Netflix Junkie

The funny thing about Netflix is that it has tons of shows I liked in my youth. Not sure how productive life is when you find yourself watching shows and movies that are at least 30 years old, but it's a worthwhile escape in that life was okay when there wasn't a 24/7 news cycle and reality shows making nobodies famous for nothing of importance.
Superman: The Motion Picture humors me. What exactly is "truth, justice and the American way?" The concepts of those three things seem to have changed over the years. Everyone seems to be a victim seeking justice anymore when at the core of truth there's fifty differing points of view
I'm amazed that Red Dawn was ever made. It makes me feel as though the NRA was behind it to draw fear of invasion as a means to further support the 2nd Amendment.
War is ugly. I didn't have to watch Slaughterhouse-Five to feel the horror of the destruction of Dresden, but I find myself struck by how the book is so different than the movie. I've read the book enough times to see the sci-fi plot line as being a metaphor for Billy's coping with the trauma that has built up in him. His becoming unstuck in time pre-dates Desmond Hume's from Lost, that Vonnegut's estate should have gotten something from the producers of Lost for appropriating the concept. Then again, I'm sure Kurt V. borrowed the experience from some other literary work that has been lost to the ages.

Nothing seems to ever be "new" or "original" anymore that it doesn't surprise me that the toilet is being pushed for reinvention. Why not re-invent the wheel? If not for the wheel, we'd never have suburbs. Life was simpler without the wheel.