Puppetized
Watching old movies:
black-white flickers to
train pupils; see pale-
skinned indignities as
unquestioned status quo,
eyes fix postured macho,
not swerved to objects;
props serving patriarchy,
downcast eyes, smiles
or not, dependent ploys
to be toyed with, stringed
automatons, machines
serving sociopaths’ greed.
Tao-Talk
You have reached a quiet bamboo grove, where you will find an eclectic mix of nature, music, writing, and other creative arts. Tao-Talk is curated by a philosophical daoist who has thrown the net away.
Tao-Talk 
A skewering rebuke of the culture that was onscreen and whose vestiges may yet survive, though more subtly. It does strike you unpleasantly, those
“pale-
skinned indignities as
unquestioned status quo”
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Thanks much, Dora. I agree, vestiges survive, though are more subtle. I do think we are headed in the right direction, unless doofus interferes. Oops he already has, by taking over The Kennedy Center, stripping grants and other support for the arts, etc.
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Well, our First Lady sits on its board which some would think is a good thing to have a woman in a pivotal role, but it’s not. Some things go beyond gender to what’s good and true. Maybe one day that ship will be righted.(Or Trump be removed, from the Kennedy Center’s name at least.)
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Oh, those old movies are so different… everthing doesn’t age well
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Oh, those old movies! Some of them make you cringe. I love the imagery in “black-white flickers to
train pupils”.
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Punam, thank you.
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I used to watch old movies on my grandparents’ television and, back then, as a child, I thought they were magical. But now I can’t even watch Laurel and Hardy or Buster Keaton, let alone Fatty Arbuckle. ‘Pale-skinned indignities’ and ‘props serving patriarchy’ indeed.
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Thanks so much. For a kid who watched a LOT of tv, my brainwashing was thorough. White men spoke and everybody else listened or agreed, and if you didn’t…
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You’re most welcome, Lisa.
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Bonnie and I are into watching film noire. There can be some pretty strong characters, but more than a few times there’s some not-so-subtle (and also outright) misogyny.
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Dark and twisted! I feel like I didn’t try hard enough with my use of the q word.🤣
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