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A Day Without A Mexican

Jayhawker Soule

Jayhawker Soule

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A Day Without A Mexican

Set in modern-day California and based on Sergio Arau and Yareli Arizmendi’s short of the same title, the much anticipated “A Day Without a Mexican,” starring Yareli Arizmendi (Like Water for Chocolate, 1992) as Lila Rodríguez, the sole remaining Latino in California after 14 million Latinos mysteriously disappear, delves into the economic, political and social implications of this disaster on the Golden State’s way of life. Experts pose questions and offer theories: Could this be a UFO kidnapping? Biological terrorism? The Apocalypse and Latinos are the chosen ones? Or perhaps they just left because they were tired of being taken for granted.

As time goes by, the State continues to deteriorate: Garbage has taken over the streets and tears are permanently painted on the faces of most citizens as the 5th largest economy in the world tumbles. The realization that what has disappeared is the very thing that keeps the “California Dream” running – cooks, gardeners, policemen, nannies, doctors, farm and construction workers, entertainers, athletes, teachers as well as the largest growing market of consumers – has turned Latinos and their return into the number one priority in the State. But as despair turns into quiet sorrow, deeply felt memories and heartfelt appreciation yield unexpected results.

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They just silently disappear, and the result is chaos.

Now imagine, instead, that the departure was far more devastating. Imagine that it was accompanied by waves of plagues, the resulting agricultural catastrophy, the destruction of the military and the consequent disruption of defenses and diplomatic relationships, and the death of hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children.

Then imagine all of this happening without leaving a trace - not a trace in the local archives, and not a trace in the records of neighboring areas.

This is the Exodus, an epic of a subserviant people who constituted, if the Bible is to be taken at its word, roughly the same percentage of the Egyptian population as do today's Mexicans with respect to the population of California.
 
painted wolf

painted wolf

Grey Muzzle
goodness... how would the yuppies survive?
who would pick our strawberries?
who would we blame our problems on?

sounds like a fun read... I 'll have to look for this one.

wa:-do
 
Jayhawker Soule

Jayhawker Soule

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painted wolf said:
goodness... how would the yuppies survive?
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Why would you find sarcasm and ridicule appropriate, painted wolf? If you believe that my point is flawed, I would much prefer that you present your reasons. Thanks.
 
Q

(Q)

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Ok, imagination mode has been turned on and is functioning - images of death and destruction are flooding my cerebral cortex in livng color.

I still don't see the point.

The movie trailer looks good, though.
 
Jayhawker Soule

Jayhawker Soule

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(Q) said:
Ok, imagination mode has been turned on and is functioning - images of death and destruction are flooding my cerebral cortex in livng color. I still don't see the point.
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Hello, (Q). I can only assume that I did a remarkably poor job. My apologies. The "point" is as follows.

The movie paints a picture of the catastrophic effects of an economy that loses roughly a third of its (subservient) population. It can be viewed as a testament to the importance of that population.

But it can also be seen as a tale comparable to the Biblical Exodus, for which there is zero archaeological evidence. Those who defend this tale seek to explain its absence in the Egyptian record by claiming a clever cover-up by an embarrassed Pharoah. The fictive example provided by A Day Without A Mexican suggests just how silly such a claim really is.
 
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Alaric

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Deut, have you heard about the theory regarding the volcanic eruption at the Greek island of Santorini around that time? Poisonous clouds of ash killing cattle and people and poisoning the water, plagues of frogs (like what apparantly happened in connection with the eruption of Mt. St. Helens), hailstorms, and darkness; the 'pillar of cloud by day and pillar of fire by night' is of course the eruption seen on the horizon; and the whole thing caused a tidal wave that first drew all the water out the the Sea of Reeds (as the actual text reads) to come crashing down on the pursuing Egyptians. Pretty plausible, and I know I would be pretty damn religious if I was one of those Israelis who escaped.
 
Jayhawker Soule

Jayhawker Soule

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Alaric said:
Deut, have you heard about the theory regarding the volcanic eruption at the Greek island of Santorini around that time? Poisonous clouds of ash killing cattle and people and poisoning the water, plagues of frogs (like what apparantly happened in connection with the eruption of Mt. St. Helens), hailstorms, and darkness; the 'pillar of cloud by day and pillar of fire by night' is of course the eruption seen on the horizon; and the whole thing caused a tidal wave that first drew all the water out the the Sea of Reeds (as the actual text reads) to come crashing down on the pursuing Egyptians. Pretty plausible, and I know I would be pretty damn religious if I was one of those Israelis who escaped.
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Good afternoon, Alaric.

Actually, I read Pelligrino's Unearthing Atlantis back when it first came out and found it enjoyable. Nevertheless, you appear to have a very low threshhold for plausibility. For example, there is extensive evidence here supporting a mid-17th century BCE date for the eruption, i.e., coincident with the Second Intermediate Period in Egypt and West Semitic hegemony of Palestine. Unfortunately, the Thera event explains the Biblical Plagues "theory" is no more plausible or compelling that is the equally common the Black Sea event explains the Biblical Flood "theory".
 
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Alaric

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Why not? You can imagine Moses capitalizing on natural disasters as warnings form his god, and the pharaoh eventually giving in when things got particularly bad. Perhaps the breakdown in the local economy that you are talking about was what caused them to give chase.

'When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said, "What have we done? We have let the Israelites go and have lost their services!" ' - Exodus 14.5

I find it particularly implausible that the Exodus story is complete fabrication.
 
Jayhawker Soule

Jayhawker Soule

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Alaric said:
Why not? You can imagine Moses capitalizing on natural disasters ...
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You can imagine anything you wish, but you succeed only in impressing others with your capacity to imagine. Unlike your imagination, however, historical events, when real, occur in context. Feel free to come up with any coherent scenario dating the Exodus to the mid 17th century BCE. If you prefer theist sites, The Date of the Exodus is rather good on this topic.

"Gee whiz - Thera could cause plagues!" is not very good history. In fact, it's not even particularly compelling imagination.
 
painted wolf

painted wolf

Grey Muzzle
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woah.. down their boy... I was agreeing with you actually...

unless your a yuppie that like to blame his political problems on mexican immigrents while eating the strawberries that they pick for less than minimum wage...

why would you feel the need to accentuate my name anyway?

wa:-do
 
Jayhawker Soule

Jayhawker Soule

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painted wolf said:
why would you feel the need to accentuate my name anyway?
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Good evening, painted wolf.

I tend to emphasize all usernames as a matter of style. Why would you take that personally and speak in terms of need?
 
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