Self-control is a wonderful thing
Especially when you don’t have any. What can I say — I can’t help it if I can’t help myself when it comes to these Graphics Gone Wild.
I do occasionally now wonder, as a sometime big-time X-Files fan who periodically quite enjoyed that show — but always and only as pure fiction — whether its hit status and enduring cult popularity (2nd biggest of any TV series, trailing only Star Trek, or so I’ve read) contributed in some significant way to the conspiracy-theory malaise that has so infected our body politic.
Should I now feel remorse at ever having gotten into it? Was Murdoch not only every bit as evil as I had always thought, but also two degrees of shrewd ahead of me, realizing that he had not only a hit show that would make him a lot of money, but also a gift that would keep on giving, fertilizing mistrust in government for decades to come and sowing seeds that eventually would blossom into the Tea Party, QAnon, MAGA, etc., all of it redounding to his advantage as far as shaping (read: warping) our society?
Should I now wallow in hitherto unplumbed depths of guilt over what was already something of a guilty pleasure to begin with? Enquiring minds want to know.
At least this enquiring mind has never much gone in for The Enquirer itself, but even from the respectful distance I force myself to keep, that ragged rag, in somewhat similar fashion, no longer seems the harmless, even healthy, dietary roughage for one’s media consumption that it once did. More like junk food loaded with paranoiac carcinogens you never even suspected.
At any rate, herewith a companion graphic to the previous post meditating on Ms. Boebert and her discontents. I worked this up as continuing self-therapy after the trauma of seeing her punch above her weight on TV, and emerging largely unscathed.
I knew right away I would want Boebert to be Scully, but I needed someone to play Mulder, and who could I more perfectly typecast than the Jewish Nazi himself, Stephen ‘Himmler Goebbels Eichmann’ Miller. For those with the good misfortune to be totally unfamiliar with the show, I’ve gone chock-full in my poster with whatever authentic X-files marketing visuals and tropes I could manage. ‘The Truth is Out There’ was the show’s intro tag line. The ‘I Want to Believe’ poster (minus the sub-head I’ve added) hung in Mulder’s office. ‘Fight the Future’ was a recurring phrase, both a computer password in one of the episodes and the tag line for the first of the two X-files movies. In my repurposing, it can refer either to the battle that those four lower-right miscreants (lower-right in more than one sense) are waging about immigration by framing it as a terrifying tsunami of illegal aliens, or the battle that the rest of us must wage against them.
If anyone has a thought on how best to address the congresswoman’s other obsession, a balanced budget, in graphic form, do let me know. For now, the Dangerous Aliens challenge was…almost too easy.
(NB: pretty large file dimensions…if on a computer, please maximize your browser; if phone or tablet, hope you have adequately high resolution. Or just download it for full visual appreciation.)
