Despite my recent outburst against David Attenborough and his latest series – not to mention a long, documented history of Attenborough aversion – I still find waiting for me on Facebook every morning, under the inviting heading 'Suggested for you', the latest offering from a site titled David Attenborough Fans and adorned by a picture of the great man. In an age when so many are gripped (with some reason) by a fear of all-encompassing round-the-clock personal surveillance, I find it reassuring that, for all their data harvesting, whizzy algorithms and formidable reach, 'They' actually know so little about us.
Among the less frequent visitors to my Facebook feed are Jean Paul Sartre and Brad Pitt, but today I had what appear to be early pictures of Pitt playing Sartre (and Eva Green Simone de Beauvoir) in a forthcoming biopic. Is this for real, I wonder – and why Brad Pitt, an actor who is, most would agree, somewhat better looking than the beetle-browed existentialist? An interesting 'thread' is developing on Twitter, with someone suggesting Steve Buscemi for the part – a nice idea.
Eva Green as Simone? Oh!
ReplyDeleteI have read your postings about David Attenborough with interest although he's mostly just a name to me -- so I'm not prepared to say something about him specifically.
ReplyDeleteIt does seem that, often, the very wealthy do not like people, except for a few cronies, very much. If that's the case, the antipathy might have some roots in fear of people, people who want something from them, want to pester them with their neediness, etc.
This may also have something to do with how many wealthy people are not (as they are depicted in movies) conservative but rather are leftist. In the leftist utopia, everyone except those in gulags will have so many "resources" provided by government that they will (it may be hoped) leave one alone. If John Lennon's "Imagined" utopia came about, there would be no one asking him for money.
Dale Nelson
Interesting... That may explain quite a lot about the attitudes of the various elites.
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