Hamish MacBeth vs Hollywood Culture
Jim Bowery
event, not just in Scottish culture, but in Western culture. It is a shame
more motion pictures about "urban meets rural" cultures can't have better
insight into the depths of this conflict. This is largely due to the
ethnicity of funding sources for motion pictures in the United States being
overwhelmingly Jewish (see evidence below) with other urban ethnicities
running close behind in prominence. Severe cultural bias with attendant
conflicts of interest are inevitable when "diversity" means one or a few
ethnicities get a lock on control points for other cultures.
Boyle's mythic rural town extends well beyond the boarders of Scotland. This
is also a theme of Garrison' Keillor's "Lake Woebegone" with its "Norwegian
Bachelor Farmers". Keillor is an unabashed Norwegian himself and shows,
along with Hamish MacBeth, a tiny bit of what rural ethnicities have been
missing by allowing their culture to be dominated by Jews and other urban
ethnicites. The city is sexier than the farm or the fishing port. It is a
sad fact that a significant amount of farm land in the US Midwest is leaving
families that have held it for generations -- not just from farm failures,
but also because there are no more generations of those families. A lot of
families south of Minnesota were of Scotch-Irish heritage. The head of Clan
Campbell, Diramid Campbell, wrote an essay titled "The American Clearances"
about the recent generation's disposession as an aspect of the resurgence of
clan identity. Scottish Americans and other diaspora Scots in similar
predicaments have a serious need to reacquire their roots. Things may be
changing, particularly as the Internet makes it possible for people to
establish profitable "electronic cottages". "electronic villages" in rural
Scotland for diaspora Scots who wanted to repatriate might be a way for
their more stubborn cousins to make some money and quarantine the bad habits
and unrealistic expectations that their prodigals picked up while in the
colonies ;-). Of course the urban Scots in Scotland are also detached from
their roots, and have similar needs -- and bring with them similar
liabilities -- so merely living is "Scotland" is no guarantee of
"rootedness". I dare say many Scotch-Irish in Appalachia and rural Scots in
Nova Scotia are more Scottish than most who live in the cities of Scotland.
The broadcast on BBC-America of Hamish MacBeth is at least as important in
that respect than was Gibson's "Braveheart" -- especially as it deals with
contemporary, if a bit mythical, rural Scots and the conflicts of identity
they endure at the hand of US culture, but also at the hand of urban culture
in general.
In many ways the series "Hamish MacBeth" centered on the moment when Alex,
the princess of the villiage being seduced by the city, proposed to Hamish,
the Sheriff from the city being seduced by the villiage.
The town had thought it lost what might be considered its crown jewel to the
city; and here she was, returning, not simply to Hamish, but to her
community that so desperately needed her. Hamish was in a position of
responsibility, not simply to Amy's heart, but to the community over which
he was given protective authority -- and therefore likely to be accorded
more attention by the young women. If he was not careful, he might lose
this opportunity to welcome Alex back home.
Alex was symbolic of the situation that Boyle made into a theme of the
series, which was the shortage of young women due to the attractions of
money in the city.
In the first half of the series, the over-arching romantic tension is
between Hamish and Alex, a Lochdubh female who left for a career in the
city. In the second half of the series, the over-arching romantic tension
is between Hamish and Isobel, a Lochdubh female who left for a career in the
city. At no time during the series was a young man leaving a young woman
behind in Lochdubh for a career in the city. There was, however, an
_explicit_ statement of the gender imbalance by Boyle's teleplay when he had
MacCrae Sr. say to MacCrae Jr. that MacCrae Jr. should be more romantically
aggressive toward the single mother brought to Lochdubh for protection by
Isobel, due to the shortage of _women_ in Lochdubh.
It is rather difficult to escape Boyle's "politics", if one can call such
mythic story telling by such a profane noun, when the climax of the series
involves the return of the Stone of Destiny in the return of Isobel as part
of a virtual human sacrifice of two brothers of Lochdubh which nearly
destroys both Hamish and Isobel as well. That Boyle went to such extremes
to bring Isobel back to Hamish from the city speaks well of Boyle's
awareness and compassion for the difficulties faced by small town Scots.
We can debate the demography of rural emigration as it stands today, but I
think you'll agree that the ratio of female to male rural emigration is far
higher today than it has been historically, and the negative impact on
fertility in rural communities is far greater -- necessitating sometimes
massive importation of labor to keep those communities alive, regardless of
heritage.
As for Alex's influence on the community, as one of its leading daughters:
Look at the hysteria over Princess Diana. I have a hard time discounting
the impact that "nobility" has. Young women are, unfortunately, as
fashion-conscious as ever. If the "best" of a town's young women are
dedicating their lives in a particular way, they influence many others in
the same direction. The needs of a community continue across the immediate,
day-to-day, practicalities and encompass the generations, including children
being born and raised in, of and by the community. If the young women
leave, the community withers and dies a slow, sad death.
Continuity of the generations was, by the way, key to the climax of the
series when TV John's father appears to tell Hamish that Hamish and Isobel
would need for thousands of "Pampers" despite their agreement to "have no
children". Ewan MacGregor says he would be happy to spend the rest of his
career working with Danny Boyle. I believe Daniel Boyle, the screen writer
for Hamish MacBeth is a different Danny Boyle, but with story telling like
that, I can MacGregor's sentiment might apply to Daniel Boyle.
As for what I think Boyle could actually have done differently in the story
of Alex's return:
Hamish had not proposed marriage to Alex. He was not engaged to her.
Hence, the necessity of a public promise of marriage between them, if they
were to be married. This same absence of a public promise gave Isobel's
heart, as well as Hamish's, the formal freedom to seek each other out.
Alex's absence was not even required, but it did emphasize the informal
aspect of the situation.
That Isobel and Hamish exercised this formal freedom would not have been a
surprise in a more traditional culture, particularly given Alex's indefinite
absence.
This is what Hamish should, somehow, have said to Alex, because it is only
when that public promise has been made that the community can truly prepare
itself for the momentous changes that take place in the once sexual
intercourse consummates a relationship within the community.
This is the tradition of marriage among the Scots. The variations
introduced by more cosmopolitan standards were portrayed quite well in the
series, as were the dire consequences to a people of simple country heart.
Alex's proposal of marriage, even though it had come after sexual
intercourse between them, and even though it came from the woman instead of
from the man, and even though it came from a woman upon return from her
exploits abroad, rather than from a man upon return from his, was,
nevertheless, an appeal to the strength and wisdom of that tradition.
Hamish had, however, a deeper role to which he had to answer as protector of
the community.
Just as the role of community protector is more ancient than the institution
of marriage so the role that Hamish had taken on as community protector had
a tradition that required him to put the welfare of his community above
his own.
It was in that deeper tradition that he was least prepared to respond to
Alex's return -- and it was in that deeper tradition that he failed most
miserably.
This character flaw was not unique to Hamish. Like all community protectors
steeped in cosmopolitan values, they have had their communal instincts
suppressed or mutilated to such a degree that it has now invaded individual
relationships, typically appearing as though the men, not only of our
communities, but of our very families, have become weak and unreliable in
their roles as protectors of integrity. Perhaps the most visible symbol of
this decay, paraded around in a very public and theatrical way, was the
First Family of the President of the United States, although I see Bill
Clinton's situation as a charade via which the masses were provided a
scape-goat for far deeper difficulties with civilization.
Indeed, the pervasiveness of this flaw is a big part of what motivates young
women, such as Isobel and Alex, leave the simple rural communities in which
flaws, like most things in those communities, are most obvious, and seek out
urban communities in which the sophisticates are far more adept at
maintaining critical illusions. Chief among those sophistications, by the
way, is broadcast television programming itself -- one of the main reasons
that "Hamish MacBeth", with its even modest exposure of these issues, is so
unique and important.
So, to at long last, a actual course of action Boyle might have scripted to
more compassionately welcome Alex back from her "Sex in the City":
Although I realize it would have been out of character for Hamish, and that
this scene exposed the fatal, if endearing, weaknesses in that character
which I've probed above, I think hindsight tells us (or at least me) that
Hamish should have responded, first, to Alex's attempt to return to the
community, as evidenced by her proposal. His response should have been to
the situation; addressing the community:
"Alex seeks return to Lochdubh. This calls for celebration!"
Hamish should have then _immediately_ excused himself to attend to the
urgent preparation for the festivities and _immediately_ have asked the
elders of the community for assistance with the difficult situation in which
they found themselves. It would be easy to exclude Alex from these
proceedings as the guest of honor.
Only after Alex had been duly welcomed, in accordance with the wishes of the
community elders, should Hamish have responded to Alex's proposal of
marriage and he most definitely should _not_ have mislead her about the
events surrounding her return, least of all events of the heart.
In the espisode after Alex's death, "No Man Is An Island" we saw how
integral Hamish was to the community of Lochdubh -- that he had indeed "gone
native" and dropped his identification with the central government
authorities in the most radical acts of loyalty to the locals.
Like many of the suicides that are sanctioned in most traditional societies
Hamish's instinct was far from the pop-psychobabble slander of such acts as
"selfish" -- it was to atone for what he saw as a dishonorable act. His
heroism with the elder woman is what redemed his honor and therefore the
value of his life.
Without Alex's death as a conceit, I'm not sure what Boyle could have done
to explore this character development in Sheriff Hamish MacBeth -- and it
was, indeed, a crucial character development to the theme of the series.
I'm sure he could have found another crisis of similar depth without killing
Alex.
Back to that theme:
Some would say that the main reason that young women leave rural communities
for the liberations of the city is to escape stifling traditional roles in
which they find themselves cast in the more rustic environments.
This has been a theme of urban counter-culture promoted via mass media
broadcast in the homes in which rural girls, or first-generation suburban
girls of the post WW II baby boom, were raised. As the POST-counter-culture
mass media event "Hamish MacBeth" tells us, the experience with this
abandonment of tradition has led many to return to their roots with new
wisdom won of terrible hardship (exemplified by Hamish, Isobel, Alex and
Alex's father) as well as willing sacrifices, such as Hamish and Alex's
father on the Island, and TV John at the end, leading to the return of the
ultimate symbol of tradition: The Stone of Destiny.
Forgive me if I wax a bit, but this is an issue to which I've given as much
thought as it deserves considering not only the centrality of the proposal
scene to "Hamish MacBeth, but the importance of that television series to
the post-counter-culture West and the enormous weight Western culture
wields, rightly or wrongly, in the evolving relations between
post-counter-cultures. It is one thing to produce an erudite book for the
intellectuals about "post modernism" -- it is quite another to produce an
internationally broadcast, engaging television series with serious depth at
a critical point in world history. The fact that few people recognize the
importance of this series doesn't detract from its impact.
Again:
Hamish MacBeth is a landmark event, not just in Scottish culture, but in
Western culture. It is a shame other motion pictures and series about
"urban meets rural" cultures can't have the level of insight into the depth
of this conflict exhibited by Hamish MacBeth, but this is largely due to the
ethnicity of funding sources for motion pictures in the United States being
overwhelmingly Jewish with other urban ethnicities running close behind.
Severe cultural bias is inevitable -- and it is such biases in media that
bias the affected cultures.
5 of the 6 "most powerful people in Hollywood" according to Premiere
magazine have one thing in common.
But really, it is now 6 for 6. See the news update for Murdoch I inserted
below.
Not bad for 2% of the population!
http://premiere.hfnm.com/power100c.html
1. Gerald Levin -- [Jew -- jab]
Rank Last Year: Not ranked. Job Title: CEO, AOLTime Warner (pending
government approval). Status Report:The future lies in wiring the world, and
the 61-year-old Levin, who didn't wear a tie at the announcement of AOL's
$165 billion purchase of Time Warner, is leading the way. AOL's Steve Case
is buying two things:old-media content (Warner Bros., CNN, Time Inc.
magazines, HBO, TNT, etc.) and the nation's second-largest cable system.
Time Warner is hooking into a pioneering Internet marketer with more than 20
million subscribers. As competitors play catch-up, this bold combine-run by
Levin and co-COOs Richard Parsons and Bob Pittman-will be readying a vast
array of services that will become available when the much-touted broadband
universe finally arrives. And with Bob Daly and Terry Semel gone, Levin, who
for years had kept his distance from studio business, is now Warners'-and
Hollywood's-true godfather. Strengths: Flexible, political, future-thinking.
He's the one to keep this unwieldy behemoth together. Weakness: That may not
be possible. Yes, It's True: Levin will answer to the board, not to chairman
Case, and it would take 75 percent of the board to oust him.
2. Sumner Redstone -- [Jew -- jab]
Rank Last Year: 3. Job Title: Chairman-CEO, Viacom. Status Report: When
CBS's Mel Karmazin came courting, crafty ol' Redstone flipped the tables and
bought CBS for $36 billion. Vaulting over Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.,
Viacom became the world's third-largest media conglomerate, mating CBS,
Infinity Broadcasting, and 34 TV stations with Paramount Pictures, MTV,
Nickelodeon, UPN, and Blockbuster. Even before the merger closed, Viacom's '
99 revenues were up 6.3 percent. But Redstone remains as frugal as ever,
vowing to keep film spending at $300-$400 million. New COO Karmazin is
scrutinizing film-division business. Strength: Synergy rules! Nickelodeon
spawned sleeper Snow Day, which cost just $13 million. Weakness: Synergy
sucks! Producer David Lee (of Paramount's Frasier) joined chorus of protest
against antigay Dr. Laura Schlessinger, whose talk show is syndicated by
Viacom. Yes, It's True: At Barbra Streisand dinner, compared antiaging
remedies with fellow guests.
3. Rupert Murdoch -- [non-Jew -- jab]
[news update: Rupert's top guy/CEO is now Peter Chernin. Peter is, of
course, a member of the tribe. -- jab]
Rank Last Year: 1. Job Title: Chairman-CEO, News Corp. Status Report:
With pricey clunkers Anna and the King and Fight Club, profits at his Fox
movie studio slumped. Demanded more meat-and-potatoes fare. Speculation
swirled about possible purchase of Universal or alliance with Yahoo!
Building up global satellite business, which might become a stand-alone
company. Strength: Solid (though nepotistic) management team; refused to let
MGM hire away production chief Tom Rothman. Weakness: Lowbrow, conservative
taste. Yes, It's True: Loves tabloids-spent half-hour debating the Star
versus The National Enquirer with top News Corp. execs.
4. Michael Eisner -- [Jew -- jab]
Rank Last Year: 2. Job Title: Chairman-CEO, the Walt Disney Company.
Status Report: Insisted on fighting embarrassing Jeffrey Katzenberg
breach-of-contract suit; wound up settling for $250 million. Lost respected
studio chief Joe Roth; replaced him with untested animation czar Peter
Schneider instead of valued marketing-distribution vet Richard Cook.
Earnings sluggish and stock price low, though theme parks, ABC, and cable
are thriving. Internet portal GO.com is gobbling up cash. Once refused to
buy Yahoo! for pennies; now susceptible to new-tech buyout. Strength:
Finally appointed real number two, ABC's Robert Iger. Weaknesses: Executive
brain drain. Kim Masters's critical Eisner tome will further erode image.
Yes, It's True: Furious that Toy Story 2 profits were wiped out by Roth
flops The Insider and Bicentennial Man.
5. Steven Spielberg -- [Jew -- jab]
Rank Last Year: 4. Job Title: Beautiful Dreamer. Status Report: Handed
untested theater director Sam Mendes (Cabaret) the $17 million American
Beauty, DreamWorks' most profitable movie to date. Pulled a major Hamlet act
in trying to choose between four plum studio projects. Met with Harry Potter
author J. K. Rowling after Warners agreed to his terms, but decided he'd
been there, done that. Will do A.I. first (starting in July) for Warners,
then Minority Report, with Cruise, next spring. Controls DreamWorks' film
division, run by acolytes Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald, but now allows
workaholic partner Jeffrey Katzenberg to lend a hand. Won bidding war on If
Only It Were True by making personal call to writer Marc Levy. Abandoned
dream of Playa Vista studio complex, to the relief of his partners.
Strength: Studios are willing to give away the store for him. Weakness:
Partners' competing agendas fuel DreamWorks-Imagine merger rumors. Yes, It's
True: DreamWorks passed on Harry Potter before Warners picked it up.
6. Edgar Bronfman Jr. -- [President of the World Jewish Congress -- jab]
Rank Last Year: 5. Job Title: President-CEO, the Seagram Co. Status
Report: Will he or won't he? Though Universal has rebounded from a
disastrous '98, reports continue to surface that the Seagram scion, having
amassed the world's largest music company, is looking to sell off the movie
division. Speculation on buyers ranges from Barry Diller to a teamed-up
Imagine Entertainment and DreamWorks. Strengths: Huge bet on music paying
off with a cool billion in cash flow. His $2.1 billion Islands of Adventure
theme park in Orlando likely to benefit from attraction linked to Dr. Seuss'
How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Weakness: Universal has a poor record with
financial partners: Tried (but luckily failed) to unload The Mummy. Yes,
It's
True: Cowrote "If I Didn't Love You" for new Barbra Streisand album under
usual pen name, Junior Miles.
As a humorous illustration of this bias, I've thrown together a little Perl
script that generates parodies of summaries of screen plays taylored to get
funding from Hollywood executives. The program may need a little work to
make it more believable, but the humor exhibited by these "executive
summaries" is largely the result of the incredibly self-indulgent Hollywood
reality to which they to mockingly pander:
SCREENPLAY #1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
Title: "Final Detonation"
A gun-loving redneck beats his sister and then the racist goose-stepping
hick sheriff tries to cover it up.
To the rescue come a sexy intelligent blonde woman bisexual gang-banger
(with a strong sense of justice, fairness and moral integrity) and a heroic
hispanic Nobel winning scientist who try unsuccessfully to restrain
themselves from having sex with each other while successfully getting the
evil doers time in jail to detoxify their testosterone levels with the help
of 'Tyrone' the Christ-like AIDS-victim and his ethnic friends.
Gay blond male side-kick for heroic duo provides comic relief and just can't
wait to change the diapers on the little ones that are obviously on the way.
SCREENPLAY #2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
Title: "Instant Action"
A six-fingered hillbilly rapes his sister and then the six-fingered
hillbilly sheriff tries to cover it up.
To the rescue come a sexy intelligent blonde woman bisexual FBI agent (with
a strong sense of justice, fairness and moral integrity) and a heroic jewish
ex-con who try unsuccessfully to restrain themselves from having sex with
each other while successfully getting the evil doers time in jail to
detoxify their testosterone levels with the help of 'Tyrone' the Christ-like
AIDS-victim and his ethnic friends.
Gay blond male side-kick for heroic duo provides comic relief and just can't
wait to change the diapers on the little ones that are obviously on the way.
SCREENPLAY #3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
Title: "Explosive Execution"
A six-fingered redneck shoots his son and then the luger-collecting
hillbilly sheriff tries to cover it up.
To the rescue come a sexy intelligent blonde woman lesbian ex-con (with a
strong sense of justice, fairness and moral integrity) and a heroic hispanic
cop who try unsuccessfully to restrain themselves from having sex with each
other while successfully getting the evil doers time in jail to detoxify
their testosterone levels with the help of 'Tyrone' the Christ-like
AIDS-victim and his ethnic friends.
Gay blond male side-kick for heroic duo provides comic relief and just can't
wait to change the diapers on the little ones that are obviously on the way.
SCREENPLAY #4 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
Title: "Alpha Justice"
A shit-for-brains racist nazi nazi nazi shit-for-brains inbred
shit-for-brains nazi farmer rapes his daughter and then the luger-collecting
redneck sheriff tries to cover it up.
To the rescue come a sexy intelligent blonde woman bisexual Nobel winning
scientist (with a strong sense of justice, fairness and moral integrity) and
a heroic jewish detective who try unsuccessfully to restrain themselves from
having sex with each other while successfully getting the evil doers time in
jail to detoxify their testosterone levels with the help of 'Tyrone' the
Christ-like AIDS-victim and his ethnic friends.
Gay blond male side-kick for heroic duo provides comic relief and just can't
wait to change the diapers on the little ones that are obviously on the way.
SCREENPLAY #5 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
Title: "Executive Judgement"
A white-trash gun-loving gun-loving banjo-playing inbred hillbilly beats his
mother and then the gun-loving goose-stepping banjo-playing hick sheriff
tries to cover it up.
To the rescue come a sexy intelligent blonde woman bisexual detective (with
a strong sense of justice, fairness and moral integrity) and a heroic jewish
cop who try unsuccessfully to restrain themselves from having sex with each
other while successfully getting the evil doers time in jail to detoxify
their testosterone levels with the help of 'Tyrone' the Christ-like
AIDS-victim and his ethnic friends.
Gay blond male side-kick for heroic duo provides comic relief and just can't
wait to change the diapers on the little ones that are obviously on the way.
SCREENPLAY #6 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
Title: "Sudden Action"
A trailer-trash white-trash goose-stepping nazi redneck rapes his wife and
then the tin-foil-hat-wearing gun-loving hillbilly sheriff tries to cover it
up.
To the rescue come a sexy intelligent blonde woman lesbian detective (with a
strong sense of justice, fairness and moral integrity) and a heroic jewish
civil-rights worker who try unsuccessfully to restrain themselves from
having sex with each other while successfully getting the evil doers time in
jail to detoxify their testosterone levels with the help of 'Tyrone' the
Christ-like AIDS-victim and his ethnic friends.
Gay blond male side-kick for heroic duo provides comic relief and just can't
wait to change the diapers on the little ones that are obviously on the way.
SCREENPLAY #7 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
Title: "Ultimate Punishment"
A trailer-trash redneck shoots his mother and then the goose-stepping
redneck sheriff tries to cover it up.
To the rescue come a sexy intelligent blonde woman lesbian gang-banger (with
a strong sense of justice, fairness and moral integrity) and a heroic black
gang-banger who try unsuccessfully to restrain themselves from having sex
with each other while successfully getting the evil doers time in jail to
detoxify their testosterone levels with the help of 'Tyrone' the Christ-like
AIDS-victim and his ethnic friends.
Gay blond male side-kick for heroic duo provides comic relief and just can't
wait to change the diapers on the little ones that are obviously on the way.
SCREENPLAY #8 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
Title: "Instant Execution"
A six-fingered hick rapes his mother and then the racist inbred white-trash
banjo-playing redneck sheriff tries to cover it up.
To the rescue come a sexy intelligent blonde woman bisexual detective (with
a strong sense of justice, fairness and moral integrity) and a heroic
hispanic gang-banger who try unsuccessfully to restrain themselves from
having sex with each other while successfully getting the evil doers time in
jail to detoxify their testosterone levels with the help of 'Tyrone' the
Christ-like AIDS-victim and his ethnic friends.
Gay blond male side-kick for heroic duo provides comic relief and just can't
wait to change the diapers on the little ones that are obviously on the way.
SCREENPLAY #9 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
Title: "Relentless Punishment"
A latent-homosexual banjo-playing redneck shoots his mother and then the
goose-stepping wife-beating tin-foil-hat-wearing infant-shooting
sheet-wearing goose-stepping redneck sheriff tries to cover it up.
To the rescue come a sexy intelligent blonde woman bisexual detective (with
a strong sense of justice, fairness and moral integrity) and a heroic black
detective who try unsuccessfully to restrain themselves from having sex with
each other while successfully getting the evil doers time in jail to
detoxify their testosterone levels with the help of 'Tyrone' the Christ-like
AIDS-victim and his ethnic friends.
Gay blond male side-kick for heroic duo provides comic relief and just can't
wait to change the diapers on the little ones that are obviously on the way.
SCREENPLAY #10 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
Title: "Executive Punishment"
A trailer-trash hillbilly shoots his infant and then the latent-homosexual
banjo-playing white-trash jail-bait mistress-shooting six-fingered
tin-foil-hat-wearing nazi hick sheriff tries to cover it up.
To the rescue come a sexy intelligent blonde woman lesbian cop (with a
strong sense of justice, fairness and moral integrity) and a heroic black
cop who try unsuccessfully to restrain themselves from having sex with each
other while successfully getting the evil doers time in jail to detoxify
their testosterone levels with the help of 'Tyrone' the Christ-like
AIDS-victim and his ethnic friends.
Gay blond male side-kick for heroic duo provides comic relief and just can't
wait to change the diapers on the little ones that are obviously on the way.
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connochies
Jim Bowery <jim_bower...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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This is the same wee twee Hamish MacBeth programme that we were watching
over here? How can anyone turn a lightweight Ballykissangel bandwagon
programme into a racist stand against Jewry? The idea too that we Scots are
somehow not very Scottish is ludicrous. How can anyone be more Scottish
than the Scots? We are what we are and fortunately not what others perceive
we should be.
Allan
Chic McGregor
<co...@conno.greatxscape.net> wrote:
>
>Jim Bowery <jim_bower...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:talst2q...@corp.supernews.com...
>
>This is the same wee twee Hamish MacBeth programme that we were watching
>over here? How can anyone turn a lightweight Ballykissangel bandwagon
Hardly Ballykissangel bandwagon. B was written by one of the old
'That's Life' presenters, Kiernan somebody, forget which one, and
first appeared in 1996ish.
Hamish Macbeth was created in 1985 by M C Beaton, a Scottish
(Glaswegian) writer. It therefore significantly predates B as well as
that other oft claimed but equally erroneous 'bandwagon', 'Northern
Exposure'.
My suspicion is that the true antecedants are more likely to be the
films 'Local Hero' 1983 (a couple of years before the first book) and
'The Wicker Man' 1973, but you would need to ask Marion herself about
that.
>programme into a racist stand against Jewry? The idea too that we Scots are
Eh? Och I can't even be bothered reading enough to see where his
claim came from.
>somehow not very Scottish is ludicrous. How can anyone be more Scottish
>than the Scots? We are what we are and fortunately not what others perceive
>we should be.
>
>Allan
There was a flavour of knocking Scottish culture in the TV screeplay
compared to the books, but let's face it, if it aint got that, it aint
getting on, these days.
regards
chic
Nick-Durie
Kenneth McVay, OBC
Jim Bowery <jim_bower...@hotmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> 1. Gerald Levin -- [Jew -- jab]
>
> Rank Last Year: Not ranked. Job Title: CEO, AOLTime Warner (pending
Is Mr. Bowery anti-Jewish, anti-Gentile, or simply anti-Capitalist?
After all, AOL shareholders surely number in the millions... perhaps
Mr. Bowery will tell us what percentage of them are Jewish.. that
would be a nice beginning, since one does not become CEO without
Board (and thus, shareholder) approval and support.
Or is Mr. Bowery's claim that "Jews control of the media" his way of
expressing his contempt for Gentiles in general? After all, if the
boardrooms of the worldwide media are filled with Wascally Joos, then
they are equally _not_ filled with Gentiles.
Why not, one needs ask?
Is Mr. Bowery trying to tell us that Gentiles are simply incapable of
acquiring capital, or investing it wisely, or in media firms?
In short, does he assert that non-Jews are just too dumb to be
Capitalists, and _that_ is why those Wascally Joos are everywhere he
looks?
It is, after all, the Capitalist system that permitted the members of
the AOL Board to acquire their financial power, and, of course, employ
their CEO of choice.
Does Mr. Bowery oppose this system? Would he remove Jews from
positions of influence, as Hitler did?
Is Mr. Bowery upset about Jews in positions of influence because he
believes non-Jews are too stupid to think for themselves, and will
thus fall under the spell of the Wascally Juice? Is that it?
Are we simply too dumb to reason on our own, Mr. Bowery? Are we
completely incapable of thinking, as _well_ is incapable of earning
our way into the boardrooms of the world?
How long have you felt this contempt for Gentiles?
--
"Denial of Science & The Science of Denial"
The Techniques of Holocaust Denial
http://www.nizkor.org/features/techniques-of-denial
Jim Bowery
liberalization, here is a paper focusing on that involvement
specifically with respect to the United States by Professor
Kevin MacDonald of the CSULB psychology department:
http://www.csulb.edu/~kmacd/paper/ABERNET3.PDF
MacDonald, K. B. (1998). Jewish involvement in influencing United States
immigration policy, 1881-1965: A historical review. Population and
Environment, 19, 295-355.
For a more complete picture, there is no substitute for Kevin MacDonald's
"Culture of Critique":
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0275961133
"Kenneth McVay, OBC" <kmc...@veritas.nizkor.org> wrote
> Is Mr. Bowery anti-Jewish, anti-Gentile, or simply anti-Capitalist?
I previously posted the following to soc.culture.scottish:
> In any case the business elites are being quite open about their agenda
at
> this point, telling us all that "prosperity" is critically dependent on
> "diversity"
> Aside from the highly questionable linkage between "diversity" and
> "prosperity" that is asserted, what they forget is that money isn't
> everything -- not even close. But then people who don't care about the
> ecology in general aren't much more likely to give a damn about human
> ecology let alone human heritage, now are they?
Transport technology, like any technology, has its environmental side-
effects that must be considered from the perspective of the evolutionary
history of the ecosystems affected by the technology. It is hard to over-
state the importance of transportation technology coupled with
environmental control infrastructures that allow radical mixing of
ecologies across climates. Liberalized immigration policies without
regard to these technological side-effects is irresponsible in the
extreme and is a property of all empires, but more importantly of
post-Guttenberg empires in which Jews wield disproportionate
influence.
Specifically:
Jews are denying the holocaust their immigration liberalizations
have caused other peoples. This is particularly unforgivable since
Jews have gotten so much mileage out of their sufferings during
WW II, but more importantly because there is reason to believe
Jews may be more evolutionarily adapted to surviving the negative
effects of such technologically enhanced "diversity" -- having
coevolved with urban environments more than others.
Coupled with statements from Jews like Jared Diamond in "Guns,
Germs and Steel":
"...the peoples of northern Europe contributed nothing of fundamental
importance to Eurasian civilization until the last thousand years; they
simply had the good luck to live at a geographic location where they
were likely to receive advances (such as agriculture, wheels, writing,
and metallurgy) developed in warmer parts of Eurasia. In the New
World the cold regions at high latitude were even more of a human
backwater."
and Menasseh Ben Israel's declaration to Cromwell that only when
Jews had spread to all corners of the world could the Messiah come,
and that in a declaration that formed the backbone of the United
Kingdom's participation in the creation of "Manifest Destiny" as
well as the abuses of other peoples by the British Empire under
the leadership of such Jews as Disraeli and the Rothschilds,
what we are witnessing is a supremacist ideology that so greatly
exceeds the Nazi era in scope and duration as to bring into question,
not whether the Germans committed atrocities against Jews, but
whether it is rational to believe the Germans did _not_ commit
atrocities against Jews -- the motive, on the part of any peoples
among whom Jews had been active, being so apparent?
connochies
Chic McGregor <charles....@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:3aab5cda...@news.ntlworld.com...
> On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 08:25:11 -0000, "connochies"
> <co...@conno.greatxscape.net> wrote:
>
> >
> >Jim Bowery <jim_bower...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> >news:talst2q...@corp.supernews.com...
> >
> >This is the same wee twee Hamish MacBeth programme that we were watching
> >over here? How can anyone turn a lightweight Ballykissangel bandwagon
>
> Hardly Ballykissangel bandwagon. B was written by one of the old
> 'That's Life' presenters, Kiernan somebody, forget which one, and
> first appeared in 1996ish.
>
> Hamish Macbeth was created in 1985 by M C Beaton, a Scottish
> (Glaswegian) writer. It therefore significantly predates B as well as
> that other oft claimed but equally erroneous 'bandwagon', 'Northern
> Exposure'.
Ach the book may have been written whenever but there is no doubt the TV
programme was shot to a formula. A Sunday night lightweight comedy drama
with a city guy going to some back of beyond and interacting with some
rather peculiar locals, apart from the leading lady, who is eminantly
sensible and serious. Maybe I was giving Ballykissangel rather too much
credit, after all there is that other cultural classic Heartbeat which
precedes them all. London cop goes to live in the rural north with lots of
funny characters who don't exactly respect the letter of the law! Even
Monarch of the Glen has the laird returning from exile in London and
wondering how he'll cope with all these bumpkins, who often get the better
of him anyway. To me they are all the same, with only the degree of
tweeness seperating them. Saying that I rather enjoyed Hamish.
>
> My suspicion is that the true antecedants are more likely to be the
> films 'Local Hero' 1983 (a couple of years before the first book) and
> 'The Wicker Man' 1973, but you would need to ask Marion herself about
> that.
Good point!
>
>
>
> >programme into a racist stand against Jewry? The idea too that we Scots
are
>
> Eh? Och I can't even be bothered reading enough to see where his
> claim came from.
Well you are eminantly more sensible than me in that dept. I read a few
paragraphs. At least if Akins is going to say something he says it in less
than 2000 words, and even if you don't agree with it at least you can
understand the bloody thing.
cheers
Allan
Jim Bowery
liberalization, here is a paper focusing on that involvement
specifically with respect to the United States by Professor
Kevin MacDonald of the CSULB psychology department:
http://www.csulb.edu/~kmacd/paper/ABERNET3.PDF
MacDonald, K. B. (1998). Jewish involvement in influencing United States
immigration policy, 1881-1965: A historical review. Population and
Environment, 19, 295-355.
For a more complete picture, there is no substitute for Kevin MacDonald's
"Culture of Critique":
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0275961133
Specifically:
(and that in a declaration that formed the backbone of the United
Kingdom's participation in the creation of "Manifest Destiny" as
well as the abuses of other peoples by the British Empire under
the leadership of such Jews as Disraeli and the Rothschilds)
Kenneth McVay, OBC
Jim Bowery <jim_bower...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>For those ignorant of Jewish involvement in immigration
>liberalization, here is a paper focusing on that involvement
>specifically with respect to the United States by Professor
>Kevin MacDonald of the CSULB psychology department:
Ah! Our picture of Mr. Bowery becomes more clear!
He not only condemns capitalism, which permits Wascally Juice to
actually purchase shares and acquire influence, and condemns Gentiles,
whom he clearly sees as near-terminally stupid, but he also condemns
participation in the democratic process by Juice.
Let's see now... he opposes capitalism, and he opposes democracy...
ah, yes, he's not fond of Jews...
Hmmm... where have we heard that crap before....
--
"...I note that on the few occasions of which I am aware where purveyors of
anti-Semitic propaganda have endeavoured to justify their materials in
court on the facts and the merits, they have been singularly unsuccessful..."
(http://www2.ca.nizkor.org/hweb/people/s/scully-olga/reason.html)
Jim Bowery
>
> whom he clearly sees as near-terminally stupid
If I were not open about the weaknesses I see in our own people McVay (being
a good demonstration of the chief of those weaknesses, which is
indoctrinability) would have executed the alternative in his programming,
which runs approximately as follows:
if(opponent_claiming_superiority)
print_theme "So why didn't your Supreme Aryan Ubermensch win WW II?";
else
print_theme "So you are saying you are an antisemite because you are
jealous of Jewish superiority!";
finally
print_theme "Nya Nya Nazi!";
Chic McGregor
<co...@conno.greatxscape.net> wrote:
>
>Chic McGregor <charles....@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
>news:3aab5cda...@news.ntlworld.com...
>> On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 08:25:11 -0000, "connochies"
>> <co...@conno.greatxscape.net> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >Jim Bowery <jim_bower...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> >news:talst2q...@corp.supernews.com...
>> >
>> >This is the same wee twee Hamish MacBeth programme that we were watching
>> >over here? How can anyone turn a lightweight Ballykissangel bandwagon
>>
>> Hardly Ballykissangel bandwagon. B was written by one of the old
>> 'That's Life' presenters, Kiernan somebody, forget which one, and
>> first appeared in 1996ish.
>>
>> Hamish Macbeth was created in 1985 by M C Beaton, a Scottish
>> (Glaswegian) writer. It therefore significantly predates B as well as
>> that other oft claimed but equally erroneous 'bandwagon', 'Northern
>> Exposure'.
>
>Ach the book may have been written whenever but there is no doubt the TV
>programme was shot to a formula. A Sunday night lightweight comedy drama
>with a city guy going to some back of beyond and interacting with some
>rather peculiar locals, apart from the leading lady, who is eminantly
>sensible and serious. Maybe I was giving Ballykissangel rather too much
Maybe?? With both books and TV seriers preceding it????
>credit, after all there is that other cultural classic Heartbeat which
>precedes them all. London cop goes to live in the rural north with lots of
Heartbeat (which is considerably harder to find on the web than Hamish
Macbeth) first started in 1990, well after most of the Hamish Macbeth
books were written. Also, the tv atmosphere was completely different.
Ballykissangel has a similar atmosphere to Hamish Macbeth, but is the
follower, and not as good IMO.
regards
chic