Star Crossed

An ongoing exploration of the red star and its association with homosexuality.

'Another Country' is a play by Julian Mitchell (and a movie starring Rupert Everett) loosely based upon the life of the spy Guy Burgess, examining the effect that his homosexuality and his exposure to Marxism have on him and the hypocrisy and snobbery of the British public school system. The country he spied for happened to fly a symbolic red star (It's a fabulous film, BTW).

Nowadays, even though Communism is virtually dead ("Red" China is even more capitalist than the USA, which is probably why it gets such bad press - outdoing the original rapists at their own game...) the great fear of global Communism always plays well with NWO conspiracy theorists.

I wonder what sort of economic system Jesus would set up in his millennial rule? Would it perhaps be similar to that set up in the book of Acts?

All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. --Acts 2:44-45

Oh, say it isn't so! The language of radical socialism reflects that of the Borg - collectives, workers (worker bees are drones) - and it reminds me how Hollywood's (and Satan's) job is to portray the Divine Collective (I AM) as something to be dreaded.

Star Man, from the Rush album 2112, released in 1976.

Rush presents more dystopian alien invasion. From Wikipedia: In the year 2062, a galaxy-wide war results in the union of all planets under the rule of the Red Star of the Solar Federation. The world is controlled by the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx, who determine the content of all reading matter, songs, pictures - every facet of life during the year 2112 ("The Temples of Syrinx").

"All it means is the abstract man against the masses. The red star symbolizes any collectivist mentality." - Neil Peart (Creem, 1982).

Fear the red star.

Inverting the meme, I figure alien Jesus will show up in a moon-shaped spaceship emblazoned with a big red star. It'll be filled with homosexual clones who can barely stop fucking each other long enough to get an invasion underway. Jesus will have sexy little horns (like a lamb) on his forehead, and a raging rod-of-iron (ready for his "bride"). The ship will stink of stale beer and cigar smoke (they all smoke like chimneys) and from giant speakers will blast 'It's Raining Men' by the Weather Girls.

No wonder Earth goes to war... heaven is a gay bar.

NOTES:

The original 1981 production of 'Another Country' opened at the Greenwich Theatre in south-east London, and then moved to the West End (girls). In the movie, Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, Diana, Princess of Wales's younger brother, is present in three scenes as an extra without any dialogue.

Heaven really IS a gay bar. Interesting logo.

"Commie pinko fag" was the classic mid 20th century American slur.

A gay bar in a Vigorsol Chewing Gum commercial, 1999.