You probably think you know that the Scottish patriot called, “Braveheart” was named William Wallace? You also think you know that Pocahontas had a love affair with John Smith. Well, you’re wrong. You don’t know any such things. The real Braveheart was a guy named Eric the Bruce (or Bruce the Eric, I’m not sure which). And Pocahontas never had glorious love affair with John Smith because, among other things, at the time, Pocahontas was eleven or twelve years old.
Then why would you think such things? Simple. It’s because you learned them in the movies.
For too many years I have been driving my friends away by bloviating about my problems with docudramas – you know, the movies about “real” things. My problem is that these productions are neither fish nor fowl – they are neither true nor false. They are, as they proudly announce: “based on a true story.” So which part is “based” and which part is “true”? Which is “docu” and which is “drama?” Can’t tell. Inevitably, then, each individual finishes docudramas thinking that they have learned something, when, most possibly, they have not.
Now that’s bad enough when it’s just in the movies. The problem is that now – IT’S EVERYTHING! We are now living in a docudrama.
The prime example is our Prevaricator-in-Chief and his mendacious minions. Can you believe any words they say? I can’t. But I’m willing to bet that within their inedible word salad there is some semblance of something that we can be believe.
Of course, Orange Julius and his clown car government are not alone. We hear and read bullshit from everyone. In everything we read and hear there is never a way to isolate a jar of vinegar from a glass the 1945 Romanee-Conti (that’s a real wine, by the way, I looked it up). Whether you’re reading the Wall Street Journal or your cousin’s blog, it is reasonably certain that something you will see there will be false, or at least misleading.
All of our information usually has a kernel of truth in it. But kernels are not enough. Think about something sweet, juicy and fresh entering your mouth. (Hey, I’m talking about a corn on the cob here. What did you think?) You would never bite off just one kernel of the many on that cob and say that you’ve really tasted it. So, a kernel of accurate information does not a meal make.
Each of us has developed our views for the accumulation of all of that information. Some is true, some is false. Some is “docu and some is “drama.” It is a docudrama that our lives have become.
We are all participants in a docudrama.
WHEN THE FUCK IS IT GOING TO END?????????
We were right 