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In Defense of the Past
A YouTube culture and movie critic called Critical Drinker published the definitive defense of freedom and the preservation of art. Worse than burning books and banning movies, we can now alter them to mean what we need, rather than what the artists originally intended:
I don’t know if it was the combination of the movie clips and his inspiring rhetoric, but he brought a tear to my eye.
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Spot on and very nicely done. It was fun to see clips from so many movies I’ve seen, but terrible to consider how they may be changed so that future watchers might never see the same story that I saw. They already aren’t reading the same delightful childhood books that I read. What a diminished world they are creating.
Pretty good piece. I wonder how many of those “creatives” are prepared to sacrifice their royalty revenue on the altar of political correctness once their previous work is re-examined by the current batch of cultural critics.
Gotta love the Critical Drinker.
It strikes me that “the past,” used to be incontrovertible, and pretty much analogous to Churchill’s “truth,” and could be substituted for the word in his famous quote:
These days, it’s more like:
Yup, watched this last night. Drinker always has great speeches.
I was going to post this myself. This is probably the most moving thing Critical Drinker ever did – he’s normally a sarcastic comic reviewer.
I’ve been listening to the Drinker for a while. This is both a change of pace from his usual (hilarious) delivery and quite good.
I liked it so much I put it on two different threads.
The irony is that the actor who intones the inspirational words at the end is, himself, at the forefront of cancel culture ideology. His words ring hollow. Then again, he is an actor.
How is he at the forefront of cancel culture? Whom has the Critical Drinker called to be cancelled?
The Drinker is also a well established fiction author. His commentary on the legacy of Disney’s Star Wars was pure poetry. It might be fun to have him on a podcast. Loved this one too.
That was friggin’ awesome. Thank you.
Do yourself a favor and scroll to 7:03 in the video and watch. The actor in question at the end of the video will reveal himself to you. Hint: it is not “the Critical Drinker.” Then, consider if you might wish to revise your comment.
Yeah, it’s sad watching Picard’s speech at the end given what Stewart, Kurtzman, and Goldsman have done to Picard’s character.
Sorry I misunderstood you. I thought the video as whole was very inspirational. Patrick Stewart’s dialogue from the TNG episode “The Drumhead” (season 4 episode 15) one of the best episodes of any science fiction tv series. Didnt really register with me as being especially remarkable in the context of this video. (other than being the longest, and the only one with audio)
I popped on to Netflix the other night, in the dvd section, and GWTW was featured in the carousel thing across the top of the screen.
Yes, me too. Its also now trending as a torrent download.
Skip to the 27:00 time stamp.
So, what will they do with something like this (warning some bad words and lots of racism, but that’s kind of the whole point)
Spike Lee is a member of the club. He can literally do no wrong. Not only could he shoot someone on 5 Ave, he could possibly even drown a girl in his car in a river.
Critical Drinker can use the words and yet not favor the actor’s most recent woke project — he trashed Season 1 of “Picard” in a review back in March:
Yes the Critical Drinker is completely correct in both cases. He’s not judging the actor hes judging the act. Do you think Patrick Stewart believes one word of his speech (which first aired in 1991!) do you think he even remembers it? He’s an actor whose reading dialogue – he could be reading off the phone book for all he cares – as long as someone is willing to pay him to read it, it doesnt matter. He trashes season 1 of “Picard” because it deserved it. It was 10 hours of character assassination. Patrick Stewart must’ve really hated Picard to have gleefully participated in the destruction of his own character.
The actor delivered the lines he was handed. That’s what actors are supposed to do. The writer has nothing to be ashamed of. The actor, on the other hand …
Blacks should laugh at some of the ways they used to be portrayed in movies, as opposed to violent outrage. Failure to embrace the negative aspects of history means remaining blind to how far they’ve come . . .
Exactly! Instead of being upset that Aunt Jemima started out as a stereotypical black mammy complete with a headscarf, be proud of the fact that she’s now (or was) a beautiful, stylish black woman you could look around and see anywhere. To me, that definitely seems like progress to be proud of.