OS Has A Change Of Heart: So Does Sony--No Pressure

Well, there does appear to be some blowback about the 10:10 set of videos released this week--you know, the ones featuring a teacher, an exec, and a radio producer pushing a little red button and blowing up children, employees, and a voice-over performer. Because they disagree with the idea that they should change everything about their lives in order to combat 'global warming'.

You know, No Pressure.

Sony has back-pedaled away from this bit of evil as quickly as it can, as evidenced here, and many other places across the planet.

The UK's O2 has decided to stand by their favorite fascists, in the tradition of Tammy Wynette; but Eugenie Harvey, director of 10:10 UK, issued an official (if insincere) apology.

This was not some public relations gaffe--an executive caught being a bit too candid, or even the sort of Tiger-Woods-what-were-you-thinking sort of public meltdown.

This was deliberate.

It takes a lot of time, thought, money and energy to shoot three short films; actors to cast, storyboards and scripts to write and get approved by the people who spend the money to make the films, shot locations to secure, crew to hire, editing, special effects, etc. Video/film runs at thirty frames per second, and every frame included is a deliberate decision.

So, OS has had a change of heart, and is making his own deliberate decision to post the video with all three of these evil short films for his readers to peruse. OS has also made another deliberate decision--he doesn't want to live in a world run by the kind of people who would produce this sort of thing, who would approve of their production, and who may even think this approach to private choice and public dissent is desirable. That's been tried again and again, in Germany, Russia, China, Japan, North Korea and Cambodia, to name a few examples from the past ninety years or so. Tens of millions died horrible deaths as a result. (Eugenie's only sincere regret is that her crew got caught in the act of being themselves, portraying the sort of world they have planned for the rest of us.)

Not here, not now, not ever. So, OS's gonna keep on scribbling and working and praying Providence protects his country from the people who run it. And, he's gonna post that piece of evil on his piece of the digital real estate, as a warning to anyone who may stop by to view it. That's what he can do today.