Posted on 07/29/2020 6:38:53 AM PDT by Kaslin
The year 2020 in America feels like the end scene in 2019’s Joker where Gotham burns as the citizenry embraces the chaos spurred on by chaos-messiah, Arthur Fleck, the Joker. For the last four years, an audience of Americans watch America embrace the chaos-messiahship of the left as their saints questioned the legitimacy of the 2016 election, immediately sought impeachment, flip-flops on COVID-19, and now stands idly by as long-reigning progressive governments in Minneapolis, Seattle, and Portland descend into Jokeresque chaos.
When the movie debuted last October, opinion pieces from left to right decried the movie. Claims from leftists wanted the movie pulled simply because of the portrayal of potentially harsh realities of mental illness. Conservative Christians wrote blogs on the nihilistic, postmodernism threatening the worldview of our children.
The harsh realities of mental illness in America and how we take care of our mentally ill deserve exploration and extrapolation. Progressives should not be afraid of important thinking on critical issues. The movie does not impose nihilism or postmodernism onto the audience to prove Arthur Fleck’s epiphany “there is no meaning.” The movie is not indoctrination. It is indictment.
Instead, the movie communicates that mental illness is a real issue. Nihilism is the sign of a crazy person. Postmodernism fulfills “ideas have consequences; bad ideas have victims.” All of this is crazy. It leads us to more crazy.
Who realizes that it’s crazy to not address mental health issues and buy into worldviews of nihilism and postmodernism?
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Which in turn will produce a new silent majority in 2020.
Because this is the mob Gotham deserves, but it is also the one it needs right now. Expose the Left.
Nobody notes that Fleck is, at the end, merely an incompetent loser. That he inspired a criminal movement was merely confluence of events, a movement which will burn out and leave Fleck wondering what happened. An otherwise excellent insight into mental illness, and uber-gritty take on superhero origin genre, “Joker” utterly fails to deliver the off-the-charts IQ insane criminal mastermind the audience needed it to.
At least by so failing it defuses the inspiration for copycats. Nobody wants to be Arthur Fleck.
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