More thoughts on "powers that be" who think we mere mortals on the ground can't run our own lives with our own money.

<--- This is actress-sex-goddess-babe-evil-fighter-bandit-Xena-nemisis Hudson Leick/Calisto. Xena: Warrior Princess, we all remember, was a ratings hit involving our own Lucy Lawless. The Yanks made it, I think, in West Auckland or some such. It was a fantasy TV show set in a fictional Ancient Greece.

Calisto was our heroine's, Xena's, arch-enemy. She fought with her sword, her sexuality, and her dirty and siniser mind games- always driven by her vengeful lust toward Xgirl. She was sort of a cross between a hateful Drew Barrymore and a horny Wolverine. Powerful performance. I wish I watched the show more now....but I digress.

Below is a picture of Leick on another show around about the same time Xena was still on, Touched By An Angel.

I used to watch both of these shows sometimes, but the latter, the one about angels rocking down from Heaven and fixing our lives, dropped off my watch list one day. That was the day Ms Hudson Leick first joined the show and just ruined it for me.

This time Hudson was an angel, teaming up with that red-head young-motherly girl with the Irish ling. And it made me angry!

In this episode the angels were to be doing their 'touching' at 10,000ft in the air. They were deployed, Mission Impossible style in place of mere earthly air hostesses. This was because the angels knew (by angelic powers, duh) that disaster on this flight was imminent. The plane was going to crash or hit a duck or some such. As far as I remember that was it. It was just an airborne human crisis with human fears that called for, not human compassion but the sort of relief that only the true powers that be could provide. High as it was, even this plain was subject to a higher power!

Yes, and that's when it became all too plain to me that the premise of this whole TV show was that people cannot run their own lives for themselves! It wasn't so obvious when the angels were dressed in flowing dresses or slacks in the suburbs. They just delt with families and individuals then, fixing their lives. But when they infiltrate, IMF style, an airline's cabin crew that gives the whole game away just blatently doesn't it? I didn't watch that show the same way again (if ever).

It makes me angry, it should make everybody angry! The self-styled powers that be storming in and taking the place of responsible adults is an affront to our dignity and an incentive to us not to develope the virtue. If an angel came down here and tried to usurp your moral efficacy you'd punch her in the nose! Why then, when, as in my previous post, it's Dominic's Liarbor Government (far from angels!) do we vote them into power instead?!

What've you got to say about that Dominic?