Post by xbones on Oct 17, 2009 15:41:59 GMT -5
A"brilliant" star wars parody of 9/11? Clever at best.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV7Ha3VDbzE
The "college" people who made this and the 18-19 year olds who jizz all over this in a love fest were 10-11 years old (read - pre-pubescent snot-nosed little shits) when the towers fell. Unless they lost a parent/loved one in it, all they really had was a child's skewed, uneducated, and personally detached perspective of an actual attack on American soil that killed people that we ACTUALLY KNEW! Not some remote time in history.
It's ironic that the scumbags who say, "Relax... it was 8 years ago dude!" are the same scumbags who keep saying that the crusades of 800 years ago are still relevant in a discussion about extremist animosity towards this nation. 8 vs 800? How does THAT make sense?
I know how I feel about the video. The star wars references are dead on. The bartender getting them to buy another round is on target. There is a parallel to 9/11 in the destruction of the Death Star, but why make the connection? Just for a cheap laugh?
And I even understand dark humor, but when the subversive becomes mainstream, and everything becomes trivial, then where is the sense of what is important? Nihilism follows. ANd I feel we are all jaded enough.
When GWB went hunting for the weapons of mass destruction in his tasteless press conference, people were angry. I give him no quarter on that. But I feel this video is not much different. You may froth that he was the president and that makes his the more egregious fault... I submit that the huge number of youtube respondants who love this video scare me all the more, because they are the mob. They are the ones that will not answer the call if we need them. It has become mainstream to not care much for the next guy as long as one gets a laugh out of his misery.
Now I have posted the VW ad. But in that instance, it was slamming Teddy's questionable actions the night Mary Joe K died. It was not making fun of the woman in the car. Yes, the mockery of the situation is, in retrospect, insenstive to her and her family, but it was at least some justice for a woman who could not defend herself. And they ain't reading this board. I did not post anything funny about Teddy's cancer or death, or anything like that.
This video has reached a larger audience who did lose people. ANd the sentiment is that the US is the evil empire and the terrorists are the rebel heroes. Hardy har har! I'm yucking it up!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV7Ha3VDbzE
The "college" people who made this and the 18-19 year olds who jizz all over this in a love fest were 10-11 years old (read - pre-pubescent snot-nosed little shits) when the towers fell. Unless they lost a parent/loved one in it, all they really had was a child's skewed, uneducated, and personally detached perspective of an actual attack on American soil that killed people that we ACTUALLY KNEW! Not some remote time in history.
It's ironic that the scumbags who say, "Relax... it was 8 years ago dude!" are the same scumbags who keep saying that the crusades of 800 years ago are still relevant in a discussion about extremist animosity towards this nation. 8 vs 800? How does THAT make sense?
I know how I feel about the video. The star wars references are dead on. The bartender getting them to buy another round is on target. There is a parallel to 9/11 in the destruction of the Death Star, but why make the connection? Just for a cheap laugh?
And I even understand dark humor, but when the subversive becomes mainstream, and everything becomes trivial, then where is the sense of what is important? Nihilism follows. ANd I feel we are all jaded enough.
When GWB went hunting for the weapons of mass destruction in his tasteless press conference, people were angry. I give him no quarter on that. But I feel this video is not much different. You may froth that he was the president and that makes his the more egregious fault... I submit that the huge number of youtube respondants who love this video scare me all the more, because they are the mob. They are the ones that will not answer the call if we need them. It has become mainstream to not care much for the next guy as long as one gets a laugh out of his misery.
Now I have posted the VW ad. But in that instance, it was slamming Teddy's questionable actions the night Mary Joe K died. It was not making fun of the woman in the car. Yes, the mockery of the situation is, in retrospect, insenstive to her and her family, but it was at least some justice for a woman who could not defend herself. And they ain't reading this board. I did not post anything funny about Teddy's cancer or death, or anything like that.
This video has reached a larger audience who did lose people. ANd the sentiment is that the US is the evil empire and the terrorists are the rebel heroes. Hardy har har! I'm yucking it up!
