Re: Trailer: The Men Who Stare at Goats
Hollywood is sociologically inbred.
Once accepted within the working fold, they believe they attain an aristocratic status within their own social circles, holding themselves isolated and aloof from the common masses. They equate their status with a form of societal superiority, and truly believe their true value to society is not in their art but in their activism, within which they cloak themselves as if it were a mantle of merit.
In fact, it is simply a veil of delusion, fed by existential extremism, and Utopian fallacy.
Where their art is concerned, there is true merit; and attempting to boycott the art as a statement of idiology is admirable but misplaced. The key point to understand is that boycotts don't work. The act of stoic self denial leaves no mark on its intended recipient, and simply serves as an incentive spurring them on. I would not give them that satisfaction.
As my Father taught me, the the most genuinely effective act of revenge consists of simply living one's own life well. I'll take their art and employ it to entertain me in its intended manner.
The rest, I simply ignore. In ignoring it, I give it the degree of reverence it deserves, which is precisely none. Their activist antics are simply an excercise in impotence where I'm concerned.
As my Father also taught, they can only hurt me if I let them. They may try, but by my own choice, their arrows miss their mark.
I think that's entirely appropriate.
Greg
