Monday, December 30, 2013
Validate?
NPR was running some standard commie shit about The Imperative Requirement For Die-Versity In The Cinemaw. Quoted a black woman: "I want to see my life as a Black Wyymmyyn validated in the movies."
What a fantastically stupid idea. Nobody wants to see their own life validated by entertainment. Obviously mass media like The Cinemaw have to speak in a language that most folks understand. Shakespeare and Chaucer won't do for modern audiences. But beyond that, the whole point of entertainment is to see someone else's fucking life, for fuck's sake. And ideally we want to see their life de-validated, not validated. We want to see tyrants and tycoons slipping on a banana peel (comedy) or we want to see tyrants and tycoons knifed by ambitious underlings (tragedy).
I don't want my life validated. I like the way my narrow little life runs. Took many years of work and sacrifice to reach the point of zero drama, and this is exactly how I want it.
But a life with zero drama would be excruciatingly boring for anyone else to watch, and completely pointless for me to watch.
¶ 7:44 AM 
