Thread: Reality Checks: Plain, Simple, and from the Hip

I have thought long and hard on starting one of these here, and I will try and put a post a week at least to start. These are my ramblings, but they are also points that I pertain to things that just should not just reach out and grab one, but also cause one to really look at some things. Perhaps they are only for me to think on, but perhaps they may also cause others to grasp just how messed up some things are in our society..... I leave that to the individual reader.... The Killer Serial A Cult Classic Analyzed Fast My first thought on here is about a movie that I saw for the first time a long time ago. To set the idea, let me give a short version of the events. I was about fifteen, it was an exceptionally early Saturday morning as in like three or four am I had tried everything to go to sleep, and I finally turned on the television. After flipping through the channels, I came to rest on the station 38 in my area. Then it was a independent station who got a lot of viewer ship for being one of the first Fox affiliates and for their movie marathons. They were going onto the last movie before their kids block of cartoons something that was a big thing in my generation, and it was a movie titled Serial . This is as I have seen it many times since a absolutely hilarious story about an entire community located in Marin County, California. This town, across the Bay from San Francisco, who, with the exception of one adult man and a preteen boy, are totally sold out and brainwashed into the whatever feels good do it because it leads to humanistic enlightenment garbage of the 1970s. Everything from therapeutic adultery, peer-group dynamic explorations, psychobabble therapy sessions, etc. that were in up until the beginning of the 1980s Yuppie culture and everyone started to gain back their minds was parodied and skewered. I laughed so hard I nearly wet myself. Years later, I would learn that the movie is based on The Serial A Year in the Life of Marin County , a book that was in fact inspired according to people who actually lived in Marin County, California at the time and the author Cyra McFadden by real people and actual events. While suspension of disbelief is always a mainstay of dealing with even historical fiction... In this case NONE is needed. My mother, uncle, and a number of their friends can attest to the reality of how screwed up the counter culture of the early 1960s through to the very early 1980's really was. From the character of Martha whose idea of happy marriage lasted at most two months to Leonard the therapist who jogs to stay healthy then snorts cocaine to finish his morning routine afterward, from Carol, the hot-bodied woman who cannot stay in any kind of relationship because of her odious personality to Stokeley, Martha's own preteen son who has, with one exception, the firmest grasp of reality of any of the adults in the entire area, it is a blatant indictment of how completely asinine the entire period was... and it really explains how empty-headed those same people were so that other absurd ideas such as anything Oprah said would be able to take the places left behind. I apologize only that all of this is true, and not just from one person's point of view. The state that California is in right now is proof itself.