Bad Blood
Biden promising smooth transition
The MSM made a big deal out of the Hunter pardon, then less and less for his other assaults
on the justice system, and, amazingly saw no irony in the presidential awards given to Liz
Cheney, Hillary Clinton, and George Soros. Questions about the motive and results of the shivs?
Yes, there’s bad blood. Temperatures rising and all that. How do we put this in perspective and keep our heads without just sitting there and taking it?
Make no mistake. Our popular culture is all about bad blood, not just politically but in practically every realm of modern life and entertainment, even romance for heaven’s sake.
BAD BLOOD GIRL-STYLE
Torching the ones you don’t get along with is SEXY!
Inciting bad blood in us is the whole point. Why would that be? First they don’t think we can take it, like all their miserable metrosex boyfriends who just apologize and keep coming back for more woundings. What they don’t realize is that the boys are perfectly capable of bad blood too. They just channel it, practice it, and wait for the day when they can make it real. Deadly real real in the locker corridor.
BAD BLOOD BOY-STYLE
No need to watch it all. If you require more on the premise, here’s the trailer.
Just to be inclusive, as required nowadays, it isn’t only boys and girls who have (and revel in) bad blood. Think this checks another box sufficiently for our purposes.
BAD BLOOD LGBTQ-STYLE
The TGs, it should be noted, have also been very good at killing people.
Back to the question of what’s the point? Why stir the pot? Why go to all the trouble if you don’t expect it to make much difference in the outcome? This is where the Brits have a lot of experience and opinions.
BAD BLOOD BRIT-STYLE
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Dead on about the failures of the RINO way that cause rebels to respond
to Bad Blood baiting. The reasoning is perfect. “Because we can.”
In general, this kind of logic appeals to small men, more appealing the smaller they are.
BECAUSE THEY CAN
And who out there is smaller than a baby?
There’s also a sense in this young century that there’s no real risk involved in taking endless cheap shots against those you hate or despise. To many of the provocateurs it’s all just a show, a staged and orchestrated bit of theater like the J6 Congressional Committee. Or like this:
BAD BLOOD NEO-AMERICAN STYLE
It’s got everything — Nasty women, sexy duds, cool props, carefully rehearsed
violence, gender conflict, loads of posturing, fixed refereeing, and cheering fans.
That’s a useful example in two ways. It’s all fake, as so much is anymore and therefore what we expect, and it’s also the the way they think we all are, crude, tattooed, and cheered on by a gullible audience they’ve never met and don’t want to. As opposed to their more subtle staging:
Sniff, Sniff, O What a Release It Is…
What gets left out is that most of us are more 20th than 21st Century in our basic outlook. How much of the WWE audience is actually kids whose parents recognize harmless show business when they see it. Having a sense of humor helps. That’s why most of the adults in the real world know that Bad Blood is a tricky thing. Where humor has traditionally kept us honest.
We can laugh. Even at ourselves. That’s our real ace in the hole.
Back when movies could deal with serious topics without being specific vehicles for political propaganda, even popular Hollywood productions could make us feel deep emotional truths. Whatever the temptation, for example, murder is a serious action to contemplate, no matter how justified it may seem to the aggrieved. We’ve all seen a lint Eastwood gun down movie villains for decades, but as he grew older and matured in his thinking, he was moved to do a shadow remake of John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. The tagline of the Ford version was “When people come to prefer the legend, print the legend.” In Clint’s version, there is no tagline. There is cold-blooded murder which will become the stuff of press legend, with all the bloody ugliness of the facts discarded on the cutting room floor. Which profits no one but the newspapers.
The big moment is not the big shootout. It’s the decision to take the last shot.
I’ve seen and admired all the great John Ford westerns. But the western I regard as the greatest ever made is The Outlaw Josey Wales. Which covers a vast panorama of American history, from the Civil War to the westward migration of so many different pioneers, as well as the ambiguous aftermath of the Indian Wars. The major characters are not saints, no social problems are solved for the nation, and the usual array of deadly frailties is on display, including vengeance, greed, intolerance, and violence. But the resolution of the many conflicts represented in the rolling narrative is the making of peace between two notoriously violent men whose values go beyond victory.
I’m a Yuuuge fan of Ten Bears.
There is a similar peace struck between Josey Wales and his Javert-like (or Lt. Gerard-like, if you prefer) pursuer. I’m not preaching at anyone here. I’m advocating that we all find a way to keep our heads in the turbulent times before us. The decisions before us are vitally important to us and our descendants. How we achieve and maintain a healthy emotional equilibrium throughout the changes to come is everyone’s individual responsibility. I don’t have the answers. All I can offer is my own perspective on how to frame the questions. Thank you for reading this far.
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