Wednesday, December 28, 2011

FireFly!

Quick, before the copyright cops find it: Firefly the series is at youtube:



Firefly, like other series that attrack fandom, will probably outlive the stuff that gets all the hype: if nothing else because it is well written.

So phrases from the series will end up in the vocabulary of the hip, who understand the context and the implications behind the phrase.

Yet when this Theatre arts professor used a Firefly poster that in context implied that he was fair, straightforward and not able to be manipulated, it got him in trouble with the PC police who never saw the series: VIDEO LINK
(headsup Instapundit)

The PC police are clueless to the phrase, and guilty not only of intellectual apathy, but also taking things out of context, "ain't it awful" completely negative emphasis and concrete thinking... stuff we docs are trained to deal with in our patients.

presumably the professor would be in even more trouble if he put up a poster with the word "First kill all the lawyers"....and students using Guy Fawkes masks are similarly not endorsing terrorism but the right of the minority to be free of the rigid laws of state that try to control their thinking.

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