politically correct

I strongly suspect that if Michigan had a republican governor, along with your republican house the state would have been wide-open like Texas or Florida and be suffering the same sky high rates.  And that economic bonus of drinking bleach (I know it's not really drinking bleach, but I like the ring), did not improve their economies which are no better than the economies of the lockdown states.  The thing is that most of the residents of these states are smarter than their leaders, and even if you throw wide open the doors to your corona haven most people are too smart to enter it. That Swedish experiment is looking like a bad mistake with high death rates and an economy that is worse than their European neighbors.

I would think that the reason it is called Occam's razor is that it cuts to the truth, paring away all the bullshit of silly nonsensical answers.  But I am not going to go foraging through the internet to see if that is the actual reason because it would be a good exercise for Beagles to find it himself,

I've been watching a lot of Netflix lately,  I tried several of their series like Breaking Bad and Ozark, and I have not been able to get into them at all.  Movies are limited to, oh four hours at the longest, and you would think that these series that go on for season after season and may have easily forty hours to tell their story could do a bangup job.  But that's not what they are about.  They are about filling time, they just run through the same crap over and over and over, they are not about having a good time, they are all about killing time.

I would estimate that about half of all movies are kind of like that, hire some big-name star, run through some genre plot, make sure the good guy gets the girl or punches out the bad guy, or maybe both, and dust off your hands and collect your cash.  But the other half the director has some kind of vision, he has a story he wants to tell, maybe experiment a little with the plot or the cinematography, or whatever. He may do a good or a bad job of it, but something is going on besides killing time.

That gets me to the subject of movies, and the current top movie on Netflix is The Help which is not great but is not that bad.  It's set in the sunny south of the fifties in some small town where all the white ladies have black maids, and in general treat them deplorably but then something happens and they learn a lesson and afterwards they treat their help better.  It's all told from the viewpoint of the white ladies and it's kind of patronizing, but there are subplots and there is humor and it's well-built.    But in the wake of Black Lives Matter, it is just too Uncle Tomish and the establishment critics are deploring the fact that so many people are watching it.

There is another movie, Hidden Figures, that came out not long after, it is loosely the story of this group of black women mathematicians who helped NASA in the space race and of course who were treated deplorably, but they eventually come out on top.  See the difference here is that it is the black people (and women, never forget that they are women) are the stars and they do the reckoning which makes it much better to the critics.

And sure I get that, there is always that trend in movies to make a white guy the hero, like Tom Cruise in The Last Samurai, and I always thought that was stupid.  In Hidden Figures all the white men are bad people except for the Kevin Costner character because he is a big star.  Most of the white women are bad, but not as bad as the white men because, you know, they are women.  The black men are pretty much not there because that would make it too complicatd.

And there is nothing complicated about this movie, the black women defeat the white men at every turn and then it is the end.  How boring I thought.  But the critics loved it, because it was so politically correct.

That's what I am really complaining about here, political correctness.  Well I will do more complaining tomorrow, meanwhile the balcony beckons with a breezy morning.