My Inane Blather Once Again

What to say, what to say. When I first heard that as an assignment I would be writing blogs, it sounded like a fun idea. Fortunately, hindsight is 20/20. Now, I am not trying to say that blogs are a bad idea; actually I still think its kind of fun. My problem with blogs is coming up with something to talk about; this is especially a problem for me since I am not a talkative person. When a subject comes up I may only have a small opinion. Until there is a counter-opinion, by then I have usually filled my opinion quota for that particular subject. Along with that completely unnecessary digression I most certainly do have a topic of conversation for this entry.

DISCLAIMER: POSSIBLE SPOILERS FROM THE NEW JAMES BOND MOVIE, IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE MOVIE DO NOT READ UNLESS YOU REALLY DON’T CARE. My friends and I recently saw the new action flick, James Bond: Quantum of Solace. Normally after seeing a movie I would just talk about the extremely slick European cars, but excluding the opening scene the movie was filled with regular, American Fords. Since this subject was not necessarily applicable except to talk about the absence of European cars, we started to discuss the environmental aspect of the movie. My good friend the philosopher mentioned that the movie was “laced with references to the environment,” (Walrus 25). Some of the different references he was speaking of were the corrupt environmentalist, the politics of oil consumption, the fears of water shortage, and even the fuel cells at the hotel in the desert. The producers of James Bond clearly are trying to get our attention about different parts of the environment that most of us unknowingly are essentially giving away to the metaphorical Greene Planet. We are letting these absolutely essential parts of the environment whither away without any fight.

Be like James Bond, become part of the British secret service and kill any leads in a case. Once your done doing that you can fight for the water supply of the world and other environmental troubles, because as Neo says in a movie where he is not Neo, “If the Earth dies, [we] die.”