Vamping lightly on a meme from Wretchard, Riddick matters.
I always thought that Chronicles of Riddick was a better movie than the critics gave it credit for. And loyal Cobb fans know I'm a big fan of action flicks. I've never really thought about it before, but perhaps my attraction to these films is, in spite of critical derision, an example of my advanced moral capacities. What if it turns out that one can reliably spot a Leftist by his repulsion to righteous violence? I'm going to keep that in mind, especially around those films by my favorite action stars, Willis, Diesel, Statham and Washington.
Wretchard suggests that Liberals advance the Necroism of infinite moral recourse and seek the purging flames of the moral positivism of the now. It's really totalitarianism any way you slice it, and I'd be more likely to assign this ideology to Jihadists, but it fits. How many liberal sentiments have been qualified by "It's 1997 and we should know better"? Just about every one they uttered in 1997.
Interestingly enough, I was just invited to one of the top groups in MySpace, which I promptly ignored, but then found one called 'People of Color who Luv People of Color'. Basically, I'm not taking any POC stuff seriously until the NAACP can show me leadership that 'looks like America', read never. But what was interesting about that site was its cutesy South Park-like revisionist historical cartoon about the murderous paranoia of white people. It will make intelligent people laugh and puke at the same time; bring a hanky.
As I dig deeper (yes, reversing myself) on the current controversy over the words of Pope Benedict, I am finding the same lack of historical perspective (and disciplined research) abetting what those obsessing over guilt associated with something they really want no part of. I would hope other people see the ridiculous irony of people 'concerned' over America's goodwill in the world who all but abdicate any constructive criticism of our geopolitics in our conflict with Jihadis. They are ready to say Bush is an idiot who must apologize, and likewise demand apologies from the Pope. Everybody owes everybody an apology it seems. Doesn't anyone know what they mean and mean what they say? I think Benedict meant what he said and I'm disappointed in those who would seek to exploit the implications of their false interpretations of his words.
It has been some time now that I have been interested in the possibilities provided by a more disciplined and enlightened Christianity than that which occurs in the powerpoints of contemporary ministers. But that doesn't change my enjoyment of more casual metaphors like action flicks and their various dipictions of gallantry and heroism. I find it quite amusing that the Chronicles of Riddick illustrates this particular failing.
BTW, the mentor of Batman in Batman Begins, was also of this stripe.
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