agression

 So I finished watching 1951, The Day The Earth Stood Still, based on a 1940 sci fi , story, and feeling kind of grateful about a robot not destroying the earth in 1951.  You think about it , Robin Williams would never have been a thing.  There would never have been a - Good Morning Vietnam, or a JFK, or LBJ or MLK or even the Beatles.

But the notion that a group of intergalactic folks might decide that aggression would be automatically addressed by total destruction, is a little bit unnerving.  It doesn't really explain why it is cold in Duluth. Of course at this point I have not really determined clearly, whether or not, in fact, it is even cold in Duluth, but I can say there is a substantial group of runners, some in the middle of the race, ie, Grandma's Marathon, who are grateful, and hoping it does stay cool this a.m.  

Back to 1951, there was no Marathon in Duluth, at that time, but there may have been more people here..  Generally, you might call them --- busy --- people.  Busy as bees? or busy as ants?  And right about now I am sure they would have been busy as heck with iron ore going out and wheat goin out of the harbor, across that big blue lake.

I guess the main thing that sticks with me about The Day The Earth Stood Still,  was that, if Patricia Neal's character had forgot the words, ? klatoo baratoo nickto ' the story would have turned out so differently..  Makes you grateful for the efforts that go into getting kids to memorize stuff today. But of course thinking about the Earth, really standing still ?, that is even more unnerving.

So, I guess I can sum up , by saying that maybe some day in the future , some kid might save the world because of how well he can memorize some foreign language or phrase.  Honestly, you might never know, but we, maybe, should be grateful at least that there are some who can.



  

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