Freaky Friday 2 — Speaking of Stupid Girls…
Sunny Hostin, our favorite blonde-ish Black Pantheress, is wrong on a couple counts here. First, like the rest of The View panel, she fails to realize that most of us ‘right-wingers’ aren’t at all outraged by Christopher Nolan’s casting in his Odyssey movie. Talented as he may be, he’s also a Brit, and they’re a nation that has gone so far down the Woke hole that actuaries are predicting a majority Muslim population in the U.K. by 2030. Nolan will also have been intensely aware that the Brit film industry has crippled itself by insisting on 30 percent nonwhite casting in BBC productions, regardless of the bizarre casting anomalies that such a rule makes inevitable. In remaking Greek mythology he knows he has license to curry critical favor while boosting the free PR of a project that is, in the cold light of day, an old and cinematically familiar story not likely to sound like a must-see pic to most. His cheerful acceptance of this and his calm defense of an absurd unconfirmed possibility are basically just funny to the right-wing crowd. Another opportunity to watch the left cut its own throat in self-righteous box office failure.
In other words, we’re out here laughing, Sunny.
Second Hostin mistake. No, there’s no chance that Helen of Troy might have been an Ethiopian via Egyptian influence in the ancient world. This one’s a woman’s mistake. The Trojan War is a Greek cautionary tale on the incredibly ancient theme of gullible girls getting mixed up with bad boys. ItK’s actually a Greek family story set in the Greek town of Sparta. All the kings and queens and gods and other ancient CGI is just like our own CGI, fancy dress visuals for a routine plot. (There are only seven plots, you know.) Menelaus has a beautiful young wife named Helen, who gets involved with an out-of-town bad boy named Paris. The two of them run away together to Troy, whether by Paris’s abduction or Helen’s choice we never really learn. Therefore, she has to be rescued in order to save her honor and that of her cuckolded husband. Result? Trojan War. Greeks against Troy (i.e., Hittites of Asia Minor). There was a war, prior to the invention of history. A scuffle between two rival nations who were not under the sway of Egypt at the time, per the archaeological record, but thriving independently and bumping into one another for reasons of geographical proximity no doubt.
In the Homeric poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, actually historical politics and cultures don’t figure in at all. It’s about the heroic age men and women who got snarked up in the love triangle of Menelaus, Helen, and Paris. Odysseus, Achilles, Patroclus, and company have their subplots in this sprawling, overproduced soap opera.
If Sunny Hostin knew the history of the Homeric tradition and its foundational role in the development of all western literature, she’d also discover that the entire romantic tradition which has created sentimental love stories through the millennia ultimately spring from this one story. Indeed, without such a literary tradition, the whole concept of love as romance rather than arranged contracts for perpetuating family legacies might never have been created. Might never have made it through tales of Camelot and the fantasies of the sisters Brontë to Hollywood, where love inevitably conquers all as it almost never does in reality when blood is shed in copious quantities.
What does the bad boy story look like when you tear it out of the comforting bed of romantic love? Well, here’s a story that might help acquaint Sunny Hostin with what accurate history really does to woke delusions about utopian archetypes of equality with respect to sex, race, and class.
Here’s how Hollywood turned the history of Bonnie and Clyde into a tragic love story:
The Arthur Penn movie with Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty fed the narrative that in the cruel Depression era, Bonnie and Clyde were Robin Hood-type rebels against the rich and powerful who oppressed the poor. Their love for one another was something like an exoneration.
The Robin Hood narrative was a complete fabrication. They were ruthless killers
who spent their loot on themselves. Clyde was a ‘Bad Boy’ of the worst kind.
Bonnie became like Clyde through the psychological pathology
called ‘folie à deux.’ They would never have stopped.
From time to time, actual photos and footage of the gundown and its aftermath
have been published. The worst bits, however, are always withheld.
Like not showing dead bodies at the Twin Towers..
Hollywood recently tried to mend some of the older movie’s misrepresentations. The shooters
were real men, risking life and limb to bring mass murderers to justice.
Peaceable arrest was never an option. Worst bits still withheld.
The worst bit. She was laid out just this way as hundreds of gawkers streamed
by her and the equally mutilated body of Clyde.
…Or the mural planned for public display in her memory…
They don’t want us to see it, because they don’t want to look at the price of their own lies.
The legions of woke women, like Sunny Hostin, who routinely rewrite both history and current events to romanticize their own fantasies about what a just society looks like, are the Bonnie’s of our time. They airbrush away the crimes of bad boy rapists, killers, and hijackers because white men are somehow oppressing them. And they celebrate the creation of new lies whose sole purpose is to justify the telling of lies in a good cause. What they don’t realize is the queers of both sexes who riot on behalf of Palestinians will one day, if Sharia comes to their neighborhood, become the worst bits of Bonnie Parker themselves. And they will never be able to escape the doom of those who have been warned, “those who forget the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it.”
The Hostins defend Socialism, Marxism, and Muslim pirates in Minnesota. They would do well to remember that the first ones to die in the totalitarian state they desire will be the ones who believed the lies too adamantly.
No, History does not tell us Helen of Troy could have been an Ethiope. History tells us that the slaughters in the Iliad and the Odyssey are the wages of old-fashioned sin.
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