(09-10-2020 11:46 AM)CardinalJim Wrote: Most of the new movies I enjoy didn’t qualify for Oscar consideration before these asinine rules. They certainly won’t qualify now.
Better yet let’s cheapen the accomplishments of actors like Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman and Halle Berry by making it a requirement to give minority actors something they couldn’t earn on their own.
I know you know this, but everyone needs to see what participation trophies lead to, and why nobody should be permitted to think they deserve anything for just showing up.
Life owes no one anything. There is no guarantee of TV and cable, a car, a house, or your next meal. If somebody demands that for free it is still coming from someone who earned it.
The whole concept of socialism is alien to nature. The only mercy life shows any of us is through God and yet Socialists deny the only entity which by its nature encourages mercy and compassion. My point is Socialists can't acknowledge mercy and compassion because they use hate and the accusation that somehow someone who has because they worked is privileged and they can't acknowledge that person's humanity or rights or they might feel guilty when they steal from them or kill them.
If anyone ever doubted that Hollywood was the Devil's workshop there's no hiding it now.
I asked a Muslim client of mine one time why so many Muslims saw the U.S. as the great Satan. He said it was because we were the #1 suppliers to the world of pornography, alcohol, drugs of all kinds, and weapons, and that we were the #1 country pushing for no sexual boundaries violating God's law.
I have to admit he had a point. I don't agree with Islam, but he had a point. Gandhi once said that Christianity was the greatest religion ever, but he had met so few who practiced it.
Hollywood is what the world thinks America is. I told my Muslim client that in response. He said yes, and I know many decent Americans, but your children are learning from Hollywood, beware!
