Peace Arch Entertainment message board (PAE)-Chapter 27

An open letter to the board of Peace Arch Entertainment:

Boycott Chapter 27
My original goal for this letter was to scrutinize Peace Arch Entertainment's remarks point by point. Unfortunately, Peace Arch Entertainment's focus wanders so wildly that it never actually finishes any of its points. I think you will notice this in the ensuing discussion. Let us note first of all that many people think of Peace Arch Entertainment's antihumanist, pea-brained plaints as a joke, as something only half-serious. In fact, they're deadly serious. They're the tool by which self-indulgent carousers will make our lives miserable in a lustrum or two. A second all-too-serious item is that Peace Arch Entertainment says that it can override nature. You know, I don't think I have heard a less factually based statement in my entire life. Still, we shouldn't jump to conclusions, even though it is a known fact that I have one itsy-bitsy problem with Peace Arch Entertainment's epigrams. Videlicet, they burn our fair cities to the ground. And that's saying nothing about how if it believes that obscurity, evasiveness, incomprehensibility, indirectness, and ambiguity are marks of depth and brilliance, then it's obvious why it thinks that individual worth is defined by race, ethnicity, religion, or national origin.

I won't mince my words: In order to convince us that anyone who dares to point out that the emperor has no clothes on can expect to suffer hair loss and tooth decay as a result, Peace Arch Entertainment often turns to the old propagandist trick of comparing results brought about by entirely dissimilar causes. How dare Peace Arch Entertainment criticize my values when its are so obviously hopeless?

I happen to believe that Peace Arch Entertainment's objectives are evil. They're evil because they cause global warming; they make your teeth fall out; they give you spots; they incite nuclear war. And, as if that weren't enough, Peace Arch Entertainment's reason is not true reason. It does not seek the truth, but only headlong answers, vainglorious resolutions to conflicts. If Peace Arch Entertainment would abandon its name-calling and false dichotomies it would be much easier for me to address the real issues faced by mankind. Peace Arch Entertainment's sophistries were never about tolerance and equality. That was just window dressing for the "innocents". Rather, the time is always right to do what is right. That's why we must surely advocate social change through dialogue, passive resistance, and nonviolence. The first step in that process is to realize that it wants nothing less than to defy the law of the land, hence its repeated, almost hypnotic, insistence on the importance of its dastardly, neurotic declamations.

Our national media is controlled by wretched cutthroats. That's why you probably haven't heard that Peace Arch Entertainment's editorials represent the most sleazy form of moral turpitude conceivable. Get that straight, please. Any other thinking is blame-shoving or responsibility-dodging. Furthermore, my general thesis is that purists may object to my failure to present specific examples of Peace Arch Entertainment's coldhearted ventures. Fortunately, I do have an explanation for this omission. The explanation demands an understanding of how Peace Arch Entertainment's a pretty good liar most of the time. However, it tells so many lies, it's bound to trip itself up someday. I'll talk a lot more about that later, but first let me finish my general thesis: If I wanted to brainwash and manipulate a large segment of the population, I would convince them that Peace Arch Entertainment's vices are the only true virtues. In fact, that's exactly what Peace Arch Entertainment does as part of its quest to pilfer the national treasure. We've all heard Peace Arch Entertainment yammer and whine about how it's being scapegoated again, the poor dear. Make no mistake about it, if you think that Peace Arch Entertainment has a duty to conceal the facts and lie to the rest of us, under oath if necessary, perjuring itself to help disseminate the True Faith of opportunism, then you're suffering from very serious nearsightedness. You're focusing too much on what Peace Arch Entertainment wants you to see and failing to observe many other things of much greater importance, such as that it contends that its campaigns are all sweetness and light. Excuse me, but where exactly did this little factoid come from? Fogyism doesn't work. So why does Peace Arch Entertainment cling to it? There aren't enough hours in the day to fully answer that question, but consider this: If Peace Arch Entertainment can give us all a succinct and infallible argument proving that the rest of us are an inferior group of people, fit only to be enslaved, beaten, and butchered at the whim of our betters, I will personally deliver its Nobel Prize for Illiberal Rhetoric. In the meantime, we are observing the change in our society's philosophy and values from freedom and justice to corruption, decay, cynicism, and injustice. All of these "values" are artistically incorporated in one person: Peace Arch Entertainment. In any case, there is something in the way of "natural law" that can be stated awkwardly as follows: "There is no reason to toy with our opinions and there is every reason not to." Please do not quote me on that. Instead, work it into a better natural law and enunciate it in clearer and more concise terms. It is immaterial who is credited with the words; the objective is to empower the oppressed to control their own lives.

You don't know how tempted I am to sue the stuffing out of Peace Arch Entertainment. For proof of this fact, I must point out that Peace Arch Entertainment's memoirs are uniformly riddled by an unbelievable degree of ignorance. But that's not all: Its disciples' thinking is fenced in by many constraints. Their minds are not free because they dare not be. Peace Arch Entertainment is known for walking into crowded rooms and telling everyone there that we should avoid personal responsibility. Try, if you can, to concoct a statement better calculated to show how mean-spirited Peace Arch Entertainment is. You can't do it. Not only that, but once one begins thinking about free speech, about shameless lumpenproletariats who use ostracism and public opinion to prevent the airing of views contrary to their own craven beliefs, one realizes that it does not tolerate any view that differs from its own. Rather, Peace Arch Entertainment discredits and discards those people who contradict it along with the ideas that they represent.

In the course of my work, I regularly come in contact with what I call incomprehensible warmongers, and most of them also feel that it's undoubtedly a tragedy that Peace Arch Entertainment's goal in life is apparently to diminish society's inducements to good behavior. Here, I use the word "tragedy" as the philosopher Whitehead used it. Whitehead stated that "the essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things," which I interpret as saying that we need to look beyond the most immediate and visible problems with Peace Arch Entertainment. We need to look at what is behind these problems and understand that Peace Arch Entertainment is extremely obscene. In fact, let's see what my handy-dandy Obscene-O-Meter has to say about it. Whoa! The needle is off the scale! It's a good thing I checked, because if the past is any indication of the future, Peace Arch Entertainment will once again attempt to turn me, a typically mild-mannered person, into a wanton vat of credentialism. Peace Arch Entertainment has convinced a lot of people that our elected officials should be available for purchase by special-interest groups. One must pause in admiration at this triumph of media manipulation. In order to solve the big problems with Peace Arch Entertainment, we must first understand these problems, and to understand them, we must examine the warp and woof of its pleas. I sometimes feel like Peace Arch Entertainment has forced us into a danse macabre with its noxious inveracities leading us to the grave, period. I admit I have a tendency to become a bit insensitive whenever I rebuke Peace Arch Entertainment for trying to trivialize certain events that are particularly special to us all. While I am desirous of mending this tiny personality flaw, Peace Arch Entertainment's logodaedaly is frighteningly successful at convincing the most disgraceful scum you'll ever see that its opinions represent the opinions of the majority -- or even a plurality. In fact, I have said that to Peace Arch Entertainment on many occasions and I will keep on saying it until it stops trying to interfere with the most important principles of democracy. Now, I'm no fan of Peace Arch Entertainment's, but still, Peace Arch Entertainment craves more power. I say we should give it more power -- preferably, 10,000 volts of it.

I believe I have finally figured out what makes organizations like Peace Arch Entertainment replace Robert's Rules of Order with "facilitated consensus building" at all important meetings. It appears to be a combination of an overactive mind, lack of common sense, assurance of one's own moral propriety, and a total lack of exposure to the real world. To be quite frank, at no time in the past did the most mudslinging rapscallions you'll ever see shamble through the streets of cities, demanding rights they imagine some supernatural power has bestowed upon them. From what I know of Peace Arch Entertainment's precepts, it is saying essentially three things:

1. Its fairy tales epitomize wholesome family entertainment.
2. Space aliens are out to lay eggs in our innards or ooze their alien hell-slime all over us.
3. Everyone with a different set of beliefs from its is going to get a one-way ticket to Hell.

Obviously, all three of these are indeed closed-minded.

The long and short of it is that Peace Arch Entertainment will stop at nothing to devise stupid scams to get money for nothing. This may sound outrageous, but if it were fiction I would have thought of something more credible. As it stands, what we have been imparting to Peace Arch Entertainment -- or what it has been eliciting from us -- is a half-submerged, barely intended logic, contaminated by wishes and tendencies we prefer not to acknowledge. It is disgraceful that, with a wink and a smile, Peace Arch Entertainment has signified its approval of featherbrained simpletons who create a kind of psychic pain at the very root of the modern mind. I could substantiate what I'm saying about the most overbearing fence-sitters you'll ever see, but I don't feel that that's necessary, since we all know what they're like. Peace Arch Entertainment's values are based on two fundamental errors. They assume that Peace Arch Entertainment has the mandate of Heaven to block streets and traffic to the extent that ambulances can't get through. And they promote the mistaken idea that its decisions are based on reason.

There is a vast empirical literature on this subject. Some people might object to that claim, and if they do, my response is: Peace Arch Entertainment is frightened that we might rage, rage against the dying of the light. That's why it's trying so hard to prevent whistleblowers from reporting that life is too short to have to put up with it. I trust that I have not shocked any of you by writing that. However, I do realize that some of my readers may feel that much of what I have penned about Peace Arch Entertainment in this letter is heartless and in violation of our Christian duty to love everyone. If so, I can say only that every time Peace Arch Entertainment tries, it gets increasingly successful in its attempts to evade responsibility. This dangerous trend means not only death for free thought, but for imagination as well. I may be beating a dead horse here, but I do want to point out that Peace Arch Entertainment uses big words like "anthropocentrical" to make itself sound important. For that matter, benevolent Nature has equipped another puny creature, the skunk, with a means of making itself seem important, too. Although Peace Arch Entertainment's slurs may reek like a skunk, Peace Arch Entertainment's faithfuls often reverse the normal process of interpretation. That is, they value the unsaid over the said, the obscure over the clear.

Nobody wants Peace Arch Entertainment to promote evil ideologies such as metagrobolism, but Peace Arch Entertainment insists on doing it anyway. To some extent, if I recall correctly, Peace Arch Entertainment runs at the first sign of trouble. No joke. I could be wrong about any or all of this, but at the moment, the above fits what I know of history, people, and current conditions. If anyone sees anything wrong or has some new facts or theories on this, I'd love to hear about them.

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Why are people so defensive of a company looking to cash in on a sad event in our history? With all of the opportunities to profit from over 5,000 publicly traded companies, why choose to make a buck on projects like this.
How can this be defended, I'm not saying there aren't worse events in history, but cashing in...seems kind of crappy.

I vote...
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I appreciate your rational tone. I would guess that all, or virtually all, of the people on the board invested in PAE as a company because it has many, many irons in the fire. Ch. 27 just happens to be one of them. The Boycott folks, like many people with an issue about which they're passionate, don't see anything but that issue. However, in reality Ch 27 is just a small piece of PAE.

Certainly, an owner of PAE could find Ch 27 sufficiently objectionable that he decides to divest. My own view is that nothing is beyond the pale for consideration in a book or movie, and that if you're going to use the profit motive as an argument against books and movies no book should ever be written and no film ever made.

I think CH 27 could be a good movie, it could be a bad movie. It could be a tasteless movie that should never have been made. But we won't know that until we see it. If it's a bad movie, failure will be punishment enough for all those involved in it, including the investors.

You Boycott folks should not act as though you've got a monopoly on morality, taste, or respect for John Lennon. The movie will come out and we'll ALL have a say about whether it's good or bad, vilely opportunistic or thoughtful and enligtening. Hey, let's not burn the books --
especially those that we haven't read.

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But by using that argument, all production companies are guilty - Paramount, Dreamworks, Sony, New Line Cinema among all others. Movies about WWI and WWI; movies about Vietnam; movies like Schindler's List and Black Hawk Down; there are so many - these are all movies made about sad times and about other people's miseries. They were also all made to generate revenues and profits. Whether it is right to do so or not, is a moral debate, and not a debate on whether Peace Arch, as a whole, is crappy or not - at least in my opinion.....

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n none of these situations was the sole purpose of death or destruction done for the sole purpose of gaining fame. I (begrudgingly) understand political, religious, or cultural differences that lead to wars or violence. Although its horrible in all situations, sometimes in reality, i suppose its unavoidable.
But the idea of making this film and rewarding the killer...I just find it totally offensive. Believe me, I'm not with the morality police, i'm all about freedom of speech and artistic expression. I don't even have a problem with the film being made, its the idea of profiting from the film that bothers me.
Had it been done as part of a research project for student on the mentally ill, with proceeds going to charity, it would still suck, but I could live with it.

But there must be a better way to make a buck, hell the writer could have lit himself on fire for reality TV and gotten wealthy (if he survived).

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