Is this possibly the ultimate manifestation of the pure, detached from reality idiocy of the liberal urge towards the grand but hollow gesture, the naively symbolic good? Speaking here of Woody Allen's new film being pulled from India because Woody wouldn't allow anti-smoking ads to be superimposed over scenes where someone was smoking, which I take it is the law in India. This what India wastes its time on? A country where the plague still exists? A country drowning in soul killing poverty where a young girl can still be sold into marriage by needy parents? A country where some 600 million people, almost twice the size of all of America for Christ sake, do not have access to proper toilets and just daily do their filthy business in open fields?!! Are you fucking kidding me?! I would imagine a good smoke would be one of the few things a poor soul could look forward to in a bloody awful place like that. But of course the crowning glory of this insanity is that it's a Woody Allen film!!! Is it really such a huge problem in India that impressionable teenagers are rushing out to fucking Woody Allen films to be corrupted into the evils of smoking!!? My God. The world is just too stupid to tolerate. I need to find me a cabin in the woods and just go all Thoreau on this bloody idiotic mess.
