Harry Potter

I've always subscribed to the theory that the majority of the population are brainless drone retards who will follow any trend even if it includes ingesting battery acid or setting oneself on fire to make a statement. If you were to mass market hype a piece of grapefruit by putting it on tv, the radio, the internet, or in print, you'd have a phenomenon within a few days time, and not because the piece of fruit actually means anything. It's because people are too fucking stupid to know any better. They'll swallow just about anything if you sell it right which doesn't mean the jackass who sold you the gold-plated turd is some kind of marketing genius who deserves praise. Quite the contrary. This asshole needs to be executed in public on the charge of mindrape. Just because people are stupid doesn't mean should take advantage of them for monetary gain which I know is contrary to being human.

What the fuck does this have to do with Harry Potter?

Hype. Create enough bullshit press and eventually everyone will swallow whatever poison you've disguised as a birthday cake. That's not to say Harry Potter is a complete farse, and everyone who likes it is a mindless slave drone. No indeed not. I encourage reading on every level whether it's a cartoon strip in your local newspaper, Stephen King's uncut version of The Stand or Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. Reading is like vegetable soup for the mind. I love books and I always have. There's nothing like using your own imagination to paint your own personal pictures of the events which unfold page after page in a good book. Very few films manage to capture the magic which I've created in my head about any given story brought to the screen, but I'll save that rant for later on.

Harry Potter isn't bad literature. In fact, it's rather good literature, but not because 23894723984234 people rush out to the buy the books because they are trend bandwagoners. No sir. It's good literature because it manages to avoid a few key subjects which, when brought up in the wrong circles or at the wrong time, may lead to violence and bloodshed. Harry Potter avoids religion and politics for the most part. It makes no fucking difference if you are a republican devil worshipper or have 50 pounds of explosives strapped to your mid-section. You won't find any global political crisis littering the pages of these books, nor will you find any religion which is a positive for all kids and adults alike.

It's time we left Jebus, Allool and the Poop out of books, and let our imaginations run wild in a world full of magic, which in today's fucked up global arena is a welcome change, but not unexpected. There are current trends which put into question the very beliefs we were forcefed as children in school. Jesus was just another dude who got wrangled into being the savior of all mankind by an institution which committed genocide before and during the inquisitions. It could have been anyone, and in fact there were several candidates. Sorry Jesus, you won a painful public execution in the name of god. Ouch!

I have no problem with those who correlate Harry Potter with the Pagan theme. I wouldn't go so far as to call it a religion since it's more earth oriented and nobody is killing each other over it. In my opinion there's nothing wrong with a little earth worship, since after all, we are of but the very mud and clay upon which we trod daily. Kudos to Rowling for duping the masses into swallowing magic and the elements wholeheartedly.

One tidbit I'd like to touch upon in summary is the movies.

I love movies, especially good ones. The Potter series isn't the greatest ever, but if you need to kill a few hours in an afternoon while herbalizing your mind, check one out. Fair warning though. The girl who plays Hermine is quite possibly the worst fucking actor (ess) who has ever plagued the big screen. Her forced dialogue and overexaggerated lines and facial expressions are enough to make you want to turn off the dvd player, forever. She's Liv Tyler's LOTR character brought to the Harry Potter series, but amplified. I'd rather shove something sharp into my eyeball until it hits my brain than watch Hermine spew forth her vomitaciously unconvincing dialogue.

So to sum it all up kids? Keep devouring books that extoll the virtues of magic in a godless realm of sorcery and witchcraft. Public human sacrifice can't be far off...