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The Americans are perhaps, the most xenophobic race in the whole wide world. Their latest display of xenophobia is the movie 2012.  Asteroids falling from the sky, cities being ravaged by storms, asphalt cracking up to reveal the vicious tentacles of aliens- all this so trademark American and so trademark Hollywood that it has begun to bore me with its predictability. Do not assume that I am writing this after watching 2012. No I haven’t and nor do I intend to. But the point is, this race is disgustingly preoccupied with fantasies of being bombed, flooded or attacked en masse.

If you give it a thought, you’ll discover that the first UFOs were sighted in that country, the most number of xenophobic movies and comic strips were produced there and consequently the largest amount of creative energy was perhaps directed towards portraying whole cities (mostly New York) being destroyed by aliens, goons, evil powers and so on. The focal point or climax of such attacks come with the falling of either the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building, depending on the inclination or preference of the director.

2012 is of course going to be another such movie and I am not going to spend a single buck after it. Honestly, I am tired of the likes of Independence Day and Day After Tomorrow. I do not care if the Americans are being attacked by aliens or the Jabberwocky itself. And the worst part of such movies is when the patriotic ‘Eagles’ of the nation set about saving the world or when the father of the world (American President) gives out a war cry pleading to the other heads of states to help him in his holy fight to save the world.

I wonder how even as late as the 21st century, these people cannot get over their great fantasy regarding the aliens, etc. Do they get some kind of kick out of such imaginings? If such is the case, I’ll leave them to their private communal fancy.