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\u201cIt’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.<\/em>\u201d \u2013 Bill Watterson<\/p>\n

In the brilliantly funny 2001 film\u00a0Zoolander<\/em>, Ben Stiller plays a past-his-prime male model named Derek Zoolander. As the plot unfolds, Zoolander is unknowingly groomed and brainwashed by evil fashion designer Jacobim Mugatu (played by Will Ferrell) to assassinate the newly elected prime minister of Malaysia. The prime minister campaigned on a platform of raising the country\u2019s minimum wage and ending child labor \u2013 thereby threatening the profitability of the fashion industry \u2013 and must be eliminated. Mugatu judges Zoolander to be just dim-witted enough for the task.<\/p>\n

The movie is absurd and yet so well executed that it works. The sheer number of derivative memes you can find on Reddit and in the Twitterverse pay tribute to its many memorable scenes. One meme stands out from the rest and serves as an apt expression of the spectacle we\u2019re scratching our feathers over today. Zoolander proclaims to have developed three signature looks: \u201cFerrari,\u201d \u201cBlue Steel,\u201d and \u201cLe Tigre.\u201d\u00a0GQ<\/em>\u00a0astutely\u00a0describes<\/a>\u00a0them as being completely identical, with \u201ca raised brow, pursed lips and the misguided confidence that everyone knows the difference between them.<\/em>\u201d After observing the crowd\u2019s adoring reaction to Zoolander\u2019s latest flash of Blue Steel on the runway an exacerbated Mugatu explodes, \u201cThey\u2019re all the same face! Doesn\u2019t anyone notice this?!\u00a0I feel like I\u2019m taking crazy pills!!!<\/strong><\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

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We sympathize with Mugatu\u2019s lament, observing our political class translate its deep misunderstanding of energy into an equally haphazard set of economic sanctions levied against Russia, totally unaware that they are expressing the same ridiculous face at every opportunity. Before proceeding, we should note that pointing out the flaws in the West\u2019s war response is\u00a0not<\/strong><\/em> \u201cpro-Putin,\u201d nor is it \u201cunpatriotic\u201d as some propagandists on Twitter would have you believe…<\/p>\n

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Crazy Pills \u201cIt’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.\u201d \u2013 Bill Watterson In the brilliantly funny 2001 film\u00a0Zoolander, Ben Stiller plays a past-his-prime male model named Derek Zoolander. As the plot unfolds, Zoolander is unknowingly groomed and brainwashed by evil fashion designer Jacobim Mugatu (played by Will Ferrell) to assassinate the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5],"tags":[31681,1997,328,694],"class_list":["post-62803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-doomberg","tag-economic-sanctions","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62804,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62803\/revisions\/62804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}