"We've got to pick a film that's going to sell in our area. If it's not going to sell, we're not going to take it," said Lisa Buzzelli, director of an IMAX theater in Charleston that is not showing the movie. "Many people here believe in creationism, not evolution."It will be kind of interesting to have Dark Age societies right on our (future) southern border, sort of like a living history museum.
Wednesday, March 23, 2005
...and Throw Georgia and South Carolina in for Good Measure
In Jesustan, your belief trumps science, and your ignorance is rewarded.
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Okay, let's ignore the IMAX dustup, and examine the fight against the teaching of evolution, or sex education, or the desire to present the Civil War as about anything but slavery. Look, I lived in Alabama for a long time, and on a daily basis dealt with what I can only characterize as willful ignorance of modern scientific process, critical thought, and simple discourse whenever it might contradict or even question fundamentalist ideology. In the interest of satire I might have unfairly characterized a whole region, and for that I'll apologize. There are some enclaves of enlightenment throughout the South, to be sure. But to consider that people on the whole will vote their mythology over their personal economic reality, or jeopardize their childrens' futures by corrupting curricula in schools to match what they should be getting in their churches reveals a regional characteristic that I never found when living in the West, or in Europe.
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