Sahara

A recent conversation involving academicians, scholars, professional critics, and members of the mainstream news media, whose focus is entertainment, regarding the pop culture phenom called the web log or blog, resulted in the revelation of certain truths and related facts: Those who would be kingmakers tend to be unabashed, unapologetic bigots and elitists, armed with politically-charged agendas, thinly disguised and presented as noted opinion.

Simply and bluntly: These otherwise pillars of the community are whores, who can be had for a price, for the singular and undeniable purpose of perversion and deviancy.

By way of this admission, then, it follows logically and reasonably, these armchair experts are justifiably and understandably threatened by a given blogger, who is not so easily had for coin, regardless the amount offered; they are threatened, then, by the obvious, conspicious by its absence: Their lack of morals and ethics.

From this revelation one can gain a certain conclusion: The checks-and-balance system long lacking now exists, and because it does the elders of the popular culture have been forced to accountability and responsibility for their willful and deliberate failings and shortcomings regarding conclusions and consideration of an opinionated nature.

I mention this conversation and its related concerns not to impress but to make a point: Of late, more often than not, it is the independent voice that influences the masses. It is the independent thought and subsequent opinion that matters, and not the established soothsayer, now long in the tooth, blind in one ear, and deaf in one eye.

Proof of this is the movie "Sahara", starring Matthew McConaughey, as Dirk Pitt. For months prior to its theatrical release elders of the pop culture community have spoken loudly and often about the displeasure expressed by Clive Cussler, the novelist who penned the novel that inspired the movie "Sahara", and his legal actions to prevent Paramount from making the movie resulting. By way of this collective discontent the armchair experts hold this movie is certain to be a failure at the box office, and that they know this because they are who they are: Discerners of taste in the form of films and movies.

As an independent voice I respond: They are wrong. "Sahara" will succeed at the box office, and big. Not because of their remarks regarding it and the subsequent curiosity generated. Not because Clive Cussler fans want to show their support of him as a novelist. Not because of McConaughey's presence--although that doesn't hurt in the financial end run. But because a good story is at hand. Because a good story is told accordingly.

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