Monty Python’s Life of Brian is the most prescient movie ever made, predicting exactly in 1979 the cultural madness you see around you today.
Despite that, the flick was wrongly derided four decades ago by the very people who might find it gob-smackingly funny today.
Life of Brian was vigorously protested during its U.S. release by various groups who believed — apparently without having seen the movie — that it was anti-Christian.
Nothing could be further from the truth. There are only two appearances by Jesus in the movie, one of which is off-screen. The first is the night of Jesus’ birth (Brian’s, too) and what little we see is true to the Bible.
Well, except for the part where the Three Wise Men first tried to deliver their gifts to baby Brian in the manger next door.
In the other scene, years later, we briefly see Jesus giving the Sermon on the Mount. No mockery is made of Jesus or His message.
Of all the jokes, gags, and barbs thrown in every direction, Jesus is the only figure shown respect. Monty Python trouper Eric Idle later said of Jesus, “What he’s saying isn’t mockable, it’s very decent stuff.”
For a non-believing, take-no-prisoners comedian like Idle, that’s practically a whole-hearted endorsement.
Instead, the film — Python’s only real film, the others were basically collections of sketches, even Holy Grail — is anti-authoritarian, anti-fanaticism, anti-nihilism, and anti-humorless prigs.
WOKENESS is a defeating and suffocating pursuit. All great art, intellectualization, science and comedy come from an acute awareness of the irony and futility of the human condition and nature’s hypocrisies and organic contradictions. No one learns anything covering their ears or burying their heads in the sand refusing to see or hear anything that may be the slightest bit threatening or discomforting or conflicting to their beliefs. It’s not how any of this works and it’s not how we got this far. People worry it’s Communism or something Political, it’s far worse it’s robotic Apathy and Nihilism. Vanquishing our basic individual instincts, inherent intellect, experiential perspectives, and emotions for a collective safe numbness without fear or any conflict makes us NOTHING but the spineless primordial slime we started out as.
oh no, there’s that word again. REALITY!