On today’s entry, we shall ramble like crazy
While walking home minutes ago, I was thinking about how Bugs Bunny’s like the best cartoon character ever. Put him in whatever situation, he’ll make you laugh. It’s the personality, really. Did you know that Aeon Flux was patterned after him? Amazing, right. Aeon’s the same character wherever she is.
And I suddenly remembered how I hate Elmo. Come on dude, thanks for usurping Grover’s position as the main star of the show. Grover’s really cool—flexible, genuinely funny, rude at times. Elmo’s just red. You know all this psychological crap about how red things attract attention and stuff? I think Elmo hypnotized kids just so he’ll be credible flying around with his suspiciously tiny voice. Whateber, ‘Super Grover’ is the shat.
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Last time, I was talking about the changing notions of the hero. I’d like to add how the Middle Ages hero is external and all, and now the hero’s more of the internal type. And the Christian hero’s interesting, no? Sacrifice, non-violence, the whole speech-before-attack spiel. Again, I’m gonna mention Beowulf. He says things like, “The gods ordered me to kill! I am doing this for them!” Now when you think about it, George Bush is acting like Beowulf.
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A while ago in class, Sir Flores was talking about how back then, war was brutal and all. Like, in
Braveheart. Before the real battle, the two leaders meet and chat about rules, final terms, etc. Same thing with Napoleon, and the whole drums, marching, and flags sequence. (Remember
Kingdom of Heaven? No? Um, OK. In that movie, there’s a lot of stuff being raised about religious tolerance. COME ON. 12th Century? Respect towards other religions? No way. Back then, you were either a Christian or a Muslim, and Jerusalem was both your place. The whole tolerance thing—a very modern 21st century mind set, right?)
Anyway, what Sir Flores pointed out was that now, war’s dehumanized. All started with WW I (in truth, a Euro War)—bombs, planes, patayan. Like in
A Very Long Engagement, one enjoys a cute romance story, and sees just how brutal the war was—people stuck in barbed wire trenches, dying there after a few hours. Then we got soldiers mutilating themselves just so they could go home. Very interesting and funny at the same time. This really affected the Western psyche. Where’s the glory in being disintegrated by a tank?
