THE PAST DECADES ON WAGING WAR, ON PREPARING FOR WAR – BUT A COMPARATIVELY MINISCULE AMOUNT ON THE PROPHYLACTIC APPROACH. CONSIDERABLY REDUCING THE WORLDÕS STOCKPILE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONRY, STIMULATING OR INVESTING IN THIRD WORLD ECONOMIES (AS AN INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY) , CREATING ORGANIZATIONS SUCH AS “COUN” TO CREATE A SENSE OF WELL BEING, OF SECURITY PARTICULARLY AMONG ÒUNDER DEVELOPED NATIONSÓ; THE SECURITY OF SOVEREIGN NATIONS DESPITE OUR OPPOSITION TO THEIR LEADERSHIP – PERHAPS THEIR DESPOTIC RULE – BUT WITH THE CRITICAL OBSERVATION – THE ESSENTIAL RELEVANCE -THAT THEY AS DICTATORIAL LEADERS ARE ESSENTIALLY BENEVOLENT IN NATURE. WE, AS A POLITICALLY, SOCIALLY AND TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED NATION – MUST EMBRACE ALL NATIONS WHO ARE SIMPLY IN NEED OF WHAT WE ALREADY HAVE AND WHAT WE ARE CURRENTLY STRIVING FOR – A PEOPLE WHO CAN SLEEP WELL AT NIGHT SIMPLY DUE TO A MILITARY FORCE THAT IS WATCHING OVER US; THE CONFIDENCE IN THE MAINTENANCE AND THE SECURITY OF OUR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC WHICH EMBRACES A CAPITALISTIC FREE MARKET ECONOMY (AT LEAST IN PART) AND THE CONSTITUTIONAL ASSURANCE OF FREE SPEECH, EVEN TO INCLUDE THE OF THE CENSURE OR THE CONDEMNATION OF OR BY THE POLEMIC, THE ANARCHIST, ANOMIC OR ARDENT CRITIC; THE GUARANTEE OF OUR FREEDOM TO WORSHIP AS WE PLEASE; THE PERPETUATION AND PROMISE OF SPECIFIC PRIVILEGES WE ALL TOO OFTEN TAKE FOR GRANTED – FROM EDUCATION, TO HEALTHCARE, SOCIAL SECURITY TO ENTITLEMENTS FOR THE DISABLED, POTABLE WATER, SEWAGE TREATMENT FACILITIES, SAFE HOUSING AND AUTOMOBILES, PAVED (POTHOLE-FREE) ROADS, POLICE, FIRE AND OTHER EMERGENCY SERVICES AND THE CONFIDENCE IN KNOWING THAT IF WE WORK HARD AND SMART WE, AS A PEOPLE, CAN LIVE A LIFE SURROUNDED BY, CONVENIENCED BY, CREATURE COMFORTS – FROM GUCCI SHOES AND ROLEX WATCHES TO LUXURY DWELLINGS WITH OPULENT INTERIORS. WE AS A PEOPLE CAN LITERALLY TURN DREAMS INTO REALITY. SUCH IS THE GREATNESS OF OUR COUNTRY.
CHILD NARRATOR
NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION – AT LEAST IT EXPLAINS THE MOTIVATION FOR INVENTIVENESS. BUT IT DOESN’T HELP US TO UNDERSTAND AFFLATUS. AND IT DOESN’T GUARANTEE CHANGE. IF IT AINÕT BROKE DONÕT FIX IT. SO WHY THE HELL MUTATE? WHY DID THE ONE CELL ANIMAL EVOLVE IF IT WAS ALREADY IN A STATIC OR STEADY STATE IN WHICH IT COULD NOT ONLY SURVIVE IT COULD THRIVE? AGAIN, IF SURVIVAL WASNÕT DEPENDENT UPON CHANGE – THEN WHY MUTATE?
SO? WHY DO WE SEEM TO BE AT WAR TIME AND TIME AGAIN? IS IT SOMETHING THAT IS BURIED BENEATH OUR FACADES OF CIVILITY AND OUR SUPPOSED QUEST FOR PEACE AND HARMONY – A STATE OF ACCORD THAT IS CURIOUSLY COALESCED WITH Judeo-Christian ETHICS – THAT GIVE THE IMPRESSION THAT WE ARE AT LEAST ATTEMPTING TO EMULATE CHRISTLIKE BEARING OR DEPORTMENT. SO IS VIOLENCE AN UNAVOIDABLE FIXTURE IN OUR FUTURE? COINCIDINGLY – WHY DO AMERICANÕS HAVE SUCH AN OBSESSION WITH BEING THE SOLE REMAINING SUPER POWER? IS THIS NATIONAL PRIDE CARRIED TO AN EXTREME? WHY DO WE SEEM TO FIND OURSELVES MIRED IN CONFLICTS – KNEE-DEEP IN A MILITARISTIC MORASS AND IN A DIVERSITY OF PLACES AROUND THE GLOBE? CONFLICTS THAT DRAIN US FINANCIALLY – AND THAT REDIRECTS ALREADY MEAGER TAX REVENUES FROM EDUCATION, HEALTHCARE, SOCIAL SECURITY AND THE REPAIR OR REPLACEMENT OF (AS I’VE STATED TIME AND TIME AGAIN) INFRASTRUCTURE. – INTO THE MASS PRODUCTION OF BOMBS, OF IMPLEMENTS OF WAR . FUNDING THAT CAN IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR MILLIONS. AND IF BY CHANCE – WEÕRE ATTACKED BY MEXICO OR CANADA – WON’T NATO STEP IN? ISN’T THE CREATION OF NATO JUSTIFICATION FOR A SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION OF MILITARY EXPENDITURES? MUST WE OCCUPY SO MANY BASES AROUND THE WORLD? IF NEED BE – CAN’T NATO TAKE OVER THAT ALLEGEDLY CRUCIAL AMBITION? HOW ABOUT COUN (THE COALITION OF UNITED NATIONS)? AND DON’T WE – THE UNITED STATES AND RUSSIA POSSESS ENOUGH HYDROGEN BOMBS THAT ACT AS AN EFFICACIOUS DETERRENT? AND ISNÕT THE REDEPLOYMENT OF TROOPS SITUATED IN MILITARY BASES AROUND THE WORLD (RETURNING THEM TO AMERICAN SOIL) ALONG WITH DIPLOMACY AND AND MATURE OPEN DIALOGUE WITH TERRORIST ELEMENTS – A LOGICAL ALTERNATIVE TO A MILITARISTIC POSTURE; A STANCE THAT ONLY ANTAGONIZES OUR IDEOLOGICAL (THEOLOGICAL) ADVERSARIES. SO WHAT I SUGGEST AN IMMEDIATE REDEPLOYMENT OF TROOPS BACK TO AMERICAN BASES – THAT WILL HELP TO SUPPORT LOCAL ECONOMIES, CREATE MORE JOBS AND THAT WILL BEGIN AN ECONOMIC TRAIN REACTION. AS FOR OUR MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX – IF NEED BE – CANÕT WE SUBSIDIZE THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN WEAPONRY – CREATING A LEAN MEAN HIGH-TECH MILITARY FORCE – ALL IN THE UNUSUAL ABSENCE OF WARFARE? A STATE OF PEACE AND HARMONY IN THE ABSENCE OF PHYSICALLY AND EMOTIONALLY DAMAGED TROOPS, BODY BAGS FILLED WITH DEAD FATHERS, BROTHERS , UNCLES AND YES, EVEN WOMEN. SO WHY CANÕT WE AT LEAST ATTEMPT TO EMBRACE THE MINDSET AND MENTALITY OF A FIFTH DEGREE BLACK BELT WHO WALKS AWAY FROM A FIGHT – RESPONDING TO A REDNECK WITH MATURITY AND RESTRAINT – KNOWING FULL WELL OF HIS SUPERIOR ABILITY TO DEFEND HIMSELF. DONÕT YOU BELIEVE THAT ITÕS TIME TO REPLACE KILLING AND VIOLENCE OF OUR FELLOW MAN – WITH DIPLOMACY AND COMPROMISE? ISNÕT IT OVERDUE FOR A CHANGE IN MENTALITY AND OR AN APPROACH THAT DOESNÕT LEAD TO WARFARE??? AND FORGIVE ME – BUT WHEN WILL WE SIMPLY GROW UP? (AND WHAT DO YOU HONESTLY BELIEVE THAT GOD ALMIGHTY WOULD HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THIS UNFAMILIAR APPROACH?)
CHILD NARRATOR
HAVE YOU EVER BOTHERED TO NOTICE THAT NEARLY EVERYTHING THAT BOTH GOD AND NATURE HAS CREATED – HAS WITHIN IT AN INTRINSIC OR INHERENT PROCLIVITY TO PROGRESS, TO PROGRESS, TO ASCEND, TO BUILDUP AND YES, SADLY, TO CYCLICALLY DEGENERATE AND DECAY? THREE STEPS FORWARD – ONE STEP BACK. AND ALL OF IT – AS I HAVE STATED ON MANY OCCASIONS BEFORE – EVERYTHING THAT EXISTS IN THIS VAST INEFFABLE UNIVERSE – HAS A PRIMARY COMPONENT – THAT OF STAR DUST!!! STAR DUST THAT WHEN BROKEN DOWN IS COMPRISED OF NOTHING MORE THAN ENERGY; ENERGY THAT STORES WITHIN IT A UNIVERSAL NEED TO PROGRESS. WITHIN THAT UBIQUITOUS CONSTITUENT LIES ALL OF MANKINDÕS BRILLIANCE AND INVENTIVENESS. STORED WITHIN ENERGY IS THE SEARCH FOR SOLUTIONS, SELF-ANALYSIS AND THE BUILDING BLOCKS FROM EVERYTHING FROM INSTINCT, CREATIVITY AND INTELLECT TO ICE CREAM AND CHEESE CAKE; ART, LITERATURE AND MUSIC IN ALL OF IT’S SPLENDOR – YES EVEN THE DESTRUCTIVE NATURE OF THE ATOM BOMB. AS SUCH – GOD IS MATTER. GOD IS ENERGY. GOD IS INDEED UBIQUITOUS OR OMNIPRESENT.
A SEXY WOMAN EATS A DOUGHNUT.
WE SEE THE BIG BANG.
NOW WE ESPY ALL FORMS OF FLORA AND FAUNA.
WE’RE BACK AT THE BIG BANG AS STAR DUST TAKES SHAPES.
WE SEE SPRAWLING CITIES, SKYSCRAPERS, TRANSPORTATION AND LOTS AND LOTS OF PEOPLE.
A SMALL CHILD EATS A SLICE OF PIZZA.
WE SEE THE UNIVERSE IN ITÕS EARLY STAGES: A SUN FORMS AND THE PROCESS OF FUSION BEGINS – CREATING HUGE DEPENDABLE INCUBATORS OF LIFE.
WE WATCH MOMENTARILY AS TWO PEOPLE COPULATE.
SWIRLING MATTER BEGINS TO TAKE SHAPE.
TWO PEOPLE KISS
WE SEE STERILE LIFELESS PLANETS. THEN WE SEE VOLCANIC ACTIVITY AND RAGING WATER.
ANIMALS (INCLUDING HUMANS) GIVE BIRTH.
METEORS STRIKE THE SURFACE OF A LIFELESS PLANET.
WE SEE AS A DIVERSITY OF PEOPLE WORSHIP A DISPARATE COLLECTION OF RELIGIONS.
NOW WE SEE A VARIETY OF FOODS – PASTRY, ICE CREAM AND WHOLE SUCKLING PIG.
WE SEE SWIRLING CONGEALING DUST.
APPEARING NEXT TO A NAKED COUPLE IS AN EXOTIC SPORTS CAR AND TWO PLATES – ONE FILLED WITH STAR DUST – THE OTHER CONTAINING CHEESE CAKE.
THE NAKED WOMAN CONSUMES A SPOON-FULL OF CHEESE CAKE. FOLLOWED BY A SPOON-FULL OF STAR DUST – STAR DUST THAT IS PROMPTLY EXPELLED.
WE SEE DESOLATE PLANETS FOLLOWED BY A VARIETY OF COMPLEX CITIES, EXAMPLES OF MANKIND’S GENIUS, INGENUITY AND PROPENSITY TO CONSTRUCT.
CHILD NARRATOR
REGARDING EVOLUTION IN THE ABSENCE OF INTELLIGENT DESIGN – WHY DIDNÕT OUR ANCESTORS (THE GREAT APE) SIMPLY GROW A LARGER BRAIN??? AND WHY ARE SO MANY ANIMALS SO DAMN UNIFORM? SO SYMMETRICAL? SO AESTHETICALLY PLEASING? WHY DID EVOLUTION TAKE BUT A SINGLE PATH – RESULTING IN HOMO SAPIENS? AND WILL MANKIND OVER THE NEXT TEN THOUSAND YEARS TAKE SEVERAL EVOLUTIONARY PATHS?
INTERIOR NIGHTCLUB – EVENING
HIP COUPLES DANCE AWAY THE NIGHT AND THE CAMERA MOVES IN ON A COUPLE WHOSE DANCE MOVES ARE PARTICULARLY BIZARRE. ASIDE FROM THE STRANGENESS OF EACH DANCE MOVE – WE CAN’T HELP BUT SEE THAT THESE TWO ARE IN LOVE – WITH THEMSELVES. AND WE WATCH FOR A BIT AS JANET AND GUY BUMP AND GRIND IN RHYTHM TO THE MUSIC – FULLY AWARE THAT THEY ARE ON DISPLAY BEFORE A BEVY OF SUPERFICIAL SPECTATORS. BUT THATÕS NOT WHAT THE SKIT IS ALL ABOUT. AND WE MOVE ON WITH THE CAMERA FOLLOWING THE INTOXICATED COUPLE OUT THE NIGHTCLUB DOOR.
INTERIOR VEHICLE – ON THE ROAD – EVENING
JANET EXAMINES HER MAKE-UP IN THE MIRROR AS GUY LIGHTS A CIGARETTE EVEN AS HE COMBS HIS GREASY HAIR. AND THROUGHOUT THE RIDE THEY EACH MOVE TO THE BEAT OF THE MUSIC THAT THEY BLARE.
INTERIOR APARTMENT – THAT EVENING
THE ODD TWOSOME ARRIVE IN THEIR DINGY DISORGANIZED APARTMENT.
INTERIOR BATHROOM- THAT EVENING
STANDING SIDE BY SIDE THE PECULIAR TWOSOME REVEAL THEIR TRUE IDENTITIES AND IN UNISON THEY EACH REMOVE CONTACT LENSES, WIGS THEN DENTURES. GUY REMOVES A SHOULDER AND A BUTT PAD. AND JANET REMOVES THE PADDING IN HER BRASSIERE. GIRDLES ARE REMOVED – THE PROSTHESIS.
INTERIOR BEDROOM – THAT EVENING
THE ODD TWOSOME CRAWL INTO BED AND THE LIGHTS GO OUT.
JANET
OH, DENZEL!
GUY
OH, JULIA!
OUTDOORS – WILDERNESS LOCATION – DAY
WE WATCH AS AN ELK IS EVISCERATED BY A HUNTER. THE ENTRAILS SPILL OUT ONTO THE SOIL AND JOURNALIST, JESSY T. DROPS TO HIS HANDS AND KNEES TO VOMIT.
HUNTER
AREN’T YOU THE PANSY?
JOURNALIST
THAT’S DISGUSTING.
HUNTER
YOU EVER EAT AT MCDONALD’S, KID?
JESSY NODDED.
HUNTER
THEN YOU SHOULD BE WILLING TO KILL AND TO BUTCHER FOR YOUR OWN USE. THIS IS WHERE BURGERS COME FROM. THAT’S LIFE, KID. IT’S HYPOCRITICAL BEING A MEAT EATER AND NEVER EXPERIENCING A HUNT.
JOURNALIST
THEYÕRE JUST HARMLESS HERBIVORES.
HUNTER
NOT DURING THE RUT. THEY’RE BAD AND THEY MEAN BUSINESS.
WE PAUSE AS HUNTER SKINS THE ANIMAL.
HUNTER
YOU GONNA EAT DINNER TONIGHT
JOURNALIST SHAKES HIS HEAD “NO”.
HUNTER
YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOUÕRE MISSING. THE WAY I SPICE IT – YOU WONÕT BE ABLE TO DISTINGUISH IT FROM BEEF.
HUNTER CONTINUES THE GRUESOME PROCESS OF SKINNING THE FORLORN ANIMAL.
HUNTER
YOU GONNA TRY DINNER?
JESSY NODS IMPERCEPTIBLY.
JOURNALIST
SO HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH THE ISOLATION?
HUNTER
I GOT NO USE FOR PEOPLE.
JOURNALIST
YOU MUST MISS COMPANIONSHIP.
HUNTER
I’VE HAD IT IN THE PAST. IT WAS TOO MUCH OF A FUCKING SOAP OPERA. MOST CAN’T HANDLE THE ISOLATION; NO HOT WATER; NO TELEVISION OR REFRIGERATION DURING THE SUMMER MONTHS. PRETTY MUCH THE SAME FOOD DAY IN DAY OUT. MOST WOMEN JUST CAN’T HACK IT. I TALK A GOOD DEAL TO MYSELF. SOMETIMES I GET INTO ARGUMENTS. I TALK TO GOD – TO SATAN – EVEN TO TREES AND ANIMALS. I READ WHATEVER BOOKS I CAN GET MY HANDS ON. I HAVE AN ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANICA – USED BUT IN GOOD SHAPE. GOT IT FROM A DEAD MAN – GEORGE SINCLAIR – CLOSEST NEIGHBOR I EVER HAD; LIVED JUST BEYOND THE DISTANT RIDGE. WASNÕT ONE FOR CONVERSATION. A REGULAR
HUNTER
DANIEL BOONE IF YOU ASK ME. EVEN IN HIS SEVENTIES HE COULD SHOOT THE EYE OUT OF A KING OF HEARTS AND AT ONE HUNDRED PACES. ALSO QUITE THE INTELLECTUAL. MADE HIS WAY LITTLE BY LITTLE THROUGH THE ENCYCLOPEDIA THREE MAYBE FOUR TIMES. BUT LIKE ME – HE CHOSE TO GO IT ALONE; JUST NATURE AN ALMIGHTY GOD. HAD HIM OVER FROM DINNER ONCE; NEVER SPOKE A WORD. FOLLOWED A MEAL OF VENISON AND FRESH VEGETABLES JUST PICKED FROM MY GARDEN – WITH A BELCH. PATTED HIMSELF ON THE BELLY AND CURIOUSLY – OLD GEORGE, THE INTELLECTUAL – PULLED OUT A DOOBIE. THREE DRAGS AND I WAS STONED OUT OF MY MIND. WE FOLLOWED THE MEAL WITH SOME EARL GREY TEA – MILK AND HONEY – FOLLOWED BY A HAND-ROLLED CIGAR. AND HE WAS OUT THE DOOR AND ON HIS WAY.
JOURNALIST
WHAT DID, GEORGE DIE OF?
HUNTER
HEART ATTACK SHOVELING SNOW. JUST SIX MORE DAYS TO GO AND HE WOULD HAVE BEEN EIGHTY. YUP, HE WAS THE BEST FRIEND I EVER HAD. ONLY MAN I COULD EVER RELATE TO. LIKE ME – HAD NO USE FOR MODERN CONVENIENCES.
JOURNALIST
SO HOW DO YOU PAY FOR SUPPLIES?
HUNTER
I’M ON DISABILITY; SEVEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SEVEN DOLLARS. HEAR VOICES. STARTED PRETTY CLOSE TO MY THIRTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY.
HUNTER LIGHTS HIS PIPE.
HUNTER
DEALT WITH IT NOW FOR NEAR HALF A DECADE. THE TRUTH IS BEINÕ OUT HERE ALONE SIXTY SOME MILES FROM HELP WORRIES ME SOMETIMES. THE FACT IS THAT OUT HERE I’M ON MY OWN. SO I HAVE WHAT I NEED TO TAKE CARE OF NEARLY ANYTHING – FROM FROM CUTS, BRUISES AND INFECTION TO HEMORRHOIDS. I GROW AND PRESERVE MY OWN FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. SO NOW ITÕS NOT FEAST OR FAMINE.
JOURNALIST
AND MEDICATION?
HUNTER
THEY JUST DON’T WORK. SO I DEAL WITH THE VOICES OUT HERE AND ON MY OWN TERMS. THE FACT IS I HAVE A SCREW LOOSE. AND THE FACT IS – I WOULDNÕT HAVE IT ANY OTHER WAY. I FEEL BLESSED. EVERYTHING YOU SEE AROUND US – THE STREAMS, ANIMALS, STREAMS, TREES AND VEGETATION – ARE ALL GODÕS CANVAS. IF YOU ASK ME – HE DID ONE HELL OF A JOB.
JOURNALIST
AM I IN ANY DANGER?
HUNTER
FROM ME? ONLY IF YOUÕRE ON THE MENU, KID. ONLY IF YOU’RE ON THE MENU.
EXTERIOR – AUDITORIUM – EVENING
THEY’RE ALL STANDING OUTSIDE THE EGRESS OF THE AUDITORIUM – BULKY MUSCULAR LEGS, FIVE O’CLOCK SHADOWS, MASCULINE PHYSIOGNOMY; ALL OVERSHADOWED BY FEMININE AFFECTATION AND DAINTY WOMEN’S UNDER GARMENTS. WE WATCH A BIT AS THEY HUDDLE AND CONVERSE.
AND WE FINALLY SEE A SIGN THAT READS: TRANSVESTITES ANONYMOUS.
JOURNALIST
AND YOUR GOAL TO ANNIHILATE AMERICA IS BECAUSE?
TERRORIST
AMERICA IS THE GREAT SATAN. YOUR PEOPLE ARE PROFLIGATE IN NATURE. YOU LIVE AS GLUTTONS – FOOD, FUEL, RESOURCES – EVEN SEX. YOUR ARROGANT GOVERNMENT IS GUILTY OF HEGEMONY – OF MEDDLING IN THE AFFAIRS OF SOVEREIGN NATIONS. THIS IS YOUR PAST. THIS IS YOUR LEGACY. YOU CONTAMINATE THE PURITY OF UNIQUE CULTURES WITH YOUR BURGER KING, MCDONALD’S AND YOUR LICENTIOUS PORNOGRAPHY. YOU WORSHIP A GOD AND A RELIGION THAT BLASPHEMES ALLAH! ALL OF THIS – AND YOU WONDER WHY WE HATE YOU? YOU CAN KEEP YOUR INDIGESTION, YOUR MIGRAINES, DIARRHEA, YOUR PIMPLES AND YOUR HEMORRHOIDS! WE WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH YOUR AVARICE – YOUR MENTALITY OF MATERIALISM!
JOURNALIST
AND YOU, MY ARROGANT FRIEND, CAN KEEP YOUR FANATICISM YOUR PERPETUAL BOUT WITH ANIMUS, WITH SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS, WITH EXTREMISM – TO YOURSELF. YOU CAN CONTINUE YOUR DESTINY WITH SELF-DESTRUCTION – WITH BRINKMANSHIP. BECAUSE YOU HAVE STANDING BEFORE YOU THEOLOGICAL ADVERSARIES THAT NUMBER IN THE BILLIONS. YOU, MY PITIABLE FRIEND, HAVE YOUR WORK CUT OUT FOR YOU.
JOURNALIST
SO, YOU FINALLY MADE IT – YOU’RE A FULL-FLEDGED PHYSICIAN. SO MY ERUDITE FRIEND – ARE YOU A HEALER OR A CAPITALIST?
PHYSICIAN
I’M NOT SURE WHAT YOU MEAN.
JOURNALIST
WHAT DO YOU WAKE UP IN THE MORNING FOR – TO HEAL THE SICK OR TO PROCURE STUFF?
PHYSICIAN
I SUPPOSE FOR BOTH. I WORKED HARD FOR MY NEW PROFESSION.
I HAVE A LARGE DEBT TO PAY OFF. I ALSO BELIEVE THAT I DESERVE TO BE REWARDED FOR MY EFFORTS. I HAVE EVERY INTENTION TO MAKE UP FOR MY YEARS OF DEPRIVATION. I NEED MONEY TO RAISE A FAMILY AND I HAVE EVERY INTENTION TO GIVE MY FAMILY MEMBERS A GOOD EDUCATION AS WELL AS EVERYTHING MATERIALISM HAS TO OFFER.
JOURNALIST
TO BUY LOTS OF STUFF.
PHYSICIAN
TO PURCHASE THINGS THAT WILL MAKE MY FAMILY COMFORTABLE. ALL OF WHICH IS PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE.
JOURNALIST
AND PEOPLE? IS YOUR PRIMARY GOAL TO HEAL THEM?
PHYSICIAN
ABSOLUTELY.
JOURNALIST
THEN WHY NOT PUT THEM FIRST?
PHYSICIAN
I COULD – IF I CHOSE TO – SETTLE SOMEWHERE IN A SLUM OR BARRIO. I COULD OPEN A FEDERALLY SUBSIDIZED CLINIC. I COULD ENDURE THE DIURNAL ABUSES ASSOCIATED WITH PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN ABJECT POVERTY; WHO ARE ANGRY, FRUSTRATED, HOPELESS AND IN MANY CASES – DRUG AND ALCOHOL ADDICTED. I SUPPOSE THAT I COULD DEAL WITH THE SHOOTINGS, THE STABBING’S, THE RAPES AND EVEN THE MURDERS. I COULD IF I CHOSE TO – POSTPONE THE REARING OF A FAMILY, THE ACQUISITION OF STUFF. I COULD – IN ESSENCE – BE A MOTHER TERESA. AND IF I DID FOCUS ON PEOPLE WHO HAVE LITTLE APPRECIATION FOR MY SACRIFICE, NO MONEY FOR SERVICES RENDERED AND THE DAILY RISK ASSOCIATED WITH WORKING OR RESIDING IN A SLUM – THAT I WOULD BE CHARACTERIZED AS A FOOL AND NOT A HEALER. (PAUSE) I BELIEVE THAT I’VE SAID ENOUGH.
MILITARY BASE – ANYWHERE – DAY
GENERAL BRIGHTON AND COLONEL HICKS SMOKE CIGARS AS THEY LOOK OVER RAW RECRUITS.
BRIGHTON
THE QUESTION IS – WHAT DO WE DO WITH THEM? IN A GROUP THEY STAND OUT PROMINENTLY. AND BECAUSE THEY STANDOUT THEYÕRE TARGETED. WE CAN’T DISCHARGE THEM SIMPLY BECAUSE THEYÕRE DIFFERENT.
HICKS
I SAY WE MERGE THEM. CREATE A COMPANY OF SPECIAL FORCE COMMANDO’S. THEY CAN EAT TOGETHER. THEY CAN TRAIN TOGETHER. THEY CAN SHOWER TOGETHER. THEY CAN FINALLY BE WITH THEIR OWN KIND. AS SUCH THEY CAN EXPERIENCE A SENSE OF BELONGING AND CAMARADERIE.
BRIGHTON
THEY WON’T BE PERSECUTED ANYMORE.
NARRATOR WILL WILL SPEAK AS WE SHOW FOOTAGE OF THIS ELITE SQUADRON IN ACTION. FIRST FROM THE WAIST UP.
(VOICE OVER) NARRATOR
THEY CAME FROM AROUND THE WORLD; AN ELITE SQUADRON OF SOLDIERS WHO EACH FACED ADVERSITY AS MEN. SOLDIERS WHO IN SPITE OF THEIR ABERRANT MAKE-UP – PULLED TOGETHER TO ACHIEVE A SINGULAR HONORABLE GOAL.
WE FINALLY GET A GLIMPSE OF THIS ELITE GROUP AS THEYÕRE MARCHING AND WE PROMPTLY REALIZE THAT EACH SOLDIER IS KNOCK-KNEED AND PIGEON-TOED.
WE WATCH AS THEY TRAVERSE AN OBSTACLE COURSE.
WE WATCH THEM AS THEY ENGAGE IN MOCK BATTLES.
NARRATOR
AND THEY FOUGHT WITH HEROISM AND GRACE IN SPITE OF OVERWHELMING ODDS. THEY EPITOMIZED THE VALOR AND PUISSANCE OF THE TRUE AMERICAN PATRIOT. AND THEY EACH BECAME NOTHING LESS THAN FINELY TUNED KILLING MACHINES – OF ONE GOAL – OF BUT A SINGLE IDENTITY AND MENTALITY.
(VOICE OVER) HICKS
KILLING MACHINES? IS IT ME, OR DO THEY LOOK RATHER SILLY?
INTERIOR AUDITORIUM
A CONDUCTOR CONDUCTS. IT’S MOZART. ANYTHING WILL DO.
NOW IT’S A TWO YEAR-OLD CHILD CONDUCTING AND CURIOUSLY – NOTHING HAS CHANGED.
NOW IT’S A CHIMPANZEE CONDUCTING AND AGAIN – NOTHING HAS CHANGED.
FINALLY IT’S A PERSON BENT OVER WITH A BATON PROTRUDING FROM HIS BACKSIDE AND AGAIN NOTHING HAS CHANGED. THE MUSIC SOUNDS EXACTLY THE SAME! (ENOUGH SAID)
CHILD NARRATOR
SO? WHEN DID SEX FIRST CREATE OR BRING ABOUT GUILT? WHEN AND WHO WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO BE OFFENDED BY THE SIGHT OF GENITALIA? HOW DID THE VERY FIRST OBSCENE GESTURE COME ABOUT?
THE FIRST EPITHET?
THE VERY FIRST EXPLETIVE?
WE ENGAGE IN RITUALS BY THE HUNDREDS! SO? HOW THE HELL DO THEY MANIFEST?
WHO REPEATED THE VERY FIRST MANTRA?
WHO WAS THE VERY FIRST PRIEST? AND WHO WAS THE VERY FIRST TO PERFORM THE CATHOLIC CONFESSION?
TO GENUFLECT?
TO ENGAGE IN HOLY COMMUNION?
CHILD NARRATOR
WHO WAS THE VERY FIRST PERSON TO PARTAKE OF THE EUCHARIST?
WHO PERFORMED THE VERY FIRST NUPTIAL? AND WHY?
WHO WAS THE VERY FIRST TO SNEEZE – FOLLOWED BY ÒGOD BLESS YOUÓ?
ITÕS ALL VERY CURIOUS TO ME.
ANTI-SEMETIC CATHOLIC WOMAN (DELORES)
FUCKING JEWS! THEY KILLED CHRIST! I’LL NEVER FORGIVE THEM!
JESSY
DELORES, THE JEWS DIDNÕT KILL CHRIST, THE ROMAN SOLDIERS DID.
DELORES
THE JEWS WENT ALONG WITH CHRIST’S CRUCIFIXION!
JESSY
I HATE TO BURST YOUR BUBBLE, DELORES, BUT CHRIST WAS A JEW.. MORE SIGNIFICANT THAN THAT – HAD THE CRUCIFIXION OF CHRIST NOT HAVE TAKEN PLACE – THE REDEMPTION AND RANSOM SACRIFICE WOULD NOT HAVE TRANSPIRED. MANKIND WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE FORGIVEN FOR THE SINS OF ADAM AND EVE. THE CURSE OF MANKIND WOULD STILL BE IN PLACE. CHRISTÕS PLAN – GOD THE FATHERÕS PLAN (THE CRUCIFIXION OF CHRIST) WOULD NOT HAVE TAKEN PLACE AND THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL CRUX OR FOUNDATION IN CHRISTIANITY WOULD HAVE BEEN AVERTED. EVERYONE WOULD BE DESTINED FOR AN ETERNITY IN HELL.
DELORES
SO WHY DID HIS VERY OWN PEOPLE ABANDON HIM?
JESSY
BECAUSE CHRIST HELPED (SIGNIFICANTLY) TO CARRYOUT THE AMBITION OR INTENT TO CREATE THE NEW TESTAMENT. A RELIGIOUS DOCTRINE THAT IN MANY WAYS NULLIFIES MUCH OF THE OLD TESTAMENT – PUSHING MUCH OF IT’S PRECEPTS AND OR EDICTS INTO OBSOLESCENCE. THATÕS WHY WE DON’T STONE TO DEATH HOMOSEXUALS, THOSE GUILTY OF INFIDELITY, PEOPLE WHO WORK ON THE SABBATH OR THOSE WHO BLASPHEME GOD.
DELORES
AND TODAY’S JEWS WHO FOLLOW THE TORAH? ARE THEY STONING ONE ANOTHER TO DEATH?
JESSY
AS I UNDERSTAND IT – ONLY IN ASIA.
DELORES
MUSLIMS AND ATHEISTS.
JESSY NODDED.
DELORES
THEN THE ISRAELIS ARE GUILTY OF APOSTASY.
JESSY
I SUPPOSE THAT YOU COULD MAKE THAT CASE.
DELORES
AND THEY DON’T BELIEVE IN CHRIST.
JESSY
I BELIEVE THAT THE JEWS AND THE MUSLIMS VIEW CHRIST AS A GREAT PROPHET – NOTHING MORE – NOTHING LESS. NOR DO THEY HAVE ANY APPRECIATION FOR THE NEW TESTAMENT.
` DELORES
AS NON-MUSLIMS – WE’RE ALL INFIDELS. AND ACCORDING TO THE QUR’AN – MUSLIMS FROM AROUND THE WORLD ARE INSTRUCTED TO KILL THE INFIDEL.
JESSY
MY PROBLEM WITH THE GENTILE IS THAT MANY OF THEM SEEM INCAPABLE OF EMPATHIZING WITH THE JEW. THEY COMPLETELY MARGINALIZE THE GENOCIDE OF THE JEW DURING WORLD WAR TWO. AND YOU, DELORES. ARE AMONG THEM.
DELORES
GOD ABANDONED THE JEW FOR THEIR REJECTION OF, CHRIST.
JESSY
I HAVE TO ADMIT THAT IT LOOKS THAT WAY. BUT ACCORDING TO SCRIPTURE- THE SEMITES ARE THE CHOSEN PEOPLE.
DELORES
THEN WHY DIDN’T GOD INTERVENE?
JESSY
WHAT’S IMPORTANT IS THAT WE HAVE A HISTORIC AND PERSONAL OBLIGATION TO HELP THEM ACHIEVE PEACE IN THE REGION.
DELORES
‘ÕLL NEVER HAND OVER THE DISPUTED TERRITORIES.
JESSY
MAYBE IF WE SEND A PERMANENT CONTINGENT OF INTERNATIONAL TROOPS – THEY’LL FEEL SECURE ENOUGH TO COMPROMISE. THEY, THE ISRAELIS VIEW THE LAND TO BE THEIRS. ONCE AGAIN – RELIGION IS LEADING TO WARFARE AND NOT PEACE.
DELORES
YOU TALK LIKE AN ATHEIST.
JESSY
I SEE RELIGION FOR WHAT IT IS. A HARBINGER OF PEACE, A PROGENITOR OF LOVE AND RECONCILIATION AND CONVERSELY, ANTITHETICALLY – AN UNDENIABLE SOURCE OF WARFARE, BIGOTRY AND GENOCIDE. RELIGION MAKES MANY PEOPLE UNWILLING TO COMPROMISE – LIKE A SCALPEL -IT CAN BE USED TO KILL OR IT CAN BE USED TO HEAL.
JESSY
FORGIVE ME, REGIS, BUT I’M TOTALLY PERPLEXED. YOU HAVE NO ATTRACTION TO WOMEN AT ALL?
GAY MALE
I CAN SEE BEAUTY IN WOMEN. JUST AS YOU – ASSUMING THAT YOU’RE WILLING TO ADMIT IT – CAN RECOGNIZE A HANDSOME MAN OR A CHISELED MALE PHYSIQUE; DESPITE THE FACT THAT YOU’RE HETEROSEXUAL.
JESSY
BUT A NAKED PAMELLA ANDERSON WOULDN’T CREATE EVEN A SLIGHT RISE IN YOU?
JESSY
FORGIVE ME FOR BEING SO CANDID – BUT HAVE YOU EVER HAD INTERCOURSE WITH A WOMAN?
GAY MALE
TWICE.
JESSY
AND THE FEELING OF PENETRATING A VAGINA ISN’T AT LEAST SOMEWHAT PLEASURABLE TO YOU? BUT IF YOU FORGET FOR THE MOMENT THAT IT’S A WOMEN THAT YOUÕRE HAVING SEX WITH – AND YOU FOCUS COMPLETELY ON THE FEELING ITSELF – DOESN’T IT FEEL GOOD?
GAY MALE
I GUESS WHAT YOU DONÕT UNDERSTAND – IS THAT I’M ATTRACTED TO MALE GENITALIA; I’M AROUSED BY THE MALE PHYSIQUE.
JESSY
BUT HOW MUCH OF YOUR ATTRACTION IS SIMPLY EMOTIONAL OR PSYCHOLOGICAL? I GUESS WHAT I’M ASKING YOU – IS DO YOU LIKE WOMEN EMOTIONALLY?
GAY MALE
MANY OF MY FRIENDS ARE FEMALE.
JESSY
SO YOU FEEL AN EMOTIONAL BOND WITH THEM.
GAY MALE
THE VERY SAME WAY THAT YOU HAVE MALE FRIENDS WHO YOU BOTH LIKE AND RESPECT.
JESSY
ARE YOU ENVIOUS OF WOMEN?
GAY MALE
IF YOU”RE ASKING ME WHETHER OR NOT I WANT TO BE A WOMAN – THE ANSWER IS “NO” . I LIKE BEING A GAY MALE. ONLY I WISH THAT THERE WASNÕT SO MUCH PREJUDICE – EVEN HATRED OUT THERE TOWARDS HOMOSEXUALS. AND IF YOU ASK ME THE OLD TESTAMENT DOESNÕT HELP MATTERS. IT HELPS TO CRATE A CLIMATE OF INTOLERANCE.
JESSY
SO WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE SPECULATION THAT HOMOSEXUALITY IS A PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDER?
GAY MALE
I FIND THAT VERY INSULTING. I’M NOT MENTALLY ILL. I’M HAPPY AND WELL ADJUSTED. I’M VERY COMFORTABLE WITH WHO I AM.
JESSY
I BELIEVE THAT ONE DAY SCIENTIST, RESEARCHERS WILL LOCATE A CHEMICAL BRAIN IMBALANCE OR A PHYSIOLOGICAL ABERRATION THAT WILL EVENTUALLY TREAT HOMOSEXUALITY AS A MENTAL ILLNESS. AN ILLNESS THAT IS NO DIFFERENT THEN THAT OF PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA OR DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER.
GAY MALE
HOW CAN I NOT BE OFFENDED?
JESSY
I’M NO HOMOPHOBE. I’M SIMPLY STATING THAT THE HOMOSEXUAL DOESN’T CHOOSE HIS OR HER SEXUAL ORIENTATION ANY MORE THAN A A MENTALLY ILL PERSON CHOOSES TO BE A BE A PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIC. THAT AS I SEE IT IS SIMPLY MY TRUTH – MY SPECULATION.
GAY MALE
SO DO YOU BELIEVE THAT FELLATIO OR ANAL SEX AMONG STRAIGHTS IS ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR? HOW ABOUT MASTURBATION? I’VE NEVER HEARD OF A BIRTH RESULTING FROM ANYTHING OTHER THAN INTERCOURSE. IS THE VOYEUR/ONANIST SUFFERING FROM MENTAL ILLNESS? AND HOW WOULD WE FEEL ABOUT THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES – IF WE FOUND OUT THAT HE ENGAGED IN MASTURBATION? WHAT IF WE DISCOVERED THAT THE FIRST LADY ENGAGED IN ANAL OR ORAL SEX?
JESSY
I’M A VOYEUR/ONANIST – AND I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT SUCH A PECULIAR PROCLIVITY IS DUE TO A PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDER,
GAY MALE
THE FACT IS THAT I DON’T UNDERSTAND YOUR SEXUALITY AND YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND MINE. MY PREDILECTION, MY SEXUAL ORIENTATION IS AN ENIGMA TO YOU – AND YOURS IS TO ME. THE QUESTION IS DO WE JUDGE ONE ANOTHER AS HUMAN BEINGS – ASSESSING OUR CHARACTER, OUR DECENCY, OUR SENSE OF COMPASSION AND HUMANITY ALL BASED UPON WHAT WE DO WITH OUR GENITALIA. ASSUMING THAT OUR QUEST FOR SATISFACTION DOESN’T HURT, EXPLOIT DIMINISH OR DEMEAN CHILDREN, NON-CONSENTING ADULTS OR ANYONE WHO IS SIMPLY UNABLE TO GRASP THE SEXUAL IMPLICATIONS DUE TO DIMINISHED INTELLECT, IMMATURITY OR ADDICTION. WHAT WE AS MATURE ADULTS DO BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, IN THE PRIVACY OF OUR HOMES IS BETWEEN OUR CONSCIENCE, OUR MATES AND OUR GOD.
MAIN STREET USA – DAY
SOLDIERS ARMED WITH RIFLES AND BAYONETS MARCH WITH PRECISION BEFORE AN ENTHUSIASTIC CROWD. THE TIMING AND SKILL OF THE MARCH IS METICULOUS. THE SCENE EVOKES PRIDE, REVERENCE AND ADMIRATION. EVERYTHING IS GOING WELL AND SOMEONE UP FRONT TRIPS AND CREATES A DOMINO EFFECT AS EVERYONE FALLS FORWARD SPEARING THE MAN IN FRONT OF HIM WITH HIS BAYONET.
STERILE WHITE ROOM – DAY
DEVIN IS SIX YEARS OLD AND AS OF YET HE’S NEVER BEEN INTRODUCED TO GOD AND AS SUCH HE KNOWS NOTHING OF GODÕS ABILITIES, MENTALITY OR ALLEGED PAST “WORKS”. DEVIN IS SEATED FACE TO FACE WITH GOD.
GOD
GOOD TO MEET YOU, DEVIN, I’M GOD.
DEVIN EXTENDS HIS HAND AND THEY “SHAKE”. THEY SIT IN SILENCE FOR A BIT UNTIL GOD SPEAKS.
GOD
I’M OMNIPOTENT. THAT MEANS THAT I’M ALL POWERFUL. I CAN ESSENTIALLY DO ANYTHING WITHOUT LIMITATIONS OR BOUNDARIES. I CAN DO THINGS WITHOUT CONSIDERATION EVEN FOR IMMUTABLE LAWS. I CAN CREATE AN ENTIRE GALAXY, CREATE NEW AND UNIQUE FORMS OF LIFE. I CAN DESTROY THE EARTH WITH AS LITTLE AS AN EFFORTLESS THOUGHT.
DEVIN REMAINS STOLID AND UNIMPRESSED.
GOD
I”M OMNISCIENT. THAT MEANS THAT I KNOW EVERYTHING. I KNOW THE SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE OF EVERY FIELD OR PROFESSION. I EVEN POSSESS KNOWLEDGE OR SCIENTIFIC FACT THAT AS OF YET HAS NOT BEEN DISCOVERED.
DEVIN IS STILL STOLID AND UNIMPRESSED.
GOD
I’M UBIQUITOUS. THAT MEANS THAT I’M EVERYWHERE AT ONCE.
DEVIN IS STILL STOIC.
GOD
I HAVE THE POWER OF LIFE AND DEATH IN MY GRASP. AND IN THE PAST, ON NUMEROUS OCCASIONS BEFORE – I’VE KILLED IN THE ABSENCE OF THE SANCTITY OF LIFE. ONCE I FLOODED THE ENTIRE PLANET – WIPING- OUT ALL LIFE – ALL FORMS OF FLORA AND FAUNA. I DESTROYED THE CITIES OF SODOM AND GOMORRA AND NOT ONE INHABITANT WAS SPARED, MAN. WOMAN OR CHILD.
DEVIN REMAINS UNCHANGED.
GOD
AND ANYONE WHO DOES NOT BELIEVE IN ME – JEW, MUSLIM, BUDDHIST, ATHEIST OR AGNOSTIC – REGARDLESS OF CIRCUMSTANCE, AGE OR GOOD OR ILL NATURE – WILL BURN IN HELL FOR ALL OF ETERNITY.
DEVIN SIMPLY SHAKES HIS HEAD IN DISBELIEF AND HE WALKS OFF.
EXTERIOR – PARK – DAY
A MAN FROLICS IN THE PARK WITH HIS BELOVED DOG.
INTERIOR APARTMENT
A MAN AND HIS BELOVED DOG ARE SEATED AT THE DINING ROOM TABLE. THE MAIN COURSE IS REVEALED – ITÕS A ROASTED PIG WITH AN APPLE IN IT’S MOUTH.
THE MAN PATS HIS DOG ON THE HEAD AND HE FEEDS HIM FLESH FROM THE ROASTED PIG.
NORTH KOREA – PARK – DAY
A NORTH KOREAN MAN AND HIS BELOVED PIG FROLIC IN THE PARK.
INTERIOR NORTH KOREAN APARTMENT – DINING ROOM
NORTH KOREAN MAN IS SEATED AT THE TABLE BESIDE HIS BELOVED PIG THE MAIN COURSE IS REVEALED – IT’S A ROASTED DOG.
NORTH KOREAN MAN PATS HIS BELOVED PIG ON THE HEAD AND HE FEEDS HIM FLESH FROM THE DOG CARCASS.
(IN KOREAN) MAN
YOU LIKE THAT, DON’T YOU, SCOUT.
MADE IN CHINA APPEARS ON THE SCREEN.
ONE BY ONE CHINESE MADE ITEMS ARE PLACED INTO A BRANCH/TREE SHREDDER.
ANGRY UNEMPLOYED MAN TOSSES IN ONE ITEM (PRODUCT) AT A TIME. FINALLY HE’S DONE. HE RUBS HIS HANDS TOGETHER, BREAKS WIND AND WALKS OFF.
INTERIOR OFFICE
GENERAL CONTRACTOR/BUSINESSMAN (JUDD) IS SITUATED AT HIS OSTENTATIOUS DESK.
STANDING BEFORE HIM IS EMPLOYEE JACKSON.
JUDD
I CAN’T PAY YOU MORE MONEY, JACKSON BECAUSE YOUR POSITION REQUIRES NO SKILL. AND BESIDES IF I PAID EVERYONE WHAT THEY FELT THEY WERE WORTH – IT WOULDNÕT LEAVE ME ANY PROFITS. AND THIS IS NO NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION.
JACKSON
MR. JUDD THERE AREN’T MANY PEOPLE WHO CAN DEAL WITH THE DEMANDS OF THE JOB. I SEE IT ALL OF THE TIME. YOU GO THROUGH LABORERS LIKE A SLEAZY HOOKER GOES THROUGH JOHNS. MOST TRY IT FOR A WEEK OR TWO AND THEY EVENTUALLY FIND THEMSELVES IN THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINE.
JUDD
THERE’S SOME TRUTH TO THAT, JACKSON. BUT DESPITE THE TURNOVER, I STILL MANAGE TO GET THE WORK DONE.
JACKSON
BUT I’VE BEEN WITH YOU FOR MORE THAN SEVEN MONTHS, MR. JUDD. I DO A GOOD JOB FOR YOU. IÕM ALWAYS ON TIME. AND I’M SURE YOU KNOW THAT I HAVE A WIFE AND TWO CHILDREN TO SUPPORT. I WORK FIFTY HOURS PER WEEK FOR YOU AND ITÕS STILL NOT ENOUGH TO LIVE ON. AND IT’S HARD TO FACE MY WIFE WHO COOKS, CLEANS, SHOPS AND WHO TAKES CARE OF TWO ENERGETIC TODDLERS THAT I CANÕT AFFORD THE INSURANCE ON OUR THIRTY YEAR-OLD PICKUP TRUCK – THAT MY RICH EMPLOYER NEEDS MORE MONEY TO SUPPORT HIS MISTRESS ON THE SIDE, TO PAY FOR MORE STUFF THAT HE – YOU – DON’T REALLY NEED.
JACKSON
IF YOU WON’T GIVE ME A RAISE, THEN AT LEAST GIVE ME AN APPRENTICESHIP; ANY TRADE WILL DO – ANYTHING THAT WILL – IF I HANG IN THERE LONG ENOUGH – GIVE ME A LIVING WAGE.
JUDD
I AGREE THAT YOU NEED TO LEARN A TRADE, KID.
JACKSON
THEN WHY DON’T YOU OFFER ME AN APPRENTICESHIP?
JUDD
BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO HAVE SOME EXPERIENCE IN ORDER TO BE HIRED AS AN APPRENTICE.
JACKSON
MR. JUDD, HOW DO I GET THE EXPERIENCE?
JUDD
YOU KNOW, KID, I’VE NEVER QUITE FIGURED THAT OUT.
JACKSON
SO IF I GET SOME EXPERIENCE – YOU’LL HELP ME ENTER AN APPRENTICESHIP?
JUDD
YOU BETCHA!
JACKSON
SO I JUST NEED SOME EXPERIENCE?
JUDD
YOU KNOW THAT YOU COULD TRY ANOTHER CONTRACTOR.
JACKSON
I’VE ALREADY TRIED. THEY WON’T HIRE ME…
(SIMULTANEOUS) JACKSON/JUDD
WITHOUT ANY EXPERIENCE!
JUDD
THAT DOES SEEM TO BE A DILEMMA.
JACKSON
SO I THINK THAT I GET IT. IF I GET SOME EXPERIENCE IN ANY TRADE – DESPITE THE FACT THAT NO ONE WILL HIRE WITHOUT EXPERIENCE – SO THAT I CAN GET A JOB AS AN EXPERIENCED APPRENTICE – ALL I HAVE TO DO IS TO GET SOME EXPERIENCE -SO THAT MY WIFE CAN USE MY TRUCK THAT WILL FINALLY BE INSURED – ALL WHILE YOU LIVE IN THE LAP OF LUXURY – CHEATING ON YOUR WIFE, JOYCE, PURCHASING A THIRD SILVER METALLIC HUMVEE, A FOURTH HIGH DEFINITION TELEVISION WITH SURROUND SOUND AND WHILE PAYING YOUR MORTGAGE ON YOUR FIFTEEN ROOM TEN BATH THREE STORY SPLIT LEVEL MANSION. DOES THAT ABOUT SUM IT UP?
JUDD
YOU BETCHA!
WILDERNESS LOCATION – OLD GROWTH FOREST – DAY
LOGGER/REDNECK
SO? YOU TALK TO THE TREES? I SUPPOSE THAT THEY TALK BACK?
TREE HUGGING ENVIRONMENTALIST
AS DO THE ANIMALS THAT OCCUPY THE WOODS.
LOGGER/REDNECK
HOW LONG DO YOU INTEND TO SIT IN THAT TREE? AREN’T YOU TIRED OF SHITTING IN A BUCKET? TAKING SPONGE BATHES? LIVING IN SUCH CRAMPED QUARTERS? SLEEPING ON A PLYWOOD BASE?
TREE HUGGING ENVIRONMENTALIST
I HAVE BOOKS. AND I HAVE THE DAILY SATISFACTION OF KNOWING THAT I’M SAVING A PRECIOUS LIFE.
LOGGER/REDNECK
PRECIOUS LIFE? YOUÕRE PROTECTING A FUCKING TWO BY FOUR! YOU’RE SOME FUCKING LOON! YOUÕRE A CERTIFIABLE DIPPY, FLAKED-OUT BROAD!
TREE HUGGING ENVIRONMENTALIST
DO YOU HAVE TO RESORT TO NAME CALLING? THAT’S AWFULLY IMMATURE. EVEN THOUGH YOUÕRE A TOBACCO CHEWIN’, WHISKEY SWIGGIN’, SKIRT CHASIN’, WOMANIZING REDNECK!
LOGGER/REDNECK
WHORE!
TREE HUGGING ENVIRONMENTALIST
PIG!
LOGGER/REDNECK
DIKE!
TREE HUGGING ENVIRONMENTALIST
CLOSET HOMOSEXUAL!
LOGGER/REDNECK
LOUSY BITCH!
TREE HUGGING ENVIRONMENTALIST
WOMAN BATTERER! RAPIST!
LOGGER/REDNECK
CASTRATING SLUT!
FADE OUT. CAMERA GRADUALLY PULLS BACK AS WE GRADUALLY LOSE THE SOUND.
TREE HUGGING ENVIRONMENTALIST
MASTURBATING ADOLESCENT!
LOGGER/REDNECK
STINKY CROTCHED WHORE!
EXTERIOR RESIDENCE – BACKYARD – DAY
A CAT SHITS. A DOG GREEDILY EATS THE CAT SHIT.
ANNOUNCER
INTRODUCING A NEW TASTE SENSATION.
INTERIOR – KITCHEN
A PERSON REMOVES A A DOG TREAT FROM A BAG. SURE ENOUGH IT LOOKS LIKE CAT SHIT.
PERSON FEEDS THE TREAT TO A DOG WHO AGAIN GREEDILY CONSUMES IT.
ANNOUNCER
DOGS DON’T KNOW IT’S NOT CAT SHIT!
EXTERIOR BASEBALL FIELD – DAY
BASEBALL PLAYER’S PRACTICE BASEBALL. THROUGHOUT IT ALL PLAYERS SPIT AND GRAB THEIR CROTCHES.
INTERIOR HOCKEY ARENA – DAY
HOCKEY PLAYER’S SLAP THE PUCK AROUND AND INEVITABLY A FIGHT BREAKS OUT.
ANNOUNCER
WHAT ATHLETES WOULD HAVE DONE TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
ANYWHERE – TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO – DAY
PEOPLE CLOTHED AS PILGRIMS SPIT AND GRAB THEIR CROTCHES AND SURE ENOUGH A FIGHT BREAKS-OUT.
ENOUGH SAID!
GHANDI SPEAKING TO GOD.
GHANDI
SO IT IS MY DESTINY FOR ETERNITY IN PERDITION. I WILL NOT COME TO YOU AS A BRAGGADOCIO; NOR WILL I EXPOUND UPON MY ATTRIBUTES YOU BLESSED ME WITH AS A LEADER WHO ADVOCATED COMPLIANCE AND COMPROMISE AMONG THE RELIGIOUSLY DEVOUT MASSES. I WILL NOT PROCLAIM A LIFE – OF PIETY, OF SPIRITUALITY, OF PEACE AND RECONCILIATION. I WILL NOT BOAST OF MY LEGACY OF LOVE. NOR WILL I ATTEMPT TO DEFINE MY VERITABLE ESSENCE TO YOU ALMIGHTY GOD. FOR YOU KNOW ME BETTER THAN I KNOW MYSELF. FOR THROUGHOUT MY LIFE – I JUDICIOUSLY CONCLUDED THAT THAT YOU, GOD ARE TRUTH AND THAT TRUTH IS SUBJECTIVE. I WILL NOT ASK OR PRAY FOR REPRIEVE OR ABSOLUTION. I WILL NOT SOLICIT COMPASSION OR EMPATHY FROM YOU, ALMIGHTY GOD. NOR WILL ATTEMPT TO AROUSE THE MAJESTY OF YOUR FORGIVENESS AND GRACE. FOR I AM NOW A MAN WHO IS HOMELESS – WHO FACES AN ETERNITY BEFORE HIM THAT BELIES A LIFETIME OF SANCTITY AND CONSECRATION AND THE MARROW AND ESSENCE OF DEITY. SO IT WILL BE AS YOU ORDAIN IT.
INTERIOR STERILE WHITE ROOM
JESSY
SO? WHAT’S IT LIKE PARTICIPATING IN WARFARE? (PAUSE) HAVE YOU FOUND THE TRANSITION FROM LAW ABIDING CIVILIAN TO SOMEONE WHOSE JOB IT IS TO TAKE HUMAN LIVES?
SOLDIER
IF IT WAS UP TO ME I’D BE AT HOME KICKING BACK WITH AN ICE COLD BEER AND SOME BEER NUTS – WATCHING THE BOSTON RED SOCKS MANHANDLING THE NEW YORK YANKEES. I’D HAVE SEVERAL PORTERHOUSE STEAKS ON THE GRILL WITH THREE OR FOUR OF MY BEST FRIENDS ON HAND. WE’D BE SCREAMING AT THE TOP OF OUR LUNGS LIKE DOTING PARENTS AT A SOCCER MATCH.
JESSY
INTELLECTUAL STUFF.
SOLDIER
ONCE THE GAME WAS OVER WE’D SETTLE OUR WAGERS AND WE’D SIT DOWN TO A GREAT MEAL SERVED TO US BY MY WIFE, JANET. A WIFE THAT I MISS EVERY MINUTE OF THE DAY – ESPECIALLY WHEN IÕM IN COMBAT.
JESSY
I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU’RE A BAKER.
SOLDIER
SEVEN YEARS MINUS FOUR MONTHS SERVING MY COUNTRY.
JESSY
I HAVE TO ASK YOU WHAT IT’S LIKE GOING FROM BAKING BREAD TO TAKING LIVES? WHAT WAS IT LIKE THE VERY FIRST TIME YOU HIT YOUR TARGET?
SOLDIER
(SOLDIER APPEARED PENSIVE) THE TRUTH IS THAT I VOMITED.
JESSY
YOU’RE A SNIPER. SO IT’S ALL DONE AT LONG DISTANCE.
SOLDIER NODS IMPERCEPTIBLY.
JESSY
HAVE YO U EVER SEEN ANY OF YOUR DEAD ADVERSARIES UP CLOSE?
SOLDIER
I SUPPOSE THAT I HAVE TO DEHUMANIZE THEM. ALL THEY ARE IS TARGETS. BUT THE FIRST TIME I SAW SOMEONE I KILLED WHAT I SAW WAS A CARPENTER OR AN ACCOUNTANT. I MADE THE MISTAKE OF LOOKING INTO HIS WALLET. IT WAS THEN I REALIZED THAT HE WAS A FATHER, A HUSBAND AND A SON. THEY HAVE LOVED ONEÕS WHO LOVE THEM – WHO PRAY TO GOD DAILY THAT THEYÕLL COME HOME IN ONE PIECE – WITH THEIR BODIES AND EMOTIONS INTACT.
JESSY
ARE YOU WORRIED ABOUT RETURNING HOME AND MAKING THE DIFFICULT TRANSITION FROM A KILLER BACK TO A BAKER – TO A HUSBAND AND A PAMPERING FATHER – SON -IN- LAW, UNCLE AND LAW ABIDING PEACEFUL NEIGHBOR? SOMEONE WHO NO LONGER RESOLVES PROBLEMS BY TAKING A LIFE – BUT BY USING TACT AND INTELLECT – ABOVE ALL BY USING EMOTIONAL MATURITY AND RESTRAINT?
SOLDIER
I STILL HAVEN’T GOTTEN USED TO THE LACK OF CIVILITY; NO DUE PROCESS; NO TRIAL BY YOUR PIERS. THE TRUTH IS THAT I KNOW THAT THEY ARE THE ENEMY – BUT I STILL HAVEN’T LEARNED TO HATE. THEY’RE ALL JUST LIKE ME – PATRIOTIC CIVILIANS WHO ARE IN A WAR DUE TO THE INEPTITUDE OF POLITICIANS AND DIPLOMATS. (LONG PAUSE)
SOLDIER LIGHTS AND DRAWS ON A CIGARETTE.
SOLDIER
I KNOW WHEN I GET HOME I’LL HAVE TO LEAVE BEHIND THE MENTALITY TO KILL. I’LL HAVE TO FOCUS ON THE SUPPORT OF MY FAMILY.
AND THE FACT IS THAT PEOPLE ARE DYING ALL AROUND ME. I KNOW THAT I COULD BE NEXT. IF ITÕS GOD’S WILL I’LL MAKE IT HOME ALIVE. (PAUSE) THAT IS – IF IT’S GOD’S WILL.
INTERIOR – THE OVAL OFFICE
WE AWAIT THE ARRIVAL OF THE PRESIDENT
ANNOUNCER
THE YEAR IS 2525 AND WE HAVE AS THE LEADER OF OUR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC THE VERY FIRST PRESIDENT WITH A SPEECH IMPEDIMENT.
ANNOUNCER TWO
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN – THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
THE PRESIDENT ARRIVES AND HE SEATS HIMSELF AT THE OVAL OFFICE.
(WITH A SPEECH IMPEDIMENT) PRESIDENT
MY FELLOW AMERICANS, ON THIS AUSPICIOUS DAY WE ENTER THE UNCERTAIN WATERS OF WARFARE. SADLY AFTER MONTHS OF DIPLOMACY, THE TALKS HAVE BROKEN DOWN AND THE CIRCUMSTANCES HAVE RAPIDLY DETERIORATED. AS WE SPEAK A POWERFUL AND WELL TRAINED ADVERSARY HAS AMASSED IT’S FORCES ON OUR BORDERS. AS YOUR COMMANDER AND CHIEF – I HAVE ORDERED ALL FOUR BRANCHES OF THE MILITARY TO TAKE A DEFENSIVE NON-CONFRONTATIONAL STANCE WELL WITHIN OUR TERRITORIES. AND BECAUSE OF THE SERIOUS NATURE OF OUR DILEMMA – I AM CALLING FOR MANDATORY CONSCRIPTION. AND I AM ASKING THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE QUALIFIED TO ENLIST – TO ENLIST VOLUNTARILY. DO IT FOR YOURSELF. DO IT FOR YOUR FAMILY. DO IT FOR YOUR COUNTRY. AND TO THOSE EVIL FORCES THAT LOOM AND WHO DARE TO THREATEN AMERICAÕS SOVEREIGNTY. YOU HAVE AWAKENED A SLEEPING GIANT. YOU HAVE INSPIRED A PERVASIVE AND PATRIOTIC FERVOR. AND MOST ASSUREDLY AND DUE TO OUR COHESIVE AND RESOLUTE SPIRIT – WE WILL DEFEAT YOU SOUNDLY AND RIGHTFULLY. FOR WE ARE A COUNTRY OF WARRIORS AND FREEDOM FIGHTERS./ GOD BLESS AMERICA AND MAY GOD BE WITH YOU.
INTERIOR CHURCH
A REVEREND STANDS BEFORE THE PODIUM
ANNOUNCER
THE FIRST MASS HELD BY A REVEREND WITH A SPEECH IMPEDIMENT.
(WITH A SPEECH IMPEDIMENT) REVEREND
OUR HEAVENLY FATHER – WE ARE GATHERED HERE ON THIS OCCASION TO CELEBRATE THE BIRTH OF YOUR DIVINE SON. ON THIS OUR MOST PROFOUND DAY AND MOMENTOUS OCCASION, WE ASK YOU FOR HEAVENLY GUIDANCE. HALLELUJAH. HALLELUJAH.
INTERIOR MILITARY HEADQUARTERS
A GENERAL WITH A SPEECH IMPEDIMENT ADDRESSES THE TROOPS.
ANNOUNCER
THE VERY FIRST GENERAL WITH A SPEECH IMPEDIMENT.
KILL! KILL! KILL! AND SHOW YOUR ENEMY NO MERCY! FOR WE ARE TOUGH AND WE ARE FEARLESS! WE ARE THE EPITOME OF MANLINESS! AND WE WILL CRUSH OUR ADVERSARIES WITH WILLFULNESS AND COMPLETE AND UTTER INDIFFERENCE!!!
A JOURNALIST SITS FACE TO FACE WITH A SERIAL KILLER.. AND YES, THE SERIAL KILLER HAS A SPEECH IMPEDIMENT.
ANNOUNCER
THE VERY FIRST SERIAL KILLER WITH A SPEECH IMPEDIMENT.
JOURNALIST
I UNDERSTAND THAT SUSAN ALFARO WAS YOUR LAST VICTIM. AND AT LEAST ACCORDING TO PROSECUTORS – SHE WAS MERELY ONE OF DOZENS. MR. CHAVEZ, JUST HOW MANY LIVES DID YOU TAKE BEFORE YOU WERE CAUGHT?
(YES, WITH A SPEECH IMPEDIMENT) CHAVEZ
TWO, THREE, MAYBE FOUR DOZEN.
JOURNALIST
AND YOUR METHODS?
CHAVEZ
MY PREFERENCE WAS DECAPITATION. BUT I ALSO STABBED AND SHOT WHEN IT WAS CONVENIENT. I REALLY HAD NO PREFERENCE. I PRETTY MUCH IMPROVISED AS I WENT.
CHAVEZ LAUGHS LIKE “ELMER FUDD”.
CHAVEZ
SO – MR. JOURNALIST – DO I INSPIRE FEAR IN YOU?
JOURNALIST
WHY I’M UTTERLY TERRIFIED.
CHAVEZ
BECAUSE I AM A MANLY BEAST AND I WOULD LIKE TO EAT YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN – AND YOUR DOG AND CAT AND YOUR PET RABBIT, WALTER!
CHILD NARRATOR
NOW WHAT? HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHAT OUR LIMITATIONS ARE TECHNOLOGICALLY, SCIENTIFICALLY? WHAT WILL HAPPEN ONCE WE (MANKIND) REACH THAT PIVOTAL ERA IN OUR GROWTH? A PERIOD IN WHICH THERE ARE MORE AND MORE QUESTIONS AND QUITE SIMPLY – NO MORE ANSWERS OR SOLUTIONS??? WILL WE EVER ENCOUNTER A SCIENTIFIC OR TECHNOLOGICAL BARRIER??? OR WILL WE BE ABLE TO CONTINUE TO SOLVE COMPLEX SEEMINGLY UNACHIEVABLE PROBLEMS?
AN EVER EVOLVING MIX OF VIRUSES, BACTERIA AND DRUG RESISTANT INSECTS WILL KEEP PHARMACEUTICAL AND THEIR BRILLIANT RESEARCH SCIENTISTS WHO WILL BE PREOCCUPIED WITH THE DAUNTING (AND I BELIEVE PERPETUAL) TASK OF KEEPING THESE DIMINUTIVE BUT ALL TOO OFTEN LETHAL “PESTS”IN CHECK.
THEN THERE’S OUR CHALLENGE TO MEET OUR ENERGY NEEDS THROUGH THE TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESSION AND THE HOPEFUL EVENTUAL DEVELOPMENT OF FUSION REACTORS.
AND EVENTUALLY – DOWN THE ROAD (MERELY DECADES ) WE WILL HAVE CREATED BOTH MECHANICAL AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES THAT ARE SO SMALL AND SO SOPHISTICATED THAT ALL WEÕLL HAVE TO DO IS TO SPEAK TO THEM AND ALL OUR NEEDS WILL BE TAKEN CARE OF DATA OR WORD PROCESSING, MAINTAINING LIGHT, WATER AND NUTRITION FOR YOUR INDOOR AND OR OUTDOOR GARDENS, TO MECHANICAL REDUNDANT SYSTEMS THAT WILL POSSESS BOTH HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE – PERMITTING THEM TO NOT ONLY SELF-DIAGNOSE – BUT TO REPAIR ANYTHING FROM MODERN COMBUSTION ENGINES TO WASHING MACHINES AND ELECTRONICS. – EVEN ERUDITE PHYSICIANS WILL BE PUSHED INTO OBSOLESCENCE DUE TO THE MERGENCE OF ELECTRONICS AND AUTOMATION.
CONSEQUENTLY, THEY (MODERN MACHINES) WILL EVENTUALLY BE IMBUED WITH AFFLATUS. AND MANKIND WILL TRANSMOGRIFY INTO HEDONISTIC, INDOLENT MATERIALISTIC AMORPHOUS BLOBS. THERE WILL BE THOSE WHO HAVE EVERYTHING AND THOSE WHO HAVE NOTHING.
CHILD NARRATOR
AS FOR SPACE TRAVEL – WE WILL NEVER MATCH OR EXCEED THE SPEED OF LIGHT. SO TRAVELING VERY LONG DISTANCES WILL BE A DAUNTING TASK. .
CHILD NARRATOR
“WHY I DIDN’T BELIEVE IN GOD.”
TO BE BLUNT – WHEN I WAS AN ATHEIST I SIMPLY WEIGHED TWO SUPPOSITIONS. – WHICH IS MORE DIFFICULT TO EXPLAIN – THE EXISTENCE OF A GOD WHO IS SAID TO BE OMNIPRESENT OR UBIQUITOUS, ETERNAL, OMNIPOTENT AND OMNISCIENT OR — THE SEEMINGLY EQUALLY ASTOUNDING PHENOMENON OF A VERY COMPLEX BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED (YET INTRINSICALLY FLAWED) HUMAN BEING???
HOWEVER WHAT SUBVERTED MY BELIEF IN GOD WAS THE SUPPOSED UNERRING INFALLIBLE WORD OF GOD KNOWN AS THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE. A BOOK THAT IS COMPRISED OF PARABLES THAT TRANSFORM GOD INTO A MASS MURDERER AND STILL WORSE — A BABY KILLER!!! THIS TO ME IS NOTHING SHORT OF BLASPHEMY!!! IN ADDITION THE CONTENTS OF THE BIBLE WAS ESOTERIC IN NATURE, DOWNRIGHT UNINTELLIGIBLE AND PERHAPS TO SOME – DOWNRIGHT INEFFABLE! I VIEWED THE BIBLE AS SILLY – AND I BELIEVED THAT EMBRACING IT’S CONTENTS WAS NO LESS PUERILE THAN BELIEVING IN SANTA CLAUS OR THE EASTER BUNNY!
AND EVOLUTION IN THE ABSENCE OF INTELLIGENT DESIGN WAS A CURIOUS PART OF MY UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORLD.
INTERESTING HOW THINGS CHANGE.
SO WHAT’S THE POINT IN ALL OF THIS? NOW THAT I’M A PRETERIST MY NEW BELIEF SYSTEM STILL TAKES A LEAP OF FAITH. MY BELIEF IN CHRIST IS INEXORABLE OR UNYIELDING. I’M HAPPIER, MORE OPTIMISTIC AND CURIOUSLY – NOT AT ALL GUILT-RIDDEN. AND I LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER. (DESPITE MY QUESTIONS AND DOUBTS!).
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WITHOUT GOD – IN THE WANT OR DEFICIENCY OF GOD – INCLUDING THE EMBRACE OF THEOCRATIC PRECEPTS – NIHILISM CAN THRIVE AND AN EXISTENTIALISM CAN BECOME A PREDOMINANT WAY OF LIFE. UNDER THESE BELIEF SYSTEMS THERE ARE NO MORALS, NO GUIDELINES IN WHICH TO RESTRAIN OUR BEHAVIOR. ALL THAT IS IN PLACE IS MANÕS LAW. CONSEQUENTLY, LIFE – ALL FORMS OF LIFE – HAVE LITTLE OR NO VALUE. EVEN MANÕS INTRINSIC WORTH CAN BECOME MARGINALIZED. WHO, WHEN AND WHAT WE DESTROY BECOMES AN INSIGNIFICANT ACT – ACCOUNTABLE TO NO ONE OTHER THAN LAW ENFORCEMENT. ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION AND POLLUTION , EXPLOITATION AND ABUSE OF ANYONE OR ANYTHING IS AGAIN NO LONGER HELD IN CHECK DUE TO A CONSCIENCE AND IS PRESENT IN THE ABSENCE OF ANY EXEGETICAL STANCE . AND IS NO LONGER WITHIN THE PURVIEW OF AN VIRTUOUS PRINCIPLED GOD. AND IN AN APPROXIMATE SEVENTY YEAR LIFE SPAN – WE ARE TO TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE OUR MARK – TO LEAVE SOMETHING BEHIND FOR POSTERITY – THAT OF A LEGACY – WHETHER IT IS CHILDREN TO CARRY ON OUR NAME AND GENETIC MAKE-UP OR INTELLECTUAL PURSUITS THAT LEAVE AN INDELIBLE IMPRINT IN THE FIELDS OF POLITICS, SCIENCE OR MEDICINE THE ABSENCE OF AN ETERNAL SOUL – WHOSE FATE IS PREDICATED UPON BELIEF IN A HIGHER POWER LEAVES THE DOOR OPEN FOR THE ATHEIST -WITH A MENTALITY AND CREDENCE THAT CAN OPEN THE DOOR FOR POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL CATASTROPHE – THE MALTREATMENT AND ABUSE OF PEOPLE AND THE THE IDEOLOGICAL FOUNDATION FOR DESPOTIC RULE – FOR THE TYRANNICAL AUTOCRAT; SELF IMPOSED LEADERSHIP THAT RULES WITH AN IRON FIST AGAIN – IN THE PAUCITY OR COMPLETE LACK OF OF ETHICAL RESTRAINT. SUCH IS THE JUSTIFICATION AND FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNISM. AUTHORITY AND CONTROL THAT IS ABOUT THE SUPPRESSION OF FREE SPEECH, FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION FREEDOM TO PURSUE THE EDICTS PROMULGATED WITHIN OR BY A SPECIFIC RELIGION. COMMUNISM IS (WITH AN UNDERPINNING OF ATHEISM, OF NIHILISM) IS ABOUT SECRET POLICE THAT HINDERS OR REPRESSES DEBATE, POLEMICISM AND ANY POLITICAL STANCE THAT CONFLICTS OR CHALLENGES THE OLIGARCHY. COMMUNISM IS ABOUT QUASHED CREATIVITY OR AFFLATUS – REPRESSION OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT. COMMUNISM DOES NOT REWARD A SUPERIOR WORK ETHIC INVENTIVENESS, OR CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM. EVEN THE EXPRESSION OF ONEÕS SEXUALITY ARE GROUNDS FOR RETRIBUTION COMMUNISM IS ABOUT A PERVASIVE CLIMATE OF MISTRUST, PARANOIA AND BETRAYAL. COMMUNISM IN ALL OF IT’S COMPLEXITY AND ARROGANCE SIMPLY SUCKS.
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THE FOLLOWING HAS THE CAPACITY TO OFFEND. SO BE IT!
ABORTION KILLS INDISCRIMINATELY. IT TAKES LIFE IN THE COMPLETE ABSENCE OF FORETHOUGHT. IT SNUFFS OUT THE LIVES OF THOSE WHO – IF PERMITTED TO LIVE MIGHT BECOME DOCTORS (HEALERS NOT CAPITALISTS) COMPASSIONATE CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEYS, PHILANTHROPISTS OR HUMANITARIANS, NOBEL PRIZE WINNING PEACEMAKERS, WRITERÕS MUSICIANS AND LEADERS; YES EVEN A CONTEMPORARY EINSTEIN! AND ALL OF THIS INSANITY IS OVERSHADOWED BY INFANTICIDE WHICH TAKES PLACE EVEN NOW IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY – IN A VARIETY OF COUNTRIES WHOSE RELIGION AND CULTURE PERMITS THE CASUAL MURDER OF BEAUTIFUL INNOCENT BABY GIRLS – WHO WOULD ALLEGEDLY NOT BE ABLE TO EMULATE THE WORK ETHIC OR ABILITY OF A MALE. AS SUCH THEY ARE SIMPLY DISCARDED. THE LOSS OF LIFE IS VIEWED BY MANY OF A CASUALTY OF THEOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL RELATIVITY. IT IS AN ACT OF INSANITY AND BARBARITY THAT IS SIMPLY PERCEIVED AS AN ACT OF CONVENIENCE. GOD HELP US! MAY (SHOULD) GOD ALMIGHTY FORGIVE US???
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JUST A SIMPLE OBSERVATION: THE CENTER OF THE EARTH POSSESSES THREE COMPONENTS NECESSARY TO BOTH CREATE AND TO MAINTAIN NUCLEAR FUSION – IT HAS PRESSURE; IT HAS HEAT AND IT HAS INSULATION. ALL WE NEED DO IS TO BE ABLE TO ACCESS IT AND TO ADD THE NECESSARY “INGREDIENTS”.
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ATTEMPTING TO UNDERSTAND THE EXTREMELY AFFLUENT AND THEIR INSATIABLE APPETITES – THOSE WHO ARE NOT MOTIVATED OR INSPIRED BY LARGESS: JUST HOW DOES RESIDING IN A HUGE MANSION WHICH IS CLEARLY FAR LARGER THAN IS NEEDED BOLSTER SELF-ESTEEM??? ONCE YOUR WEALTH PROVIDES YOU WITH EVERYTHING YOUÕVE EVER DREAMT OF – WHY DO “YOU” – “THEY” – STILL NEED MORE?
WHAT GOOD IS MONEY OR WEALTH IF IT DOESN’T BENEFIT MANKIND? THERE ARE INFANTS WHO ARE COMBATTING CANCER AS WELL AS A VARIETY OF POTENTIALLY LETHAL DISEASES. IN SLUMS AND BARRIOÕS – SCHOOLS ARE UNDER FUNDED AND DETERIORATING; TEACHERS ARE OVERWORKED OR UNDERSTAFFED, BOOKS ARE OBSOLETE AND COMPUTERS ARE EITHER ANTIQUATED OR SIMPLY NO WHERE TO BE FOUND. CHILDREN HERE IN THE RICHEST MOST SOPHISTICATED COUNTRY IN THE WORLD ARE HOMELESS, LIVING IN POVERTY, SUFFERING FROM HUNGER AND MALNUTRITION. SLUMS AND BARRIOÕS ARE DESPERATELY IN NEED OF PARKS OR PLAYGROUNDS – OF GENTRIFICATION – TO COUNTER ENVIRONMENTS – NEIGHBORHOODS THAT ARE PLAGUED BY CRUMBLING DETERIORATING BUILDINGS, ABANDONED CARS, TRASH HEAPS, SPENT NEEDLES AND HOPELESSNESS; ALL OF WHICH IS PROMPTED BY SOME (PERHAPS MANY) PEOPLE WHO HAVE ABANDONED THEMSELVES, THEIR CHILDREN AND HOPE FOR A BETTER FUTURE.
AS I SEE IT – IF WORKERS WERE PAID A LIVING WAGE – IF THEY RECEIVED ACCESS TO A NURSERY, MEMBERSHIP AT A HEALTH CLUB, A COMFORTABLE WORK ENVIRONMENT TO INCLUDE PLANTS, PLEASANT FRAGRANCES AND MELLOW TRANQUILIZING MUSIC – THE RESULT WOULD BE SYMBIOTIC (AND NOT PARASITIC) CAPITALISM. YES THEY (BUSINESSES AND CORPORATIONS) WOULD EARN LESS PROFITS – BUT THE STANDARD OF LIVING WOULD RISE; THE ECONOMY WOULD BE STRENGTHENED; MORE WORKERS WOULD SIMPLY HAVE MORE DISCRETIONARY SPENDING – TO PURCHASE MORE AND MORE STUFF. WORK PERFORMANCE WOULD VERY LIKELY INCREASE. THE HOUSING MARKET WOULD BEGIN TO RISE; MORE NEW CARS WOULD BE FINANCED; THE PURCHASE OF GOODS AND SERVICES WOULD INCREASE AND OUR NATIONS GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT WOULD RISE AS WELL. WE WOULD IN ESSENCE BECOME ONE BIG COALESCENT HIGHLY FUNCTIONAL FAMILY. AND ALTRUISM AND OR LARGESS WOULD SIMPLY REPLACE THE DEAD-END PURSUIT OF UNNECESSARY ACQUISITIONS. AT SOME POINT THE VERY RICH AND PRIVILEGED WOULD CONCLUDE THAT ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. THAT MONEY IS ONLY AS GOOD AS THE GOOD IT CAN BRING ABOUT.
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SO WHY ARE SO MANY PEOPLE FRIGHTENED OF THE TRUTH? WE MUST FACE THE FACT THAT EACH OF US ARE BOTH CURSED AND BLESSED WITH BOTH POSITIVE ATTRIBUTES AND NEGATIVE HABITS AND PERSONALITY TRAITS. ALL OF US – EACH OF US (ESPECIALLY AND INCLUDING MYSELF) HAVE MADE MANY MISTAKES IN OUR LIVES. WE, AS FRAGILE FLAWED HUMAN BEINGS – ARE PREDISPOSED TO EMBRACE VICES TO INDULGE ONE WAY OR THE OTHER IN MORAL TURPITUDE – CONDUCT THAT IS INHERENT WITHIN OUR NATURES. WE ALL TOO OFTEN BECOME WHAT WE ARE EXPOSED TO AS NAIVE IMPRESSIONABLE CHILDREN. AS IS THE CASE WITH MOLESTATION’S, INCEST OR OTHER PHYSICAL OR PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSES. MOLESTERS CURIOUSLY, SADLY ALL TOO OFTEN MOLEST BACK. CHILDREN WHO ARE BRUTALIZED BY PARENTS OFTEN BECOME VIOLENT WITH THEIR VERY OWN CHILDREN. PARENTS WHO ARE SELF-INDULGENT – WHO SUFFER FROM SATYRIASIS OR NYMPHOMANIA AND OR WHO ENGAGE IN SUBSTANCE ABUSE – ALL TO OFTEN HAVE CHILDREN WHO LATER ON IN LIFE – ARE CURSED WITH THE VERY SAME DEPRAVITIES. AS IÕVE ALREADY STATED MOST OF US ARE LIKE COMPUTER HARDWARE THAT IS AWAITING PROGRAMMING, AND THE VICISSITUDES OF LIFE – BOTH GOOD AND BAD – BECOME AN INTEGRAL PART OF US. CONSEQUENTLY, NEARLY ALL OF US HAVE SKELETONS IN OUR CLOSETS – PAST INDISCRETIONS THAT DISCOURAGE THEM FROM EVER SEEKING OR ASCENDING TO POSITIONS OF LEADERSHIP – FROM POLITICAL OR CIVIC ASPIRATIONS. ALL DESPITE THE FACT THAT THERE ARE POTENTIALLY WONDERFUL LEADERS WHO ARE HAMPERED OR ENCUMBERED WITH THEIR HISTORY OR BACKGROUND. THEY UNDERSTANDABLY REFUSE TO GO THROUGH THE PUBLIC HAZING, THE INVASIVENESS AND IN GENERAL ABUSES INFLICTED BY THE NEWS MEDIA. – PARTICULARLY WHEN YOU ARE DRAGGED THROUGH THE MUD BEFORE AN AUDIENCE OF FRIENDS, NEIGHBORS, RELATIVES AND IMMEDIATE FAMILY MEMBERS. AN INDIGNITY THAT CAN EVEN AFFECT YOUR LIVELIHOOD. SO NOW WHAT? ALL WE HAVE ROOM FOR IN THE POLITICAL ARENA IS FOR “PERFECT FLAWLESS PEOPLE” – WHO HAVE KEPT THEIR ZIPPERS ZIPPED, THEIR MOUTHS CLOSED AND THEIR PREJUDICIAL SENTIMENTS OR OPINIONS TO THEMSELVES. AS I ALREADY STATED – THEY MUST MAINTAIN THE STATUS QUO; ENGAGE IN DEMAGOGUERY AND TO CONCEAL, COVER OR DISGUISE THEIR PERVERSE MACHINATIONS, ICONOCLASTIC OR ANOMIC IDEOLOGY OR VIEWPOINTS. SO? WE REMAIN SADDLED WITH INTELLIGENT OFTEN ERUDITE YET PROSAIC BLAND POLITICIANS WHO UNFORTUNATELY ARE NOT GIFTED WITH AFFLATUS. WHOSE FAULT IS THAT? GO AHEAD AND TAKE AN HONEST LOOK IN THE MIRROR.
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NOW WE’LL TALK A BIT ABOUT BEING COMMANDER AND CHIEF.
FIRST OF ALL YOU MUST HAVE AN EGO THAT IS ENORMOUS, RESILIENT AND DOWNRIGHT BULLETPROOF. SO THAT EVEN THE MOST SCATHING PUBLIC OR POLITICAL ATTACKS ON YOUR CHARACTER OR INTEGRITY – ON YOUR JOB PERFORMANCE – ARE INCAPABLE OF VEXING OR DISCOURAGING YOU. AS SUPREME COMMANDER AND CHIEF YOU MUST HAVE THE ABILITY – THE FACULTY – TO SEND TROOPS INTO BATTLE – KNOWING FROM START TO FINISH – THAT PLUMBERS, CARPENTER, BAKERS AND ELECTRICIANS WHO YOU WILLFULLY AND DELIBERATELY SEND INTO BATTLE WILL RETURN HOME PHYSICALLY OR PSYCHOLOGICALLY INCAPACITATED OR STILL WORSE – THEY WILL ARRIVE HOME IN A COFFIN. YOU, AS SUPREME COMMANDER AND CHIEF – MUST HAVE THE METTLE AND RESOLUTENESS – AND AT LEAST TO A DEGREE – A MENTALITY OR EMOTIONALITY TO UTILIZE OUR EXTENSIVE ARSENAL OD NUCLEAR WEAPONRY!!! AN ACT THAT WOULD UNAVOIDABLY KILL NOT ONLY THE ENEMY- BUT A SUBSTANTIAL CIVILIAN POPULATION COMPRISED OF THE ELDERLY, INFIRM AND HELPLESS.
IN OTHER WORDS – IN THE NAME OF NATIONAL SECURITY – YOU MAY VERY WELL BE FORCED TO COMMIT AN UNMITIGATED ACT OF INSANITY. AND WE, AS HIS CONSTITUENTS DEMAND A PRESIDENT WHO IS A PERSON OF PEACE AND RESTRAINT – OF MATURITY AND INTEGRITY. YET WITH THE CRUCIAL CAVEAT THAT HE OR SHE MUST (UNDER VERY PRECISE CIRCUMSTANCES) BE A BABY KILLER. THE PRESIDENT MUST BE SANE YET INSANE – GOOD YET EVIL – GODLY YET UNGODLY – A WARRIOR YET A DIPLOMAT!!!
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ANN COULTER, STAUNCH CONSERVATIVE, LAWYER AND AUTHOR – SEEMS TO LACK EMPATHY FOR THOSE OF US WHO ARE MIRED IN POVERTY. CERTAINLY SHE MUST REALIZE THAT NOT EVERYONE IS NEARLY AS GIFTED AS SHE IS. SHE DOESN’T SEEM TO UNDERSTAND THAT MANY HARDWORKING PEOPLE WHO ARE HAMPERED – PERHAPS CURSED WITH A COMPLETE ABSENCE OF MOTIVATION – SOMETIMES LIMITED INTELLECT – PEOPLE WHO ARE INCURIOUS AND ALL TOO OFTEN TRAMMELED BY SUBSTANCE ABUSE – THOSE WHO ARE LOST IN THE CYCLE OF POVERTY – WHICH IS PASSED DOWN FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION. – PARENT TO CHILD. INDIVIDUALS WHO TOO ARE VICTIMS OF AN INEPT UNDERFUNDED EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM, WARFARE ON THE STREETS AND GANGS WHO HAVE OVERRUN AND SEIZED ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOODS – TRANSFORMING THEM INTO DRUG AND PROSTITUTE INFESTED PLACES HARBORED BY DENIZENS WREAKING OF IMMORALITY. THOSE WHO SEEK PROFITS, A MATERIALISTIC LIFESTYLE IN THE ABSENCE OF EDUCATION AND OR TOIL. THERE ARE SIMPLY DROVES OF PEOPLE DETERMINED TO SUCCEED – TAKING ILLICIT SHORTCUTS (AND SEEING THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM AS LITTLE MORE THAN AN ALBATROSS) ALL WHILE IN PURSUIT OF NOTORIETY AND STUFF!!! YES IT TAKES A COMMUNITY (NEIGHBORHOOD TO RAISE A CHILD) BUT WHEN THE COMMUNITY IS PRIMARILY DYSFUNCTIONAL AND TAINTED WITH POVERTY, DRUGS, ALCOHOL, SELF-ABANDONMENT, AND THOSE WHO DIURNALLY AND HABITUALLY BREAK LAWS CASUALLY AND IN THE COMPLETE ABSENCE OF CONSCIENCE OR AMBIGUITY. WHILE EMULATING SUCH BEHAVIOR – LIKE ANY OTHER INCULCATION THAT IS REPEATED AGAIN AND AGAIN OVER A LONG PERIOD OF TIME. YOU ALL TOO OFTEN REELECT YOUR ENVIRONMENT – YOU EMULATE WHAT YOU OBSERVE AND YOU PURSUE THAT WHICH IS MOST READILY AVAILABLE. A DESTRUCTIVE NEGATIVE SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESY OFTEN MANIFEST INTO FAILURE – FROM A LAW ABIDING CITIZEN TO A REPROBATE.
AS FOR THE HARD WORKING, DILIGENT MIDDLE CLASS – THESE PEOPLE ARE PRIMARILY COMPRISED OF INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE FAR TOO BUSY SUPPORTING A FAMILY TO ELEVATE THEMSELVES THROUGH EDUCATION OR VOCATIONAL TRAINING. THEY ARE HINDERED BY POOR CREDIT NECESSARY TO OBTAIN STUDENT LOANS, LONG HARD HOURS AT WORK M AND THE FAIRLY COMMONPLACE INABILITY TO HOLD DOWN A TAXING JOB – ALL WHILE CONTENDING WITH DOMESTIC CHORES. THEY TOO CAN CAN FIND THEMSELVES STUCK IN A CYCLE OF ANONYMITY AND IN THE ABSENCE OF ECONOMIC AND OR EDUCATIONAL ASCENDANCY.
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT:
IT STATES IN THE BIBLE THAT ANYONE WHO SEES GOD WILL SURELY DIE. THEY BELIEVE IN THE TRINITY AND AS SUCH GOD THE FATHER, JESUS CHRIST AND THE HOLY SPIRIT ARE ONE. MANY PEOPLE VIEWED CHRIST DURING HIS (GOD’S) SOJOURN HERE ON EARTH. SO WHY (HAVING SEEN – EVEN TOUCHED GOD) DIDN’T THOSE WHO ENCOUNTERED HIM – DIE!?
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THE WAY I SEE IT – THE GREATEST PROBLEMS FACING THIS COUNTRY ARE:
1) AN INEPT EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM.
2) ILLICIT DRUGS
3) LAWS THAT PERMIT GANGS TO THRIVE
4) TWENTY MILLION ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WHO DO NOT PAY TAXES – THAT BURDEN OR ENCUMBER LAW ENFORCEMENT, HOSPITALS, EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, PUBLIC SERVICES
5) A OVERWHELMING NATIONAL DEBT.
IT SEEMS TO ME THAT A MAJORITY OF LEGISLATOR’S HAVE TRIVIALIZED OR IGNORED THE REAL PROBLEMS THAT FACE THIS COUNTRY. THEY DISREGARD THE PROPHYLACTIC APPROACHES THAT HAVE THE CAPACITY TO LITERALLY TRANSFORM SOCIETY, TO REHABILITATE COMMUNITIES – APPROACHES THAT CAN LITERALLY SAVE LIVES. WE CAN PROPERLY EDUCATE OUR CHILDREN NOW OR WE CAN CONTEND WITH THE BURDEN AND THE WASTE OF PRECIOUS LIVES DOWN THE ROAD THROUGH THE INCARCERATION OF THOSE CHILDREN WE HAVE FAILED. YES, SOMEONE HAS TO WIELD A SHOVEL, CLEAN TOILETS OR WASH DISHES – ASSUMING THAT IT’S NOT YOUR CHILD!
I AM REPEATING MYSELF – BUT PERHAPS LAW MAKERS , LEADERS ARE FRIGHTENED OF AN EDUCATED POPULACE? EDUCATION COMBINED WITH WORDS, WITH IDEAS ARE A POWERFUL WEAPON. THEY CAN AND SHOULD TRANSFORM SOCIETY. – ESPECIALLY IN A SOPHISTICATED DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC. AN EDUCATED PEOPLE WILL SEE PAST THE FACADE OF PROPRIETY, THE VISAGE OF UNANIMITY; AND THE AND THE ABSENCE OF NEW REFRESHING IDEAS ALLEGEDLY ESPOUSED BY THE INTELLIGENTSIA, THE AFFLUENT, THE LEADERSHIP; BY THOSE IN THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE WHO COMPLETELY DISREGARD THE CHAOS ON THE STREETS IN IMPOVERISHED NEIGHBORHOODS; THE HOPELESSNESS AND THE RESIGNATION IN A SIGNIFICANT PERCENTAGE OF ITÕS POPULATION AND IN A COUNTRY THAT PURPORTS TO HAVE THE LARGEST ECONOMY IN THE WORLD, AND THE MOST IMPRESSIVE STANDARD OF LIVING. AND THE SUCCESS OF ITÕS DILIGENT HARD WORKING PEOPLE DESPITE ONEÕS RELIGION, ETHNICITY, PLACE OF ORIGIN, LINEAGE, IDEOLOGICAL OR EVEN POLEMICAL AFFILIATION. PEOPLE HERE IN THE GREATEST COUNTRY ON THE PLANET MUST BE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO THRIVE – TRANSFORMING BOTH INTERESTS AND TALENTS INTO A LIFELONG PROFESSION.
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I SUGGEST THAT FEDERALLY OWNED WILDERNESS AREAS SHOULD BE USED TO TO BOTH ISOLATE AND EDUCATE GANG MEMBERS, SEX OFFENDERS AND DANGEROUS FELONS WHO WOULD NORMALLY BE RELEASED. WE SHOULD TEACH THEM ABOUT THE BEAUTY AND GRANDEUR OF WILDERNESS SITES – TEACHING THEM TO HUNT, TO FISH, TO LIVE OFF THE LAND. THEY CAN BUILD THEIR OWN CABINS; INSTALLING PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, PUMP HOUSES AND GENERATORS.
THOSE WHO ARE EVENTUALLY REHABILITATED CAN WORK ALONGSIDE FOREST RANGERS AS WELL AS THE SKILLED PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY CAPABLE RETIREES WHO VOLUNTEER THEIR SERVICES AND THEIR WEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE. THOSE REHABILITATED CAN THEN WORK (UNDER CLOSE SUPERVISION) WITH TROUBLED TEENS!!! THE STUDENTS WILL EVENTUALLY BECOME THE TEACHERS.
TO ALL GANG MEMBERS:
WHETHER YOU BELIEVE IT OR NOT – YOUR LIVES ARE VALUABLE. WEAPONS AND IRE ASIDE – WHEN WE GET TO KNOW ONE ANOTHER – MOST OF YOU – THE MAJORITY OF YOU – ARE PERSONABLE, ARTICULATE AND BRIGHT. MANY OF YOU POSSESS TALENTS AND INTERESTS THAT ARE WAITING TO BE NURTURED AND EXPLORED. YOU COULD, CIRCUMSTANCES WERE RIGHT – BECOME A SKILLED CRAFTSMAN, A DOCTOR, LAWYER, EVEN AN ETHICAL MEMBER OF LAW ENFORCEMENT. ONE ON ONE – WHEN TAKEN TO A PLACE THAT IS FREE FROM POVERTY, STREET VIOLENCE AND ILLICIT DRUGS – YOU CAN BECOME ANYONE OR ANYTHING THAT YOU EVER DREAMT OF. ONE ON ONE YOU HAVE THE CAPACITY TO DISPLAY YOUR HUMANITY. ONE ON ONE – MY FRIEND – YOU CAN BECOME THE PERSON THAT YOU PRESENTLY CONCEAL BEHIND A FACADE OF IMPROPRIETY. ONE ON ONE YOU COULD BE MY FRIEND, MY CONFIDANT, YES EVEN MY BROTHER.
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IF WE TRAVEL DOWN THROUGH HISTORY WHERE IN THE HELL ARE ARE ALL OF THE GREAT THINKERS , INVENTORS, SCIENTIST MUSICIANS, COMPOSER, WRITERÕS AND ARTISTS WHO ARE WOMEN???
BECAUSE OUR CULTURE PERMITTED (EVEN MANDATED) THAT WOMEN REMAIN SUBMISSIVE – IN A STATE OF INFERIORITY – COOKING, CLEANING AND RAISING CHILDREN – WE AS AN INTELLIGENT SPECIES HAVE FOREVER LOST WOMEN WHO COULD HAVE HELPED TO TRANSFORM OUR GLOBAL COMMUNITY!!! CONSEQUENTLY, WE (MEN) ARE GUILTY OF REPRESSION, OF SUBJUGATING TENÕS OF MILLIONS OF WOMEN!!!WOMEN WHO COULD HAVE BECOME PEOPLE WHO LITERALLY COULD HAVE CHANGED HISTORY. IF ALONG THE SPAN OF TIME – WOMEN HAD NOT BEEN HELD BACK – WOULD WE STILL HAVE A HISTORY OF EXTRAORDINARY BRUTALITY, OF GENOCIDE, SLAVERY, OF WARFARE???
AGAIN, JUST HOW WOULD THE WORLD HAVE BEEN ALTERED? WOULD WOMEN HAVE PERMITTED SO MUCH MONEY, SO MANY RESOURCES TO TO BE SQUANDERED ON WARFARE. MONEY AND RESOURCES THAT COULD HAVE BEEN DIRECTED TOWARDS TECHNOLOGICAL AND SCIENTIFIC ADVANCEMENT??? ENOUGH SAID.
WE ESPY EVERYTHING FROM ROAD SIGNS, TO BLACKBOARDS IN CLASSROOMS; AND IT BECOMES EVIDENTLY CLEAR THAT POLITICAL CORRECTNESS HAS RUN AMOK AS DOZENS OF LANGUAGES ARE INCLUDED. TO GUIDE THE DRIVER, TO EDUCATE THE CHILDREN, TO SELL THE PRODUCT OR SERVICE.
A MAN PULLS UP TO A FAST FOOD DRIVE-UP TO ORDER HIS MEAL. HE IS GREETED IN FRENCH, IN SPANISH, IN CHINESE, IN GERMAN, IN RUSSIAN, ON AND ON AND ON…
IT IS THE THAT WE FOCUS OUR ATTENTION ON THE MENU – AGAIN IT IS PRINTED OUT IN DOZENS OF LANGUAGES!
THE DRIVER SHAKES HIS HEAD IN DISBELIEF AND HE DRIVES OFF.
ENOUGH SAID.
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CENSORS ARE PROVIDED A GLIMPSE OF A BARE BREAST. THEY SCREAM AS THEY COVER THEIR EYES.
NEXT THERE ARE SCENES OF VIOLENCE. AND THEY WATCH THIS TIME WITH INDIFFERENCE.
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CENSORS BEGIN BEATING THE HELL OUT OF ONE ANOTHER!
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COULD SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHY THE GREAT MAJORITY OF US ARE SO GUILT-RIDDEN AND CONFLICTED ABOUT OUR SEXUALITY??? AND TO A DEGREE THAT QUITE LITERALLY MAKES US MISERABLE. IS IT MERELY THEOLOGICAL INCULCATION’S AND ADMONITIONS THAT TRANSFORM SO MANY OF US INTO THE PURITANICAL? WHY CAN’T WE ENJOY SUCH AN AMAZING AND BEAUTIFUL GIFT? THAT IS ASSUMING THAT SEX IS NOT AN ADDICTION THAT INTERFERES WITH AND SUBVERTS OUR DAILY LIVES! HOW IS OUR SEXUAL ENJOYMENT ANY DIFFERENT THAN EATING A HIGH FAT HIGH CALORIC PIECE OF CHEESECAKE??? OR LISTENING TO SOOTHING MUSIC; VIEWING A WORK OF ART; RECEIVING A FULL BODY MASSAGE. OR USING IN GENERAL ANY OR ALL OF OUR MIRACULOUS SENSES!!!
USING OUR SENSE OF SIGHT WE CAN ESPY THE MAJESTY OF AN OLD GROWTH FOREST. WITH OUR PERCEPTION OF TASTE WE CAN APPRECIATE AN ECLECTIC MIX OF FOODS IMBUED WITH A VARIETY OF EXOTIC HERBS AND SPICES. USING OUR OLFACTORY SENSES WE CAN APPRECIATE THE INTOXICATING SMELL OF FRESHLY GROUND COFFEE OR OR HOMEMADE FRESHLY BAKED BREAD. WITH OUR SENSE OF HEARING WE CAN MERGE SPIRITUALLY WITH THE GRACE AND SHEAR GENIUS OF MOZART. AND WITH OUR REMARKABLE SENSE OF TOUCH WE CAN EXPERIENCE THE REFRESHING SOOTHING IMMERSION OF A HOT SHOWER, THE UNIFYING ACT OF LOVE MAKING AND OUR UBIQUITOUS EXCEPTIONAL SENSUALITY. WE CAN EXPERIENCE THE THE INHERENT NEED OF SENSUAL EXPRESSION.
WE DEMAND OF THE POPULACE THAT COMPRISE OUR SOCIETY TO RESOLVE DISPUTES WITH MATURITY AND RESTRAINT – TO USE WORDS BOLSTERED BY A CIVIL DEMEANOR. TO USE A DEGREE OF WISDOM; TO COMPROMISE WITH THE GOAL OF RECONCILIATION! YET WE ARE TOOLED AS A COUNTRY WITH WEAPONRY THAT HAS THE DESTRUCTIVE CAPACITY TO DESTROY THE WORLD MANY TIMES OVER! WEAPONRY THE KILLS INDISCRIMINATELY – THAT TAKES THE LIVES OF THE CRIPPLES OR HELPLESS, INNOCENT MEN, WOMEN AND ESPECIALLY OUR CHILDREN. WE DEMAND ÒDUE PROCESSÓ FOR THOSE CHARGED WITH A CRIME. AND WE SPARE NO EXPENSE WHEN WE WHEN WE BOTH PROSECUTE AND DEFEND THE ACCUSED. YET WHEN WE WAGE WAR WE KILL OUR ADVERSARIES WHO ARE USUALLY IN A CONFLICT DUE TO THE FAILURE OF THEIR POLITICIANS, THEIR DIPLOMATS, THEIR LEADERSHIP. WE KILL PLUMBERS, CARPENTERS, BAKERS AND JANITORS. RARELY MEMBERS MEMBERS OF THE INTELLIGENTSIA, THE AFFLUENT, THE ERUDITE OR THE POWERFUL! WE CLAIM TO BE A SOCIETY WHO BOASTS POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND INDIVIDUAL EQUANIMITY. YET THE REALITY IS THAT IT IT THE LOWER AND MIDDLE-CLASS PROLETARIAT THAT BEAR THE BRUNT ON THE BLOODY BATTLEFIELDS. THE RICH, THE POWERFUL, THE ERUDITE INVARIABLY STAND ON THE SIDELINES AS OBSERVERS – MANY OF WHOM WILL PROFIT SIGNIFICANTLY AS MEMBERS OF THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX. BUSINESSES, CORPORATIONS THAT THRIVE AMIDST THE MURDER, THE MAYHEM AND MUTILATION OF THE FORLORN WARRIOR. WARRIORS WHO ARE FATHERS, SONS, WIVES, UNCLES, HUSBANDS AND DAUGHTERS. AND AS I HAVE ALREADY STATED SUCCINCTLY – PLUMBERS, CARPENTERS AND BAKERS.
AND IT MAKES ME WONDER WHETHER OR NOT THE AD HOC OBJECTIVE IS TO STRENGTHEN OUR ECONOMIC VIABILITY; TO EMPLOY THE UNEMPLOYABLE; TO LESSEN OR DIMINISH OUR POPULATION OF MINORITIES. A SUPER POWER WHO FACES A HIGH RATE OF UNEMPLOYMENT, POVERTY, CRIMINALITY AND CRUMBLING INFRASTRUCTURE. SADLY, WE SQUANDER LITERALLY HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS ANNUALLY ON WEAPONRY – INTELLECTUAL ASSETS AND MANPOWER – AND COMPARATIVELY VERY VERY LITTLE ON PRESERVING PEACE. MAY GOD FORGIVE US.
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SO NOW WHAT? ENJOY THE MOMENT; LIVE MINUTE TO MINUTE, HOUR TO HOUR. LIVE AS IF IS WAS YOUR FINAL MOMENT HERE ON EARTH. APPRECIATE EVERY MOUTHFUL OF FOOD; EVERY AUDITORY, VISUAL, OLFACTORY OR SENSUAL EXPERIENCE. WHATEVER YOU DO – DO IT WITH ENTHUSIASM AND PURPOSE. BECAUSE WHETHER YOU WASH A DISH, CLEAN A TOILET OR DIG A DITCH – YOU ARE CONTRIBUTING TO MANKIND’S GROWTH AND PROGRESSION. LOOK AT, EXPERIENCE THE COOL REFRESHING ASPECTS OF A RAINSTORM. BE RENEWED AT THE BEAUTY OF A WINTER’S SNOWFALL; THE SOUND AND SIGHT OF A FLOWING STREAM; MARVEL AT THE CYCLES OF NATURE; THE SMELL AND FRAGRANCE OF DECAYING LEAFS. IN ESSENCE BECOME AN INTEGRAL PART OF NATURE; BLEND, MERGE, COALESCE. AND NEVER FORGET NO MATTER HOW DIFFICULT LIFE BECOMES – THAT EVERYTHING IS COMPRISED OF STAR DUST. THIS HELPS TO KEEP YOU GROUNDED AND IN AWE OF YOUR EXISTENCE – AND FAR LESS LIKELY TO SWEAT THE LITTLE STUFF. TEACH THESE THINGS TO YOUR CHILDREN AND THEY WILL MOST ASSUREDLY LIFE WELL. ABOVE ALL NEVER BE IMPATIENT OF THE PASSAGE OF TIME. FOR LIFE IS TRULY MIRACULOUS. BEING ALIVE AND HAVING A PART AS A MEMBER OF THE HUMAN RACE IS AN HONOR AND A MIRACLE. TAKE EVERY CHALLENGE AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO GROW. FOR IF YOU SURVIVE – YOU WILL BE BLESSED WITH EMPATHY, SYMPATHY AND A FAR GREATER APPRECIATION FOR OUR EPHEMERAL EXISTENCE. FOR WHAT DOESNÕT KILL US DOES INDEED MAKE US STRONGER. IF YOU ARE FACING DEATH – LOOK IT STRAIGHT IN THE EYE WITH ACCEPTANCE AND COURAGE. FOR I TRULY BELIEVE THAT THERE IS A BENEVOLENT HIGHER POWER. AND A CONTINUATION AND A NEW CHAPTER THAT AWAITS EACH OF US. LIVE AND LOVE; LIVE AND FORGIVE; LIVE AND ACCOMPLISH. BUILD, SOLVE AND INVENT – GROW AND EVOLVE AND NEVER STOP LEARNING. EMBRACE A REVERENCE FOR ALL FORMS OF LIFE. ABOVE ALL – BE AT ONE WITH BOTH NATURE AND GOD!
The Man Who Lost His Mind - Essays and Manifestos by the Iconoclast 