Saturday, September 10, 2011

Form and Substance

A new movie review about a film on the history of gospel singing included the rating: PG-13 for Incidental Smoking.

Incidental smoking. How precious. I'm no fan of tobacco but we are building little Potemkin Villages displaying our good intentions and motives. We are making our stand with symbolism and gestures. Perhaps we should start employing social censors/commentators to rate our proclamations and positions with grades like "insightful," "uninformed," "fatuous" and the like to guide the unwary. We probably shouldn't hire Moody's or S&P, though.

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