Bow before your master
The other night the movie, 300, was on TV, and I watched the last 30 minutes of it. Towards the end, there was a scene where the spokesman for Xerxes (evil king from Persia) pretty much told Leonidas (good king from Sparta) to bow before Xerxes or be killed. Like most mindless action movies, I didn’t think much about this at the time. After all, we have certainly moved past the time when narcissistic, man-gods demand that those who oppose them prostrate themselves in fearful worship.
Then I heard about how the democrats were having hearings today to pass a resolution of disapproval against Rep. Joe Wilson for calling the Chosen One a liar. I didn’t even know there was such a thing as a resolution of disapproval, and I also don’t know by which moral compass Congress gets to wield such a tool. With disapproval ratings of Congress soaring, one has to wonder how such a body was able to remove the beam from their eye long enough to pick out the mote from Rep. Wilson’s. Above all, I am disappointed that they didn’t force Rep. Wilson to bow in worship of Barack Obama. Resolution of disapproval??? Give me a break. I want nothing less than 100% submissive prostration. Face to the ground. Beg for forgiveness, boy!
i have no problem with this, as long as they round up every democrat that booed and/or harangued Bush during his speech, Joe Wilson style.
and 300 was one of the worst movies i have ever seen.
What are you talking about? Xerxes led a multi-cultural army. How can that be bad? Of course, they all had to bow to their leader and they were punished and enslaved but, hey, you can’t have it all.
jd – from the 30 minutes I saw, you are right, didn’t seem like a great movie. Also, why stop at anti-Bush democrats. Grassroots organizations like Acorn only get people to vote for their candidate. How weak. If they can’t proselytize their master to the point where we all adore him in reverent worship, then they shouldn’t be getting anymore taxpayer dollars.
Harrison, I was rooting for Xerxes. Those Spartans were just a bunch of war-mongering, pre-emptive strike, racist, fascists.
Yes and Leonidas clearly lied about going to war. I liked the movie myself.
Their real story is quite moving.
Xerxes, however, did appear to have weapons of mass destruction.
I actually liked the history channel documentary of the battle better than the part of the movie I saw.
In the long run, the most humiliating thing for the Persians about this fight is that they don’t have high-school mascots named after them.
the one thing i did like about the movie is that it led to a great South Park episode.
and yes, the history channel story was far more moving (and accurate, for that matter).
Around 500AD, Greeks went into battle naked in order to intimidate their foes. Spartans were clearly repressed.
I guess the Xerxeses didn’t catch on. Maybe in Tehran they have them?
After last nights Saturday Night Live Weekend Update special, I feel a new level of sympathy for Joe.
Boeed away is something different than yelling and screaming at an elected president he’s a liar…
There is some kind of conduct of ethics…probably not in the USA…anymore…
And…start reading the classics…then you understand maybe Xerxes and the Spartans…)) ??????? ??? ?? ?????? ??????? ??? ?????? .))
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I didn’t write this post to Condone Wilson’s behavior. For Congress to pass a meaningless “Resolution of Disapproval” is as equally stupid and childish as calling Obama a liar during his speech.
I have read most of the classics, I am not sure how representations of the Battle of Thermopylae in the “Classics” would change anything I wrote here since I was writing about the movie, 300, and not the actual historical event.
I’m not getting the analogy between a resolution disapproving of a representative’s breach of the rules of the House, and bowing before the Supreme Leader. No one is telling Joe Wilson to submit to the President, and he is absolutely entitled to disagree with him, make speeches against his proposals, and vote against them. But he is not entitled to heckle the president in the House chamber before a joint session of Congress. Even in the British House of Commons, where heckling is permitted, it is against the rules to call the speaker a liar.
Perhaps the faces have changed, but the game is pretty much the same as it was centuries ago. I guess in such high up positions of power you are always in the lime light and making bad remarks against the top dog can’t be let go without some sort of punishment. What would we common folk think of a leader that allowed people to talk down to him?
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