Ivy Scarborough

TO MY FRIEND DAVE BRANDT,

DAVE, WHAT YOU DESCRIBE IS A DISPLAY OF DILETTANTISM – A SUBJECT I ALSO TALK ABOUT IN INTO THE NIGHT

(NO, I DO NOT THINK THERE WAS MUCH OF ANYTHING I DID NOT ADDRESS IN INTO THE NIGHT.)

DILETTANTISM IS NOW EPIDEMIC IN OUR SELF-ABSORBED CULTURE. 

FOR EXAMPLE, EVEN WHEN THE CULTURE GIVES LIP SERVICE TO A SUBJECT LIKE MASCULINE TRAITS IT HAS ALL THE SUBSTANCE OF A TELEVISION “REALITY” SHOW.

MARTHA STEWART IN BUCKSKINS OR BDUs!!

DAVE: ONE OF THE OTHER MOVIES MENTIONED IN THE DVD WAS “A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT”; WHICH MY RETIRED DOCTOR FRIEND FOUND ESPECIALLY OFFENSIVE BECAUSE OF THE GODLESS MESSAGE WOVEN INTO THE MOVIE.

AGREED. WORTHLESS JUNK.

ALL OF THOSE SHALLOW CHARACTERS PUT TOGETHER AND URINATING INTO THAT MAGNIFICENT RIVER (AN APT METAPHOR FOR WHAT WAS BEING DONE TO GOD’S WORLD AND HIS REALITY BY THAT MOVIE) WOULD NOT CHANGE ITS COURSE ONE IOTA OR ULTIMATELY TAINT ITS PURITY AND CLARITY.

BUT THE ARROGANCE OF SUCH MEN (WRITERS, PRODUCERS, ACTORS, DIRECTORS) IS SUCH THAT THEY REALLY BELIEVE THEY ARE “SAYING SOMETHING” OF NOTE.

THAT AND ALL OF THE OTHER FLOTSAM OF A DECAYING CULTURE THAT DRIFTS AROUND THE WORLD IN HUGE, SMELLY, STAINED CLUMPS ARE REFLECTIONS OF THE ATHEISTIC/AGNOSTIC/GOD IS EVERYWHERE AND IN EVERYTHING/THERE ARE MANY WAYS TO GOD MINDSET.

THEY DON’T KNOW IT, BUT THEIR ANTHEM WAS WRITTEN GENERATIONS AGO BY A COUNTRY WESTERN SINGER.

IT IS BEST KNOWN BY THE TITLE BORN TO LOSE.