i don’t pretend to be knowledgeable in the area of movie reviews, but took the time last night to watch a movie as a light-hearted escape from life’s recent heavies - if only to hear some classic rock and a generation celebrating its emergence ...
it was a fun film with all the camp and corniness usually associated with a 60’s music flick [ie., the monkees, yellow submarine, etc] with one exception - the vindictiveness and mean-spirited exploits of a few individuals from the ‘establishment’ ...
prejudicial judgement wasn’t amusing then, and it appeared even more distasteful now ...
coincidentally, my reason for indulging myself was to escape similar rhetoric televised from the floor of the American House Senate where vicious attacks were being launched against heath care reform by a right-wing political machine comprised of the same mean-spirited, self interested, tight-assed bureaucrats that were represented in the movie ...
in both instances, hope survived and the promise of change was kept alive - but not without damage ...
the consequence of ugliness is enduring - for a generation of idealistic romantics and the individuals who try to keep the dreams of equality, fairness, and hope for a better future alive ...
I’m afraid President Obama’s target was substantially increased by his leadership in defeating the stranglehold that corporate america has on the public, and by doing so will have to circumnavigate a tidal wave of vindictive behavior - this was supposed to be his Waterloo ...
yesterday’s vote in Washington was liberating and historic, and as House Speaker Palossi indicated; the health care reform legislation that was passed will spawn a new era in entrepreneurship in America ...
