It's a Wonderful Life

It's a Wonderful Life for Sure

Yes. I know it’s been quite a while. I’ve been very busy with schoolwork and other things that I care not to mention in this article because it does not pertain. The holiday season is upon us once again like a vulture to a dead animal carcass. We once again are raped by commercial consumerism, convincing us that if we “don’t buy this gift for our loved ones, life is meaningless, and we don’t care about our loved ones.”

So if you are one of those fools who buy into this, I hope you come to your senses and get away from this madness. If you are one of the dolts that acknowledge this, but try to justify it, I hope your family finds you dead under the xmas tree.

We can’t go on much longer living like this. Aren’t you tired of others telling you what you “need”? Although I dread the television, I happen to watch it at other people’s places, and the commercials are just as invasive as cameras in bathrooms. The TV is invasive because human’s minds are so weak that we are impressionable by the slightest glittery advertisement. If you take sparkles, loud rap music, some half naked man or lady, and wrap it all up into one disgusting piece of digital garbage, voila, you sold your product to the next moron whether he or she really needed that item in the first place.

The ad-execs set up the most unrealistic situations also. For example, carpet cleaners: “[Insert lame product here] gets out the toughest stains like with this mess here. [Advertising tool] spilled wine, grape juice, grease, paint, feces, urine, blood, and tar all in this one spot, but with [insert lame product here] it gets that tough stain out.”

In less than one minute, some moron is petrified with fear that “this might just happen to me, so I want to be on the safe side” and he or she dials out of fear, and once again, in my eyes, dies and is left to be fed upon by the vultures of commercialism. But, I am not just blaming the vultures; the animal must die first and does so easily and willingly!!!

Are you one of these animals? I hope not, but I place my money that you are exactly the person I described above. Continue to follow the sheep right into the wolf’s open mouth. Don’t fight it, just surrender and feed the wolf. Be a good prey for the predators and be a good carcass for the scavengers. Go to church, chew the wafer, sip the wine or don’t pray kneeling, or mock the eucharist, or dunk you head in some polluted river and think you’re “born-again.” The fact that you might have a religious affiliation tells me exactly how impressionable you are, and it makes it easier to understand how weak one can be, especially around some crackpot holiday.

So in the spirit of xmas, go out to the stores, fight and trample your brothers and sisters for bargain gifts, drive like maniacs and get into car accidents, get irritated over the slightest lines in a store, erupt at your family for wanting stupid gifts, cry over spilled milk, watch irrelevant movies that try to make you think that your life is good, like It’s a wonderful life. Here’s the deal with that movie.

It’s a Wonderful Life is a tear-jerker to the simple-minded fool. Yes, the overall point is especially pleasing to the weak, but there are a few fallacies in the story. For one, it relies upon a belief that our life is predetermined by some form of god. In this case, it is the XTN version of god. Jimmy Stewart’s character wished he was never born and an “angel” appeared and saved him. The “angel” showed him a life without George Bailey, and things were much different than what we had previously seen up until that point. He saved his brother from drowning in a pond after sledding, stopped the pharmacist he worked for from giving a lady poison, gave up his chance to travel so that his brother could go to college, helped people get houses when he took over his dad’s job after his dad died, and more garbage happened too.

In the outcome of his life, his brother would later go on to save his army unit from being killed in the war, and Potter was being run out of business, etc. But, if it wasn’t for his life, his brother would have drowned in the sledding accident, the pharmacist would have been imprisoned for poisoning the lady, Potter, the evil rival of the Building and Loan, would have taken over the small town, and George’s wife would be a single, lonely librarian who was afraid of men, and the army unit would have been killed because George was not there to save his brother so his brother never existed. However, these are all contingent upon the basis that his life was important and irreplaceable. It’s harder to dismiss this when the person has been in existence for some 30 years, but if the slate was clean and no one had ever existed, there’s nothing to go by.

Right off the bat, it is hard to determine that all these events would have even happened without him being there. The War and Potter would have happened regardless of whether George was there or not. Those are constants. However, his brother might not have been sledding that day since he had no older brother to take him! All of those kids with them were friends of George, not his younger brother so the chances are slim that he would have even been there. However, if he was there, why couldn’t any of the other 10 kids help save him when he fell through the ice? As for the war, anyone could have saved the unit, whether it was George’s brother or someone else. Even if George’s brother, for some dumb reason, did die, someone else would have been in his place and did something similar to what he did.

All right ladies, this one should piss you off. If it wasn’t for George, his wife would have become a lonely librarian afraid of men. How many times must we go over this? There are tons of men out there, and she could have married any one of them and would have done so and had kids with them. So George’s life wasn’t contingent upon her “destiny”.

As for the pharmacist, any worker there would have done the same thing. It’s human nature that if you see a man sobbing over his dead son and being piss drunk, putting together a prescription, that something just isn’t right. George didn’t have to be there to make that observation. He’s not the only person in tune with the senses and emotions of others. So this can be dismissed.

Also, even if George had killed himself, all the events in the past were said and done. It’s not like they were predicting the future of “what may come.” All the events leading up to his attempted suicide were already set in stone and could not be erased. It was actually a waste of time to have to review all of them. It would have been more interesting, and increasingly more unreal, to try and predict the future. Who is to say that no one else could have stepped up to Potter, the evil old man who was on his deathbed anyways?

Obviously, this movie was over dramatized Hollywood–style which makes it very unrealistic. George was able to see his life was important (as if he didn’t realize his actions impacted anyone else) and he came back home to find all his friends in the town dumping large loads of money on his table to pull him out of the financial hole! So, broken down to what it’s worth, here is your xmas classic! Just remember, if you weren’t there, somebody else would do it and might do it better! Merry xmas you lame fools. Have fun wasting your time, your life, and your hard earned money. Go cry to Jesus when you fail miserably. Let your cries ring out on deaf ears! It really is a wonderful life!