Saturday, February 23, 2008
The Most Anti-democracy Event of the Year
You know, I'm usually a politics guy, and I really don't write about anything else, but there has been something going on over the past few years that just irks me: The Oscars. The problem? The movies that win are always stupid! It's not just me who thinks this. I'm actually in the majority. The movies that the Oscars nominate are always rejected by the general public. You see, the Oscars rely on a select few insiders to choose who wins. The people also vote. We vote with our money. Yet when the Oscars are presented, Hollywood seems like it goes out of its way to show their disagreement. For example, the five movies that were nominated for best picture this year were ranked 19, 41, 54, 55, and 81 respectively, in box office gross. Meanwhile, the movie that the people chose as the best movie, Spiderman-3, was totally rejected. There Will Be Blood, which was the favorite to win last time I checked, made less than a tenth of what Spiderman-3. Juno, the highest grossing of the Best Picture nominees, is being heralded as the "fan favorite," despite the fact that five movies made over twice what it made. The Oscars, once a great awards show, are quickly becoming irrelevant as they grow more and more out of step with the mainstream American movie-goer. Over the past few years, I haven't watched the Oscars and I don't plan to this year. Who wants to watch a bunch of elitists pat themselves on the back while wearing million-dollar clothes? Not me.
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Why do you blither on about Democracy? Democracy is stupid. It is a system in which everybody (including the idiotic whack-jobs and ex-cons) decide on every little thing. This type of system usually leads to totalitarianism. The U.S.A. is not and never was a Democracy. We are a Republic. A Republic system is one in which all the people (rather than making the decisions themselves) decide who would be the most capable person/people in a matter, and let them/him decide on a course of action. This system is something like "electing the king", which the U.S. was... until the left started trying to model us after Europe. Europian countries, which are basicly police states, have for a century been 'Democratic'. By the way, the party names are not accidental, as most people assume. A Republic is the kind of government God established with the Judges in ancient Israel, with the exception of it being God deciding the leaders rather than the people. A Democracy is what they had in Russia before it went Communist, Germany right before Hitler, Italy before Mussolini, and so on and so forth.
Wow, I didn't expect you to go crazy like that. First, you completely missed the point. I was simply saying that these morons who choose the Oscar winners never choose the movies that the people like. Secondly, I know that we're a republic and not a democracy, but most people (including me I admit) use the terms interchangeably. I realize that it is an incorrect colloquialism, but it wouldn't quite sound right to say that the Oscars were anti-republican or something like that.
Why can't we call the Oscars anti-Republican? It would be accurate, given that the awards are given to the most stupid, leftist, anti-moral people and movies available. And what do you mean "crazy"? Long...but not crazy.
If I had referred to the Oscars as anti-Republican, people would have assumed that I meant the political party rather than the philosophy, which is not what I intended to convey in the post. Though you're right, such a post on the left-leaning Oscars would be accurate.
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