]]>There are two rules to success in life - 1. Don't tell people everything you know.
— Gene Hunt (@GeneHunt) May 26, 2009
Apart from societies where boarding schools are the norm, pre-teenage children serve only one function: lawn work.
Miri, Charlie X, And the Children Shall Lead: the stories needed the same conclusion. Captain Kirk should have located an uninhabited planet whose surface was covered in lush, overgrown grass, beamed the little fuckers down and said, “MOW MY LAWN.” No objections such as “I hate grups”, no “Mister Loveydovey”. Collect them when they’re old enough to behave and have matured sufficiently to have developed taste.
]]>Still, it was a pretty sobering realisation.
cf: William Shatner, “You’ll Have Time”
]]>The changeover is only interesting in that it evokes the same degree of trepidation I feel whenever any regime changes its head of state, because the organisation is merely a political body, no more and no less, with the same goals of domination (borne out over the last few decades from persecuting Lenny Bruce to instructing their flock to avoid reading The Da Vinci Code).
Robert B. Weide indicates that his documentary Lenny Bruce: Swear To Tell The Truth will get a DVD release later this year.
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