Mick Jagger Syndrome

When I see movies of the type made by M. Night Shyamalan, Carly Simon jumps into my head and sings:

"You're so vain. I'll bet you think this song is about you."

She released the song in 1972 and it was about her ex lover Mick Jagger and his "mating proclivities" of the peacock variety.  But it seems they remained "just good friends" as Mick joined in doing backing vocals.

But now Carly is singing:

"BECAUSE you're so vain, you bet yer balls this movie is about YOU."

But as always, "There's nobody Home".

"You" of course is the ubiquitous J Doe who is so busy worshiping HAL for his American Apple Pie that he has not seen that "someone left the Pie out in the rain", and nobody is about to convince him of these "issues".  And of course he can't get a "heads up" [or a head job for that matter] as his head is always down in his IPad, Twittering his testosterone away.

In fact he does not even KNOW or WANT to know who HAL is.  All he knows is HAL "communicates" his/her message via The Monolith, which is a user-friendly [if not stupid] "fellow Umurikin - but better paid than himself" reading from an Auto Cue machine, "with God on our side".

The message that J Doe MUST start to THINK is the subject of a great number of movies, even down to the satirical "footnote" of American Beauty "Look Closer" [but even with sarcastic prompting and prodding, he still refuses]

Of course all of this relates back to the genius mantra of Hitler "It is most fortunate for governments that the people do not think".  And of course the non-thinking is not natural, but one must be "Carefully Taught, before they are 6 or 7 or 8" [South Pacific - 1958], and Hitler would surely rollover in his grave seeing just how well the American System has done, even out-propagandering his own propaganda, producing what Nietzsche called the Herd Mentality/Morality, currently pronked as Political Correctness [with extreme prejudice].