On Friday, June 24, 2022 at 10:22:02 PM UTC-6,
septimus_...@q.com wrote:
"Apres moi, le deluge."
-- attributed to Louis XV of France
In the last episode of season 4 of "Yellowstone" the
patriah of the fictional Yellowstone Ranch in Montana
has a discussion with one of his Indian frenemies.
The Indian asks him what will happen in 100 years.
John Dutton (Kevin Costner) replies that his precious
ranch will disintegrate in far less than a century,
along with the rest of humanity, and it is up to God
to restart the whole enterprise if He has the stomach
to.
I probably misremembered (and am too lazy to head over to Peacock to check).
The other party in this conversation is probably not the Indian Frenemy, but the
activist judge who throws an environmentalist protestor (Piper Perabo of "Covert
Affairs" fame) in jail for 30+ years, while the Dutton criminal associates continue
to roam free despite their murder sprees, conspiracies to commit torture, corruption,
and a laundry list of other offenses. This judge, like at least two members of the
U.S. Supreme Court, probably lied under oath to get himself elected too.
The Perabo character is depicted as a clueless idealist who (probably?) sleeps with the Dutton patriarch, at least twice her age. Real environmentalist leaders
would have trounced Dutton in debate about getting rid of cattle. It is not just
animal suffering, although that plays a large part too. Cattle release disproportionate
amount of green house gas, and worst of all, they take up all the land that could
have been used for reforestation or solar panel/wind farms. Experts in the field
contend that every square feet of land on earth needs to be deployed to generate
energy or storage CO2 -- there is just no luxury for cattle grazing. The best thing
we can hope for is that the Dutton gang is finally sent to prison in seaon 5 so the
land can be converted to a beautiful field of man-made blue silicon, with a few patches left for "Museum cowboys" to nurse their stupid nostalgia -- while lunching
on Impossible Burgers. That's a TV series worth making.
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