‘Alien’ star Yaphet Kotto died this week. Bill Whittle reflects on the similarity between the Alien creatures’ use of a host organism to destroy the host, and Progressives’ use of American cultural icons for the same purpose. There’s good news here if we muscle through the terror.
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35 replies on “CULTURAL PARASITISM: How Progressives Inhabit American Icons, Destroy from Within”
I’ve always enjoyed Yaphet Kotto’s performances. Some of the standouts were “Alien”, “Live & Let Die”, “Brubaker”, “Homicide: Life on the Streets”. I’m sorry to hear of his passing.
I still remember the trailer to “Alien”. Unlike other trailers that often show taught action sequences or zinger quips to draw you in, this was very still & eerie and ended with the tag line “In space, no one can hear you scream.” It scared the hell out of me, and I knew that I just HAD to see that movie. By far, the best one of the franchise (Yes, even better than “Aliens”).
“Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.”
Finding that, so I could make sure I had it verbatim, led me to another thing that I think may be even better:
“It is good and it is helpful to have physical strength; but looking back, I am certain that the truest part of true grit is not physical–it’s moral.
It’s something really tough, something we all fail at from time to time. It’s making a decision and standing firm in it, whether it’s submitting to an operation or putting an ailing pet to sleep. It’s doing what must be done.
After all, if you think about it, that’s the root of all morality, for no moral man can have peace of mind if he leaves undone what he knows he should have done.”
https://www.guideposts.org/better-living/health-and-wellness/living-with-cancer/guideposts-classics-john-wayne-on-true-courage
I enjoyed the episode a lot, but let me nitpick on some examples and term usage.
Especially the one in the title. Parasitism is about parasites. Those don’t kill the host, and takes quite extraordinary measures to ensure it lives and will be there for infinite benefits. The ideal parasite is not even noticed by the host — and is on the border of commensalism.
The wasp in the episode is called parasitoid, and what it does is really a slow version of predation.
Ellen Ripley’s female hero makes sense in another “traditional” way. Killing off a mother trying to incubate her young, even a horrific acid-dripping, parasitic alien mother, requires a female to accomplish the deed on even moral footing. It’s subtle, but that point reached me the first time I watched Alien.
My college roommate named our cat Jonesy..
Great video as always!
Yes, Aliens was pitch perfect. So were Promtheus and Alien Covenant. I’ll tell you what else is — MB2A and this episode of it.
Another perhaps-related phenomenon, but perhaps in the other direction, is TikTok. You see – my adolescent kids and all their less-woke friends are fighting back quite naturally and instinctively with what you recognized is the most potent of antibiotics — ridicule. The anti-woke clips are so potent that one good one can destroy a woke meme in it’s tracks. And they keep coming in rapid succession, often the next one funnier than the prior.
Bill, please keep on bringing it with MB2A. It’s not TikTok, rather it exposes how we can martial our resistance forces against this mindless hoard.
Just thinking about the sequel movie. That bad ass Marine bitch didn’t last long either, did she?
I saw this film in theatres, too. I thought one of the clever twists of the film (Alien was right before all the slasher film heroines) was Dallas getting killed in the 2nd act. Ripley to that point was just one of the other crew members. Not much different from Lambert or Parker. That Dallas was not the reluctant hero, was a pretty big deal.
good analysis. the movie centered around a female hero so the crew leader and ships’ captain (a traditional role model) had to get offed as soon as possible. there can be no cooperation, co-equal or co-management in the new world order of women in charge. still, it was a good movie and has warn well over time.
Another film that did this incredibly well was “Deep Blue Sea”
The Sam Jackson character is set up through the entire first act as the tough, can-do, been-there-before hero type.
5 minutes into the second act, BANG! Gone! In one of the most shocking quick-kill deaths in movie history. Leaving the rest of the cast to sort out who’s to lead them to salvation. An okay movie, but that twist was Epic!
just sent this to my posse of eleven. some solid insight here.
Magnificent Bill. That was awesome. Great insight and commentary on this one.
How long will the investors put up with this “woke” gambling habit?
The “woke” never were the audience and thus the financial supporters of these iconic superhero franchises and/or Pro Sports.
Even if you believe the left/woke audience would financially support these new woke versions, best estimates is they compromise a very small portion of the population. Also, the franchise won’t get 100% of even that, but a much lower percent like maybe 30%. So where is the viable investor option for losing money?
I can see the investor meeting now:
“Ok, we are going to totally alienate 90% of our current base, and instead seek the smallest portion from a tiny fringe base of purported non-capitalistic (non-economy supporting) unemployed, unknown/anonymous, social antagonists. Sound awesome right, (knods head vigorously)”
Yeah that must go over real well at the fund raising events.
Dale, I may be wrong about this, but I have read that China is Hollywood’s source of money now
China is definitely the “Lefts” source of money.
Does that really sell,in China though?
China or more accurately the CCP is not a capitalist driven system. They are long term planning and are quite far into their implementation stages. The CCP are not beholden to investors or for that matter their people. The CCP’s plans are to divide and conquer western society “by any means necessary“. Sound familiar…. I wonder whom was really making it hard for the CCP and whom that message was applied too….
Dale Miller, excellent point but do you suppose this is why Hollywood has sold out to the Chinese Communist Party?
Doh! I didn’t see Emma’s comment before I posted!
Hey! Great minds think alike!
A character who, over the story arc of a book or movie, undergoes a change from being a misfit or outcast to taking on the mantle of hero never fails to interest and inspire me. It’s one thing to be heroic – strong, courageous, capable, quick and smart, imbued with high moral character – one expects much from this individual and usually receives it. But it is the person less endowed, sometimes timid and without noticeable strengths who at a moment when self-less courage is required, steps into the fray to meet the challenge that touches my heart and spirit. This, too, is heroic.
When I was a kid I probably read just about every story Zane Grey wrote, and while I always admired the hero of the story it was usually his sidekick I crushed on the most. Said side-kick very often was the difference between life and death for the hero or the hero’s lady. Sure, the stories were strong on formula and week on depth but for my adolescent self they never failed to thrill!🤠
Very good! Loved the “social justice” zinger at the end.
On the nose with this one Bill. Love the segue from Alien to parasitic progressives. Unfortunately not just blue-haired feminist hags, but a lot of those attending CPAC are distributing those eggs. The America First movement is the only species right now with a fully functioning immune system.
Yaphet Kotto was awesome in Alien. Real good take on the complexity of the story. Although Weaver was not in the true sense the star of the show, she was just the last one standing. Now the sequel you can say that she was the star, which also was an awesome movie. The rest not so much.
Gotta remember that Ripley is just the kinda hero that Cameron (and Joss Wedon) specialize in. Ripley was able to take center stage all through “Aliens” because she’d already gone though the beginning of her arc (scared blue-collar worker outta her depth) in the first movie. Sarah Conner had to go from Big Boy waitress to bad-ass warrior in one film. Ellen was already in the “fight to escape” point of her journey at start of “Aliens”. Cameron could spend the whole movie evolving her into the bad-ass warrior.
Well, a video version of Eject! Eject! Eject!
Part of Bill’s excellence is his ability to find and juxtapose ideas and concepts that normally don’t go together, and he makes them work with great and powerful impact.
Anyone else recall his essay on the Pharaoh visiting the average American diner in the Nevada desert?
And a second or continued thought: Recall Thomas Sowell’s ideas about the constrained and unconstrained visions and the types of people who believe in each.
The movies and art that Bill lauds work because the constrained vision of imperfect and fallible humans are temporarily overcome by the hero or protagonist against the odds of his (or her) usual imperfect nature. We experience a moment of uplift and triumph as good occasionally bests evil.
The current crop of flawed movies, etc., that he cites can’t do that because SJW’s are already perfectible humans, so the fact that they do something nearly perfect is not playing against the odds of the unconstrained vision, but in accord with it. The result is a feeling of “meh”, or “well, what else did you expect from our superior heroine?”
Yes! The pharaoh had a terrible toothache!
Ah Bill, this kind of rendition and your Apollo series is exactly why I joined you last year and will continue to support you. You make good points in an interesting way/ Bravo!
Speaking as a gardener and a citizen of the US, the enemies of my enemies are my friends.
Aphid mummy in the grass produced by a teeny tiny parasitic wasp.
Cool, huh?
To go to your closing point, whenever the word “justice” is tacked onto the end of a phrase, it automatically warns you that justice is the opposite of what you’ll be getting. Think of social justice, climate justice, restorative justice, department of justice, etc.
Don’t forget pro sports. The NBA is now just a virtue signaling outfit, and I was surprised at how easily I was able to walk away from 40 years of passsionate NFL fandom.
What is this NBA of which you speak. I recall such a creature from several decades back. They had warriors with name like Bernard and Patrick squaring off against Mike and Scott. Haven’t seen their ilk for years.
The NBA owned the 90s, and that strike was the beginning of the end. The NFL just suckered the networks into a massive renewal, so I’m now looking forward to what happens when ratings & ad revenue don’t match the insanely high fees.
Frankly, I’d rather enjoy watching pro foorball games, but if their own destruction is how they want to entertain me I’m ready to roll with it
The NBA’s decline began when they switched to those big, baggy home-boy shorts…
Excellent Bill!