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Celibacy...
or How I Learned To Stop Shagging
And Hate the World
A 500-Word Rant
by Chris Sharp |
Sex in the movies... not nudity, or how sex is corrupting our
children, but how sex is always seen as the most momentous event
that can possibly occur, the penultimate scene in almost every film
is the guy getting the girl. Is there any film that doesn't have a love
interest? And I'm not talking here about James Bond bedding
beautiful women in twelve different languages, I'm talking about
the no-it's-not-sex-it's-making-love-really bits where emotions
overcome the stars of the film and they fall into each others arms...
try thinking of a film which doesn't have this obsession with
sex-as-redemption... then think of all those exceptions you've come up
with and eliminate all those that involve a "family" as our star's
redeeming characteristic... with what's left, get rid of everything where
our star is a tough, unconventional wise-cracker, who disrespects
authority... what's left? In Hollywood over the past 100 years
not a damned lot that I can see [Psycho, Citizen Kane, Godfather,
but these are really cinematic art, rather than just films]... maybe I'm
just railing against the idea that we need a family or an 'other half'
to complete us in life, there are times when I wonder why whoever
is in charge is doing so much to stop us thinking... but then I realize
that we are falling down all the same traps our ancestors did - Adam
and
Eve begot Kane and Abel to populate Eden, and to propagate
their characteristics... we have children so that some small part of us
can live on... we have children so someone is left to shop once we die,
someone else is left to have consumption as the basis of their
satisfaction, their personality, their religion. Think about it like this...
If we were to compare capitalism to a bonfire... let's build a fire, and
have everyone gather around, but instead of making the fire wider,
so more people can get warm, let's make it taller so the people
at the front can roast, and everyone else can freeze, and let's wave
the fire in front of everyone's faces so they strive for its growth,
but still can only feel the faintest flicker of heat in an autumnal
breeze... and let's just keep on building up this fire, way past
the stage where it's usual or useful, and let's measure the success
of this fire not in how much it does what it is supposed to do,
which is give heat and light to everyone, but by how much it GROWS...
so if it doesn't grow then it's a failure.. does the sun hate itself for not
growing every year? what does the moon think when it sees the sun?
If there were two of you, which one would win?
What if you've already won?
Chris Sharp is a young man from Britain
who enjoys making obscure references to marmalade.
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