Word: evil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...truly daring thing about The Boys (a work of fiction inspired by several real cases of Canadian children abused by Catholic clergy) is not the statement it makes but the questions it raises. The agony of young Kevin (bravely played by Johnny Morina) finds its evil twin in the torment of Lavin (a brilliantly implosive turn by Henry Czerny). Here is a man isolated in his lust and duty; years later he says to a psychiatrist, "I'm not afraid of you. I'm afraid...
...just made it up to illustrate the hidden danger of long-worded paradigms. Remember, I promised never, ever to use my paradigms for manipulation. If I do, my everlasting soul will be banished to Dante's eighth circle, which awaits all those who betrayed their paradigms for evil rather than good. But that's another paradigm...
...course in those days, as in Reagan's, the goal of government-directed space research was to outdo the "evil empire" of the Soviet Union by trumping their achievements with more impressive ones of our own. Today I can open my morning newspaper and read a story about the American space shuttle executing a daring rendezvous with the Russian space station, Mir. Imagine that: the East and West working together in space for a change, instead of racing against each other. Contrary to popular belief, the planned international Space Station Freedom is not "NASA's space station;" it belongs...
Today, our cultural barometer is shattering. The most critically acclaimed and commercially successful movies hinge upon violently disturbing visual assaults and a running theme of moral nihilism. In the most cuttingedge cinema, there are no "good guys," no right side to root for in a struggle against evil. More and more movies are following a trend epitomized by Oliver stone's Natural Born Killers (based originally on a story by Tarantino), in which the heroes are psychopaths who kill scores of innocent people and get away with it, riding off into the sunset to commit more acts of ultraviolence...
Fallen to the earth, so Adam's evil seed...