America Needs To Stop Coddling Her Parasite Classes

Recently, organized Liberalism’s official newspaper of record, The New York Times, did an audited survey of global cinema’s 500 major directors, writers, actors, producers, and critics, entitled The 100 Best Movies of the 21^st Century.  (i.e. only those released since January 1, 2000)

Included among the titles were a number of my favorites like Gravity, Michael Clayton, Gladiator, Interstellar, and others, with their #1 pick being “PARASITE”, a 2019 South Korean black comedy, which also won the American Oscar for Best Picture that year.

Back in my college days at Chapel Hill, I had a professor who fervently believed as our technocratic future unfolded, the big themes of history would reveal themselves via collective expressions of art, architecture, music, fiction etc, i.e. human creativity.  One of his standard maxims was “the cinema was the dominant art form of the 20^th Century”.  And indeed it was, whether that continues through the next 100 years remains to be seen.

But I do find it was curious, re: the NY Times survey, all these creative people named an Asian movie, with English subtitles, about true, out-and-out parasites (I’ve seen the film; it’s excellent), as #1.

Here’s my segway:  My son, a senior engineer in Silicon Valley, married into a large, distinguished Asian family; they are spread out in Taipei, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Singapore.  We have been fortunate enough to visit them on extended trips the last decade, and also tour and marvel at the vast development of Asia. And as the NYT’s top movie pick theme would hint at, Asians basically despise human parasites.

This isn’t a political statement (well, it probably is to doo-doo brained American Liberals), but more a broad cultural observation.  It is the culmination of centuries of environmental, cultural, political forces, and a kind of deeply religious ‘Asian stoicism’, rolled into one.   Moreover, it’s perfectly suited to a technological future, where we’d say in my best Carolina Celtic redneckese, “if you don’t get off your ass, study practical stuff, work and save, you’ll get dumped in the sh*tter, without remorse.” 

That’s what’s coming for America; a giant “Oh Crap!” moment.  Our national security elites know it, too.  This is not something they can defeat with one or more separate countries in warfare; this is a successful cultural response to a dramatically fast changing, technological zeitgeist.  And it’s broadly based, too.  Not just in a handful of countries, but one expanding mightily worldwide.

Globally, as the current Piscean Era rolls over and dies, this is there to take its place.

It spells the end of America, if we continue to gullibly fall for the government-funded predations of what amounts to our cancerous parasite classes; who have deliberately expanded the political envelop of historic grievances and constitutional rights, to include a whole panoply of wacky new rights & grievances, artificially manufactured vis-à-vis wacky court decisions.  All of which are parasitic, sentimentally Piscean, and terribly unproductive economically.

In 1941, the great American publisher, Henry Luce, an adopted Arizonan, born & reared in China, and buried in South Carolina, coined the term, “the American Century”, to describe mankind’s 20^th.  If we cannot contain and dramatically reduce our parasite classes, especially their insidious influence at all levels of government, we’re truly screwed.  And should Luce return in today’s 21^st century, at this stage of the game, he would surely say it belonged to Eurasia.

Sellers is a Southpark, Roosevelt-Republican (TR) living in incorporated Oro Valley; his background is federal technology commercialization, and administers the private group, Tucson E-P-T News, on Facebook