New Charles Darwin film is 'too controversial' for religious American audiences

[Peter Lemkin]

When I read things like this I have to check myself that I am really reading what I think I see. While I am at it I have to remind myself that it is indeed 2009 and that I haven't slipped into a Tardis and come out during the Salem Witch Trials or something. I can only wonder at the future of the USA when things like this occur. What willful ignorance and stupidity abounds there.

And not uncommonly that ignorance and stupidity takes hold at the top.

...and has had a tendency to spread - disease-like from shore-to-shinning-shore all over the globe.... Get your Tardis ready to get the **** out of 'here'! There is quite a large crop of hard-hitting controversial political films about to be released between now and the New Year. With the nutty-right all whipped-up against anything they perceive as 'dangerous and subversive', expect to see theater burnings and more.....so much for 'free speech'. It disappeared from the MSM long ago. As for ignorance......it does have some avid adherents there. Witch Trials...now there is a 'good idea'....but don't mention it too loudly, or some may take you up on that! But, whooh!, we haven't cornered the market entirely on stupidity....it seems to be inherent in the species.

Yes, it is unfair to cast these aspersions on all people who are born in the US. I have met many lovely and sane people from there. I certainly know that we have our own fair share, perhaps more, of stupidity here. But there really does seem to be such an generous abundance of the stuff overflowing over there. Or perhaps people there are more likely to make idiots of themselves in front of cameras and microphone and such while the Brits and the rest of the commonwealth do this in the privacy of our own homes. Where it belongs. So, while stupidity is definitely a universal human trait it seems it is not distributed evenly.

This movie should not be a 'hard-hitting controversial political film' any more than a biographical movie about James Watt, Galileo, Mendelev, Marie Curie or Da Vinci. That's the wonder.

I am looking forward to the hard-hitting controversial political films that are coming up like 'Crude' and 'The Cove' and 'Capitalism - a Love Story' and 'American Casino' Lots to look forward to there.

We do, however, often really honor stupidity! - even make them President, or put in other positions of power and influence. In some circles in the U.S. being an intellectual, professor or having a college degree [even just being a self-taught intellectual or have innate intelligence] is considered a definite negative. There is a great new book on the dumbing-down of the American Public....name of book escapes me at moment...will locate....I'm too stupid this morning to think. :proud: