I have recently come to a conclusion: Human beings are out
of new ideas. Everywhere around us we see the same
things rehashed, reworked and rewritten all in the attempt
for something “new”.
In fashion, we see the same trends being recycled. Right
now the “in” thing is clothes and designs from the 70’s.
Before that it was from the 60’s. As a child of the 80’s, I
can’t wait until the next decade when those styles come
back in style — on second thought, maybe I CAN! I’m not
sure so I want to look at all the “Hairsprayed Big-Hair”!
We recently saw the movie Gothika. It was about a woman
whose husband had committed murder and the ghost of
the victim haunted the wife until she figured out the crime.
Gee, we saw this same movie a couple years ago — it was
called What Lies Beneath. Over and over again you see
remakes and sequels. Not long ago they had Halloween
part 10 ( Jason X). Part 10?!
As I type this, I see on the TV they have a new Peter Pan
movie coming out. Is this REALLY necessary? Doing a
quick look on Internet Movie Data Base (www.imdb.com),
I see there have already been at least 4 TV series and 9
previous movies all about Peter Pan — why not just call
this “new” movie Peter Pan X?! Talk about lack of new
ideas!
And now here we are gearing up for the new election
season. I bet this trend is going to continue. We will once
again see the politicians bring out the same rehashed ideas:
Family Values, Abortion, School Prayer and our favorite
saying “God Bless America”. How many times are we
going to be subjected to that one?!
I think what this really tells us is most Americans like
repetition. They don’t like to think about new concepts.
They don’t want to discuss current events and how we can
make things better — they are happy with the same old
ideas. I guess that’s why I look forward so much to our
monthly CSS meetings. At least I still have my Freethinking
friends to offer me shelter from this mindless storm!
Now I just can’t wait until Wednesday when Lord of the
Rings part 3 comes out! Hmmm...
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