Confessions of a Liberal Puritan

Sorry it's been so long since I last posted. I'm resolving to make July a month in which I do a better job of keeping up with my FL and all the important and interesting stuff that goes around on LJ while I'm doing other things.

Meanwhile, I'm here to report that I just saw the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" yesterday afternoon, and I join in with the critics and viewers who say that this is a wonderful and surprisingly entertaining movie (for an "End of the World as We Know it" film, and one starring Al Gore, moreover). GO SEE THIS FILM at your earliest opportunity, if you haven't already.

For a BtVS/AtS fan, there's a very familiar feel to "An Inconvenient Truth", in that while the message is deadly serious, the manner in which it's presented is actually very upbeat and irreverent and amusing. Above all, there is hope in every other line of this movie -- an optimistic message that says that we've faced impossible odds before and survived, but that we have to act now, because NOW is when we have a very real chance to both save and change the world, if we have the will and the courage and the humor to do so.

Even if you're not a 'Buffy' fan per se, and don't care how much Al Gore has turned into a later season Rupert Giles (no longer just the humorously fuddy-duddy token authority figure, nor Mr. Exposition -- if Giles was ever truly either of those things, -- but an effective and engaging presenter of essential information and encouragement), I'd suggest that anyone at all interested in education in any form will find this film a fascinating case study in how to be an extremely effective and memorable teacher. Who knew? Al Gore can teach rings around most of my professors, and I suspect around most of yours.

Go. See. Laugh. Reflect. Enjoy. Get fired up.