Hollywood director Gilliam hits out at #MeToo 'mob rule'

Well said

"I feel sorry for someone like Matt Damon who is a decent human being. He came out and said all men are not rapists, and he got beaten to death. Come on, this is crazy!"

Matt Damon is moving to Australia apparently. Byron Bay. He says its to be closer to friends here and to get away from the Orange loon, but I would not be surprised if it was also to get away from the #metoo madness.

In a place like Byron, its not something he is likely to be exposed too very often.

Hmm, where are the usual voices clamouring for Hollywood to shut up and make movies?

That said, "Brazil" is a classic and almost didn't get made because of studio intererence.

"It is a world of victims"

Well said, Terry. In 2018, its the ultimate currency for left wing lunatics

Glad to see someone like Gilliam put it out straight, but I don't think his comments will level off those blind scales of justice. Something like #metoo permeates into culture in other ways than that which it was intended, and we're all worse off for it.

I find it funny that (while this is going on), a self-confessed pussy-grabber is the president of the U.S. and is just walking around."I find it incredible," he said, calling Trump a "conman".

You're not the only one, Tel.

Careful, though, you don't want to end up being targetted as a left wing lunatic.

This structure – guilty because accused – has applied in many more episodes in human history than Salem. It tends to kick in during the "Terror and Virtue" phase of revolutions – something has gone wrong, and there must be a purge, as in the French Revolution, Stalin's purges in the USSR, the Red Guard period in China, the reign of the Generals in Argentina and the early days of the Iranian Revolution. The list is long and Left and Right have both indulged. Before "Terror and Virtue" is over, a great many have fallen by the wayside. Note that I am not saying that there are no traitors or whatever the target group may be; simply that in such times, the usual rules of evidence are bypassed.

Such things are always done in the name of ushering in a better world. Sometimes they do usher one in, for a time anyway. Sometimes they are used as an excuse for new forms of oppression. As for vigilante justice – condemnation without a trial – it begins as a response to a lack of justice – either the system is corrupt, as in prerevolutionary France, or there isn't one, as in the Wild West – so people take things into their own hands. But understandable and temporary vigilante justice can morph into a culturally solidified lynch-mob habit, in which the available mode of justice is thrown out the window, and extralegal power structures are put into place and maintained. The Cosa Nostra, for instance, began as a resistance to political tyranny.

the existence of the word "mansplaining" is also a good indicator of the overt sexism going too far.

A patronizing put down opposite of a sarcastic dear or missy.

Waiting for karma to fix things has lead to this, so best to let it run its course. But the hypocrisy will keep building as a good movement drunk on power now moves into shrill mode