It's just as well
that the Iron Man 3 trailer is uninspiring. Because I won't be
seeing any more Avengers movies, and I'll bet I'm not the only one.
Life is short, so
when I saw this characteristically mildly clever but infinitely smug,
zombie-themed anti-Romney clip by Joss Whedon, you know what I did? I crossed all the future Avengers movies off
my to-see list (yeah, I have one).
That's right, all
the way through Ant-Man in 2015 (that's six movies). Plus the SHIELD TV series. Oh, I'm sure they'll be fine, but again,
life's too short, and I don't plan to spend even a moment of it wondering
whether Whedon will use the Cosmic Cube as a metaphor for clean, renewable
green energy or what have you. Plenty of
other films out there. This frees up
almost half my moviegoing schedule.
You might want to
make a note of that, Marvel. And
Disney. And ABC.
It's important to
show one's willingness to make sacrifices once in a while, and we non-leftists
put up with an awful lot of crap in the culture fueled by ignorance like
Whedon's about basic economics. Until we
decide we've had enough.
Joss, learn some economics
to go with your teenage snark. A little
sarcasm is no substitute for a lot of wisdom.
It never was, much as I've tried to tolerate the ever-increasing snark,
snideness, Maher-ism, Gawkering, "negging," and all-around
pro-jerkiness of the culture. Just a
tiny, tiny dash of humility, by contrast -- unpopular a virtue as that is these
days -- might cause you to question prevailing pro-government, anti-market
narratives.
And you know the
real irony here? I'm not even voting for
Romney. I'm voting for Gary
Johnson. I just think you're an
idiot. And a disgrace to the
anti-government principles implicit in Firefly.
UPDATE: On Twitter, my Whedon boycott can now be noted or retweeted using the hashtag #WheDONT.
UPDATE: On Twitter, my Whedon boycott can now be noted or retweeted using the hashtag #WheDONT.
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