Saturday, July 02, 2005
War of the Worlds
Do not, under any circumstances, mistake Stephen Spielberg’s latest cinema thriller, War of the Worlds, with a mere science fiction yarn mixed in with a dose of Dr. Phil. This important film is a metaphor for the past five years of relentless domination by the Bush administration and its’ merciless neo-conservative tripods.
Ordinary working people start the day as if there were no sinister forces at work against us, and at first the brutal attack looks like a mere thunderstorm. Human beings are prone to deny the seriousness of any situation. Soon the monsters rise from the earth, symbolic of the Enrons, Worldcons and Halliburtons, whose plague of corporate greed sucks the lifeblood out of decent folks just trying to get by.
The forces of evil are powerful and employ long snake-like appendages to peer into every little corner of personal lives. This is representative of the Patriot Act, which has also degraded the private lives of citizens without regard to the sacred constitutional protections and God-given rights common to all Americans.
Even Amtrak becomes a fiery victim of the powerful forces that control transportation policy as it is symbolically reduced to a blazing train to nowhere.
The Bush machines of destruction would have been victorious except for one crucial thing. Like the tripod invaders that rise from the earth, they are totally removed and alien from the struggles and real world dilemmas that have hardened and taught the kind and generous folks who inhabit the United States.
In the end, the power of good working family people triumph because they know how to exist in the free market economy where you take your chances and occasionally get a little dirt under your fingernails. The monolithic GOP machines of state sponsored terror just couldn’t take it, and collapsed under their own greedy bloated excessive weight.
(Gotcha’)
Ordinary working people start the day as if there were no sinister forces at work against us, and at first the brutal attack looks like a mere thunderstorm. Human beings are prone to deny the seriousness of any situation. Soon the monsters rise from the earth, symbolic of the Enrons, Worldcons and Halliburtons, whose plague of corporate greed sucks the lifeblood out of decent folks just trying to get by.
The forces of evil are powerful and employ long snake-like appendages to peer into every little corner of personal lives. This is representative of the Patriot Act, which has also degraded the private lives of citizens without regard to the sacred constitutional protections and God-given rights common to all Americans.
Even Amtrak becomes a fiery victim of the powerful forces that control transportation policy as it is symbolically reduced to a blazing train to nowhere.
The Bush machines of destruction would have been victorious except for one crucial thing. Like the tripod invaders that rise from the earth, they are totally removed and alien from the struggles and real world dilemmas that have hardened and taught the kind and generous folks who inhabit the United States.
In the end, the power of good working family people triumph because they know how to exist in the free market economy where you take your chances and occasionally get a little dirt under your fingernails. The monolithic GOP machines of state sponsored terror just couldn’t take it, and collapsed under their own greedy bloated excessive weight.
(Gotcha’)
