Gort

I am reminded now of my childhood, when American cinema more often involved profound insights, social responsibility and challenges to the status quo…(nowadays it’s usually just industrial light and magic, stunts and pyrotechniques)… great films that exposed great truths (I mean honesty, pardon me)such as ‘mississippi burning”…”12 angry men”…”For whom the bell tolls”…”in the heat of the night”…”the man in the grey flannel suit”…”to kill a mocking bird”…”guess who’s coming to dinner”… to mention a few, and my favorite…perhaps the most important science fiction film, (or maybe we should call it “faction”), of all time…”the day the earth stood still”. Do you remember, “klato virata nicto”? Do you remember Gort? Would you agree that he is the actualization of prime law, especially the part about “no exceptions”? A space age alloyed, iron clad enforcer of the amendment prohibiting force, fraud and coercion!!! I recommend we all watch that film again, n
ot the recent one with all the robotic bugs, but the original in black and white…the really good one! Let it remind us, as we ponder how we might stimulate our own Neothink apprentices to learn about and contribute to our cause, that the concept is not new, but the idea that freedom and justice, (the Civilization of the Universe) might now be achieved by our collective efforts is the real news of the day, and we can make it the biggest news story ever! Perhaps it was we who should be referred to as Baoraperous as the lead character, our benevolent visitor and his faithful sidekick, Gort, tries to rescue us from bicameral mysticism…even as we frightened little bugs try to kill him only for being unknown to us. Such visionaries as the producers of this film have always lived among us. Many were outcasts, persecuted, murdered by hoards of frightened little people…afraid of truth, afraid of change while, ironically, even more afraid of the reality they knew! Our mission
is to quell the fear. Our weapon of choice…fully integrated honesty coupled with patience and kindness…..