{"id":6902,"date":"2025-03-20T01:52:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T08:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/we-are-living-in-a-90s-action-movie\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T01:52:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T08:52:51","slug":"we-are-living-in-a-90s-action-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/we-are-living-in-a-90s-action-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"We are living in a 90s action movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not a hundred percent sure on what irony is, but I think<\/em> this might be irony:<\/p>\n

Like, all through the 80’s and 90’s, we made violent action movies where the protagonist is a dude that came back from the Vietnam War angry<\/em> and struggling to fit back into a society that underwent a massive change while he was gone. And then in like, "Rambo," he came back and the police of a small town looked at him with all the suspicion of a police department that stereotyped Vietnam War vets as Big Problems. Which resulted in John Rambo becoming The Biggest<\/em> of Problems.<\/p>\n

Those cops likely had to explain a lot to the townspeople later on.<\/p>\n

And then after we enjoyed all those action movies where some guy one-man armied his way through a mass murder event level of bad guys, we started being like "Therapy is a good thing. People that come back from military service should likely have some therapy, and the government should pay for it as a return for their service." So there’s been a lot more mental health efforts for those that served in Iraq and Afghanistan or Gaza than has ever<\/em> been provided to those that served during Vietnam War times.<\/p>\n

And now, rich dudes are making the brilliant<\/em> decision to shutdown the VA and to destroy Social Security. Like, they are literally<\/em> stepping into the bad guy roles of 90s action movie villains. The leader guy even has a really noticeable accent!<\/p>\n

It is the year 2025. That’s like the time period they’d show at the start of the infodump they’d put at the beginning of a 90s action movie.<\/p>\n

We are one "angry dude having a bad day" away from watching a dozen news stories about some guys Bruce Willis’ing their way through their own protagonist stories.<\/p>\n

I don’t know whether to be terrified, or to stock up on popcorn in preparation for the show to start.<\/p>\n

~Harper Kingsley<\/p>\n

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I’m not a hundred percent sure on what irony is, but I think this might be irony: Like, all through the 80’s and 90’s, we made violent action movies where the protagonist is a dude that came back from the Vietnam War angry and struggling to fit back into a society that underwent a massive…<\/p>\n Read More<\/span> We are living in a 90s action movie<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","post-6902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pPoL-1Nk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1678,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/roundup-01\/","url_meta":{"origin":6902,"position":0},"title":"Roundup 01","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"September 7, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Trailer For \"Psycho Beach Party\" Vietnam Veteran Talks to Mitt Romney About Gay Marriage Obama and Romney Tackle 14 Top Science Questions From Scientific American Bill Clinton's Full DNC Speech 2012 \u00a0 Trailer For Psycho Beach Party The trailer makes it seem kind of over the top, but I actually\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Movies"","block_context":{"text":"Movies","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/category\/movies-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":153,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/movies-to-watch\/","url_meta":{"origin":6902,"position":1},"title":"Movies To Watch","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"November 13, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a general list of movies to watch. 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