2019’s Joker is 2020’s Reality

From American Thinker.com (July 29):

The year 2020 in America feels like the end scene in 2019’s Joker where Gotham burns as the citizenry embraces the chaos spurred on by chaos-messiah, Arthur Fleck, the Joker. For the last four years, an audience of Americans watch America embrace the chaos-messiahship of the left as their saints questioned the legitimacy of the 2016 election, immediately sought impeachment, flip-flops on COVID-19, and now stands idly by as long-reigning progressive governments in Minneapolis, Seattle, and Portland descend into Jokeresque chaos.

When the movie debuted last October, opinion pieces from left to right decried the movie. Claims from leftists wanted the movie pulled simply because of the portrayal of potentially harsh realities of mental illness. Conservative Christians wrote blogs on the nihilistic, postmodernism threatening the worldview of our children.

The harsh realities of mental illness in America and how we take care of our mentally ill deserve exploration and extrapolation. Progressives should not be afraid of important thinking on critical issues. The movie does not impose nihilism or postmodernism onto the audience to prove Arthur Fleck’s epiphany “there is no meaning.” The movie is not indoctrination. It is indictment.

Instead, the movie communicates that mental illness is a real issue. Nihilism is the sign of a crazy person. Postmodernism fulfills “ideas have consequences; bad ideas have victims.” All of this is crazy. It leads us to more crazy.

Who realizes that it’s crazy to not address mental health issues and buy into worldviews of nihilism and postmodernism?

The audience. The audience knows this is all crazy.

Specifically, the audience knows Arthur Fleck is the Joker or has the prescience that he will become the Joker at some point. It’s just a question of how and when. When the audience generally watches a movie, it usually has an inside-track the characters seem to not be able to pick up on. The audience sees backstory. Parallel storylines. Emphases on key moments.

The point of Joker is that he’s mentally ill. To be non-pc, he’s crazy. Everyone can see or sense Arthur Fleck is crazy. That he’s dangerous. Does the system care? No, it’s a bureaucracy, so cutting budgets for necessary mental health programs only cuts funds for faceless human beings. Who you don’t directly interact with cannot hurt you… [read more]

I’ve seen the movie Joker. The ending is like what is happening today by mobs in the streets.