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Saul Luizaga wrote:
> Chambers wrote:
>> I mean, the kind of willful distortion of Asimov's writings that I
>> portrayed is analogous to how this movie is portraying 2012. It's not
>> remotely accurate, but *they claim it is*.
>
> Oh I see, yeah, is kinda of disappointing to see a movie with that
> background, but at least will be fun :)
>
>> I don't mind fun movies that admit they're having fun. I get
>> seriously annoyed by movies which claim a certain credibility that
>> they lack (re: Disney for more examples of this).
>
> I don't get seriously annoyed by people anymore, if they're not prone to
> reason then why try? they don't want to understand you, is "their truth"
> better than yours, when truth is only 1, like love, either you're in or
> out of it and I find true the saying: "Sit peacefully at the river side
> and you'll see the corps of your enemy pass floating by", so my advice:
> don't bitter your life in vane, consequences are on their way....
>
> Cheers.
The reason people care is due to the unfortunate fact that, if you sit
peacefully at the river, you may find yourself floating by, because,
quite frankly, the sort of people that reject reality so drastically
consider **you**, as someone that embraces it, a more serious enemy than
the guy next door, who simply has a different crazy idea. This has been
described by one blogger as "cranks flock together", and he gives a
clear example of two loonies, both of which consider modern medicine to
be an evil conspiracy, and work *together* to fight against each others
windmill enemies, while having completely contradictory, and apposing,
opinions on what it should be replaced with.
Or, to put it another way, for people that think the world is going to
end, it doesn't matter to them if it ends next week, last tuesday, but
no one noticed, or 2012, it only matter that it is **going** to end, and
that you don't believe them. **All** of them consider you, me, and
anyone else that says end of world prophecies are BS to be enemies, and
if they get annoyed enough, they will screw all of us, then worry about
which one had the right date. Same with all other forms of crankism.
As long as they have one single point of agreement, they will fight
tooth and nail against that *enemy*, real or imaginary, and only *then*
bother to attack each other. The Art of War presumes that all opponents
are intelligent, practical, well read, militarily competent, people. An
idiot will simply show up and cut your head off, while their neighbors
burn down their own castle, because they consider your, sitting one the
bank of the river, as some sort of horrible offense, so great that all
other concerns not only can be, but must be, ignored until your are
dead. This only gets worse if you have 3-4 such fools, all convinced you
are a huge threat, and all of them clueless about their own failure to
deal with the reality of their situations. You get 3-4 burning castles,
and 3-4 morons standing over your corpse, oblivious to their own
disasters, saying, "Hah! That will show you!"
Mind, modern fools are less dangerous to life and limb, but instead,
especially in the US, it generates a wave of clueless
anti-intellectualism, wacko ideas, etc., that make it look like the
worst examples of ancient Fakir, patent medicines, spiritualist
ectoplasms, religious idiocy, and irrational fear. If you are into
selling fake "left behind" packs for holy soldiers to keep for when they
need to continue the fight, should they fail to get raptured, or a
billion other stupidities, great! If you plan to fix education, fix the
environment (in a way that isn't gibberish from enviro-wackos), fix the
economy, fix health care, or fix anything that *matters*, then there are
100 million idiots that think the useless stuff is just as important as
the important stuff, because they literally can't tell the difference,
and a certain percentage of the truly lost, who argue, convincingly, for
far too many people, that we don't *need* to fix some of this stuff,
especially education, but rather that we would be "better off" if people
where stupider, by making sure most of this idiocy was taught as
"alternatives" to reality, in schools.
Lets put it this way. Someone in ancient times writes something about
sacrificing virgins, which lands in the lap of two influential people,
one in a society that doesn't do such things, the other in one where its
common place. Which one would **you** be more worried about reading it?
That is *almost* how bad things have gotten in the US. The level of pure
crazy is so bad that you can show people in other countries some of the
stuff that is believed as "common" ideas by some politicians and
important people here, and the disconnect from reality involve leaves
them either concluding that the US is one giant insane asylum, or that
it has to be some sort of joke, and no one can possibly believe it. Why?
Because such people stand on street corners in places like Australia,
collecting random change, not running for a frakking Senate seat, like
they do in the US.
If this movie was released in some other country, it would be seen as
harmless. Here... You could, literally, make a movie that proclaimed
that the world ended last Tuesday, and find some loony group some place
with 400-500 members, who would say, "See! We have been saying this all
along." The world ending in 2012? That isn't fiction to many people. Its
so damn mainstream that you can find right wing Christians (and I have
met them), as well as even some liberal ones (also met some of them),
that think its proof of the even more overblown, made up, and tacked on
later, gibberish in their own Bible. There are probably tens of
thousands in the US that, if they don't actually 100% believe it, never
the less are freaked out, and at least fearful, that its actually true.
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