Deciding Whether to Boycott: Taking on World Issues

In a flash of Hollywood brilliance, someone came up with the idea to remake 1951's The Day the Earth Stood Still. This marks another low point of the Great Inspiration Void, which is going on in this the post-Lord Of The Rings era. Somebody obviously thought that the message was still relevant. Aliens telling us that if we don't stop fussing and fighting, they will destroy us. Where does that leave the free will for us human kind? What is peace when it only exists at the barrel of a gun? Or a phaser. Or whatever. If the remake isn't already a bad idea to start with (like 9 times out of 10), then they'll have to find a way to really update the message, to appease today's audience which is supposed to be not so naïve as a '50s audience. Or are we? Should we boycott this film because we don't want to see another inferior remake, or because the message of the film shows that the makers think we are retarded? I'm torn apart by this great dilemma. Again.

First there was the decision to select Beijing as the next host to the Olympics. It was kind of nice, since it was a sincere attempt to thwarp this western cultfest right into the far east. Let's colonize! Yet again. And they received it wholeheartedly. Globalization hurrah! Then this bunch of smart people started to rethink: can't we use this phenomenon to put on the Chinese our own norms and values? How about them human rights? I'm so sure that we are right and they are wrong, that I really feel they should do as we say. How can we honor them by letting them host a sports event, and not put it to use as political pressure? We are still mafia, are we not? We should give them little and then ask a lot! We should not think of fraternization, we should fight them from the moral high ground. And then squash them. Squash them!

Then there were the protests in Tibet. The majority of our retarded populations weren't even aware that this struggle has been going on for 60 years or more now. Even long before China got awarded the Olympics. Tibetans might be happy with you, mister Spielberg, but mister Scorsese did not need any Olympics to go make Kundun. And we did not go and see it. Now that they started dying, thinking protest might help, how much responsible are the ones who initiated the protest? Know what? Let's put our western indoctrinations upon the rest of the world! We had to suffer for it. So let them also.

Right now miss Ayaan Hirsi Ali is struggling like Hillary Clinton to get some money together. One has to really beg today to become someone tomorrow. Miss Hirsi Ali though is trying to gather funds for her own personal protection. She took upon her the great task of liberating the Muslim female, and now she has trouble to understand that nobody is willing to protect her. We are soooo naïve. Don't we know how much these Muslims hate us? If our women will not wear djallabah's within the next ten years, they will come to get them and trade them off into slavery and prostitution. And rightfully so. Didn't they warn us? For once, you the Americans and the French seem to agree: it's a crying shame the way we Dutch dropped Hirsi Ali. We would not pay for her permanent protection. But that shameful cry didn't last far beyond the point when Hirsi Ali held up her hand to you and to the French too, did it.

See, it's easy to be the good guy. When you only have to speak of it. It's easy to be a hero in your own eyes. But miss Hirsi Ali ain't no hero in the eyes of the majority in this land. Just in the eyes of a bunch of outdated feminists who are very glad that islam introduces a new old crisis into our society, which gives them reason to be. Miss Hirsi Ali came to the Netherlands a refugee. We tried to receive her, like many political refugees. But just the difference there, between political and economical, on its own creates great complexities. She was a fast learner and speaks the language fluently today. She had an amazing flight going up in Dutch society. She seemed extremely PC [politically correct]. At least, she was very attractive to many PC politicians.

She became a member of the socialist PvdA-party, but later switched to the liberal VVD. Naïve when need be, how could she have known Dutch political goings on, being a newcomer here. That's why her career as a people's representative in our national parliament was cut short. There was some confusion surrounding her story, specifically what her real name is, and how she got to the Netherlands. There really is just one common factor as far as we got to know her: she's received with open arms, and when she leaves, she leaves everybody in turmoil. And of course she will always leaves. There's always something better going on over there. Over where? Well, right now that seems to be your good ole U S of A. It seems your country's got a lot more potential than mine. At least in the eyes of a self-liberated Somalian woman. Well, as far as I'm concerned: good riddance. You can have her. See if you wanna keep her. I just hope nobody is stupid enough to go kill her or try to, transforming her into a martyr. At this point it might as well be done by a Muslim extremist as well as an extreme Muslim hater. We've already got our share of fake martyrs.

If we are so naively blind to these fanatic Muslims, then what is Hirsi Ali? Is she so much traumatized by her own personal history, that she keeps her eye on these evil Muslims, while allowing her back turned to us, a sign of trust, not realizing how much we can not be trusted? Well, for someone who has so well learned to firstly look out for number one, no matter how much of a victim, then yes: we will drop her, like a hot potato. And not pick her up again. We don't need no more trouble. And we do keep an eye on all you troublemakers. So if you want to go step on each other over there in Arabia, because you're so much outraged over a non-existing film, that could eventually only disappoint, then go right ahead. Say what you want to say, but I'm just amazed that this man Wilders became a world celebrity, like Hirsi Ali. Like Theo van Gogh, whose films are currently being remade in America. Now look what you've done, you stupid juvenile murderer! (Why not use the proceedings of these ventures to pay for miss Hirsi Ali's protection while staying in the US? She's already got protection when she's over here.) Nobody kill Wilders now, you hear.

Like many films of today: high expectations leave great disappointments. Credit where it's not due, I guess. We're a real country now. I mean seriously. They know us, man. They've heard of us. But when anyone thinks these things meant the loss of Dutch innocence, then that someone is extremely naïve, for real. When I heard some American react to these events by saying 'Ah yes, we already went through all that ethnic tribulations in the seventies,' I just had to laugh. It just goes to show people who are no longer willing to learn, because they think they already know enough. Go on, tell us where we went wrong. "Is it that you are so stupid, or is it just that I am so smart?" [Quoting Louis van Gaal, Dutch soccer-coach speaking to Dutch press]. How can we communicate when all we do is tell each other what to do and how to live?

Rallying as many people to your cause as you can is the way to know you are right. Being right is just a matter of numbers. It's the democratic way! Hear hear, it's election year. But aren't you just tired, like me, of all these people telling us how it is and how it should be? We've got islamophobes telling us the Shaaria is coming. We've got Muslims saying gays should be thrown off towers. We've got humanists saying we should not go to China. This country is the first to have chosen representatives in national parliament for the Party for the Animals. What does it mean when animal rights need more be defended then human rights? They tell us to treat animals humanely but really they want us all to go vegetarian. Well, I'm an Arian. Anyway, did we ask for your advice? No. Whatever it was, it was uncalled for. When you don't have a gun or a phaser, start throwing stones. When you stop telling other people how or what, maybe you'll find some time to remember: 'He who is without sin....'