The Great Evil
By CHARLES M. BLOW
NYT
The current political environment and the debt-crisis debate remind me of the 1997 science-fiction film “The Fifth Element.”
Stick with me. It’s complicated.
In the film, the Great Evil, a giant ball of fire, hurtles toward Earth, intent on destroying it. This thing shows up every so often. It’s annoying.
Anyway, a group of gentle aliens have a weapon that can stop it. It has been used before, and it’s really simple: It uses four stones that represent the four classical elements but a fifth element, the Supreme Being, must activate them.
The gentle aliens promise to return to Earth with their weapon the next time the Great Evil threatens. Sounds good. But on their way back, another group of aliens — simple-minded, warriors called Mangalores who work for an evil, wealthy industrialist — shoot down their ship.
(More here.)
NYT
The current political environment and the debt-crisis debate remind me of the 1997 science-fiction film “The Fifth Element.”
Stick with me. It’s complicated.
In the film, the Great Evil, a giant ball of fire, hurtles toward Earth, intent on destroying it. This thing shows up every so often. It’s annoying.
Anyway, a group of gentle aliens have a weapon that can stop it. It has been used before, and it’s really simple: It uses four stones that represent the four classical elements but a fifth element, the Supreme Being, must activate them.
The gentle aliens promise to return to Earth with their weapon the next time the Great Evil threatens. Sounds good. But on their way back, another group of aliens — simple-minded, warriors called Mangalores who work for an evil, wealthy industrialist — shoot down their ship.
(More here.)
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