Living in 12th Century America.
As raging, lunatic homophobes among us discredit the ability of Elena Kagan to sit on our highest court because she may be a lesbian soft baller…US Senator James Inhofe claims soldiers in battle won’t fight as hard if their trench mates are gay.
Barnstorming idiot Sarah Palin vows “mama grizzlies” will “take this country back” in November.
Our environment perishes… amid loss of lives and livelihoods…and BP CEO Tony Hayward has the arrogance to swear that the Gulf oil spill is “relatively tiny” compared to the “very big ocean”…
…while president Obama asserts offshore oil drilling will continue to be part of America’s “overall energy strategy”.
Rampant stupidity, greed and ignorance engulf us.
Which takes us to San Francisco Chronicle film critic Mick LaSalle’s review this morning of the new Robin Hood movie. Considering some of our current national mess, several of LaSalle’s lines practically leapt off the page as we read them.
Describing the general posture of existence during the 12th century…LaSalle writes “Mainly we see harshness and ugliness. The common people are stupid and the wealthy are evil schemers, and even the good guys smell to high heaven”.
Hello contemporary homophobes, tea-baggers, corporate CEO’s and masquerading politicos!
Then, analyzing the role of the medevil Robin Hood, LaSalle continues…“Russell Crowe…is utterly believable as the unconcious standard-bearer of the future, the select man through whom humanity might make some small, desperately needed advance.”
A scary line if you drop B. Obama’s name into the beginning of that sentence.
The calendar flies forward…yet human corruption, ignorance and greed stands still.
We might as well be living in Robin Hood’s 12th century.