Monday, January 19, 2009

We Promise to Be Better People. . . Tomorrow


You can click on this link if you'd like. I can't really recommend you do, because it's 4 minutes of your life that you won't get back. But I post the link to make a point. What the link shows is a bunch of celebrities pledging to be better people. Starting tomorrow.



It might be uncharitable, but the way I read this self-congratulatory video in honor of Obama is that, for these supporters of the Sun King, it was acceptable to be self-involved for the past 8 years, but now they're going to clean up their act. If you watch, various of these swells apparently used to drive bad gas guzzling cars, cut people off in traffic, ignore the needs of their children and defecate on their family and friends, but now that acceptable leadership has come to Washington, they are going to straighten up and fly right.


I suppose if the citizens of Ashton Kutcher Nation actually make good on their respective pledges, it might make the world a marginally better place and potentially cause an incremental decrease in auto insurance premiums in the 213 and 949 area codes, but did they not have an affirmative responsibility to act better before tomorrow? Really, why would you put off better behavior simply because Evil W is in the White House?


The sad part of it is this: these bien pensants are so addled by their worship of The One that they can't even see the problem with the message they send. With each passing day this video looks more prescient.


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