Inherit The Spin
Written by Pistol Pete Tuesday, 07 April 2009 00:00
I was fortunate to watch again tonight, 'Inherit The Wind'. Besides being an excellent movie with excellent acting, it hit home. As I watched, it became abundantly clear the parallels of the two sides involved and the present political divide of not only this nation, but of Western nations in general. The difference is, they are totally reversed as to how you might think they would be.
In the story, there are the fanatical religous zealots who go to the verge of overt violence against anyone who dares to think differently from them. In the real world, we have the fanatical Left who go to actual violence against anyone who dares to think differently from them. In the story, all who oppose the mandated beliefs are attacked as heritics and ridiculed as mental incompentants, hell-bent on thwarting the Holy mission set forth. In the real world, all those who oppose the various wacked out theories of global warming and global assimilation are destroyed in place, lives are ruined and people thrown into poverty. But it goes much further than that.
Mathew Brady represented the modern Left and their prophet. His fanaticism was as with Obama, with his deliberately self-blinded followers raising their torches in unison to smite the unbelievers of the one true prophet. They force the public monster into the tower and set it on fire to purify the delusional's soul.
Henry Drummond represented the people who choose to think for themselves, not as slaves to the herd mentality. He tried over and over again to bring common sense to the court room, finally letting the prophet hang himself on his self-righteous pectards.
Bertrem Cates was the 'every man', just trying to enlighten his and other's world through unconventual knowlege without interferrence, but hounded by the herd to conform, lest he be damned to Hell for his individuality, privacy, and rights.
Reverend Brown was the Media, stirring the masses to a frenzy to exact vengence on all who would dare question the word of non-negotiable and non-substantiated accounts of concocted reality.
This movie, made in 1960, is a showcase for today. The Obots in every field decry those who who disagree with them. The non-believers are persecuted for being thinkers and not giving in to the False Prophet. The non-believers are called racists, and fascists, and Nazis to make them hated among the populous and perceived as outcasts of society.
'Inherit The Wind' is a time capsule of our lives today.
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