The Fifth Glorious Mystery

Mary, when your heart is joyful, My Heart is joyful and your heart is joyful again. Mary, when your heart is pierced, My Heart is pierced and your heart is pierced again. Mary, when My Heart is joyful, Your Heart is joyful and My Heart is joyful again. Mary, when My Heart is pierced, Your Heart is pierced and My Heart is pierced again.And do you, Mary, accept this crown, the crown of Sorrow? Yes. And do you, Mary, accept this selfsame crown, the crown of Joy? Yes. We crown you Queen of Heaven and Earth.

Hollywood and the Great Hypocrisy

Hollywood can hardly be called a sanctuary for honesty but it is a definite sanctuary for hypocrisy. Actually, it’s not just Hollywood but the entire film making industry that represents the quintessential embodiment of hypocrisy. Check out any discussion, history of, talk about, etc. re film making and you will find two recurring ideas: 1) YOU, filmmaker, can be an agent of change. 2) In order to be an agent of change, you must challenge “existing norms”. And therein lies the problem.

Turns out “existing norms” is a euphemism for certain existing moral norms. This, of itself, is not necessarily bad thing. However, when combined with the selectivity exercised by the film industry in what “existing norms” should be challenged, it is not only a bad thing but quintessentially hypocritical. A simple but glaring example: Dinesh D’Souza’s documentary 2016: Obama’s America received virtually no support while Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story was well promoted. (The good news is despite this, the public voted with their dollars on both these movies. The bad news is that the film making industry doesn’t care.) A single example obviously doesn’t convey the pervasiveness of the liberal bias but you already know that. The point is, film schools follow this dictum and so virtually every budding filmmaker out there is going to “change the world” according to liberal dictums. Any other change is, well, a non event. The film making industry doesn’t REALLY want counter-cultural movies unless they are the “right”, er, left counter culture.

It is NOT Possible…

…to consider yourself a rational person and vote Democratic. Prime example: Andrew Cuomo recently signed into “law” the “right” to kill babies moments before birth. No rational person can argue that there is only a “clump of cells” or whatever other characterization/rationalization that allows a non-baby moments before birth but a real baby because of birth. This single event is so momentous that even should the Democratic Party be “perfect” in all other respects, no rational person can vote for a party that advocates murder.