Republican Space Rangers

Devolution of Man

From Leigh to Pee


Where are the femme fatales today? Ladies like Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, Vivien Leigh, Lauren Bacall and Carole Bouquet. These women could hold their liquor and make your heart beat without being vulgar. Such class and elegance.
How different we are today! A car wreck where its all about looking like a slut or tramp. Just Google 'drunk actress' and you'll see what I mean. Heck compare the photgraphs I have posted here if you're in a rush.
And its not about the alcohol, they had boozers in the 1950s too but at least they were stylish and oozed class. And didn't dress like Poundland hookers waiting for a fix. They reek of cheap, like the human form of syphalis. If they could act it would be one thing but these are actresses only to themselves and foolish directors who insist on filling the screen with fluff.
The classic femme fatale is dead and this makes me sad. We are left with pizza faced, grim bodied witches with the seemingly only honest ambition to get as wasted as possible.
Ive said it before but I truly believe we are witnessing the devolution of man. Its not just Hollywood, the decline has spread everywhere from that ghastly 'text speak' where people are too lazy to write a few letters, to the supposedly responsible broadsheets advising an affair to put fun back into marriages.
We are slowly (or quickly depending on how one looks at it) turning ourselves back to apes. We crawled, we stood, we conquered and now that we have seemingly achieved all, we are turning around and racing for ape life once more. (Text speak is no more than banging sticks and stones together anyway.) Im not some mad blogger, alone in believing this either. There is a part in "Return to Sodom and Gomorrah" by archeologist Charles Pellegrino where he talks to Professor Stephen Hawking, and Hawking says this: "Whatever we were arriving at in this planets history, we have already arrived at it." Indeed, and where to now?

The Mundanes

Anyway I thought id post something current with the Assange thing. Sometimes I think im too much in my own merry cocoon, writing about death, booze, retro, pipkins, food and videogames, so occasionaly I make attempts to join in the trends. And generally end up scurrying back into my own mad yet pretty world :)