Thursday, July 28, 2011

Heroes: Porn Free (Larry Flynt)

Porn free
As free as the wind blows
As free as the grass grows
Porn free to follow your heart

In my case, to follow my heart is to worship the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.  Correspondingly, I admire those whose efforts have validated our Constitutional rights with respect to it.  Larry Flynt is at the very top of that list of trailblazers.
Brazos Bookstore in Houston,
July 27, 2011
I've scandalized Cayley in expressing my admiration for Mr. Flynt and his efforts.  While I've explained to her repeatedly that my interest is in the free speech component of his social contribution, and that I have neither experience with nor interest in pornography, she hasn't yet been able to see past Mr. Flynt's livelihood.  She declined to accompany us to his local book-signing last night for fear that it would expose her to "porn people", but check out the audience:
Free of porn:
A fairly average collection of bookish Americans,
mostly of Baby Boomer age, conservatively dressed, and fairly dull - just like me!
Now if I could only convince her to watch Mr. Flynt's biography with me...
...because THAT is reality; that is a depiction of historical events showing America at it's finest.  A movie like that is so much more than simple creative drama which is entertaining, sure, but fairly mindless and idealistic when compared with the depth and complexity of real life (coincidentally, the Born Free movie was produced within a year of the incorporation of Mr. Flynt's first business enterprises):


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