The 2026 film, I Want Your Sex, is
ostensibly about sex, for the film is saturated with that leitmotif, but the narrative
is actually a critique of California culture, with European culture playing a minor
role to provide a contrast. Generally, comedy can be used by screenwriters as a
means by which audiences can accept, or at least acknowledge criticism that
would otherwise be met with ferocious denial befitting a drug addiction. In
2026, the sheer dogmatism of ideologically-soaked imposing at will, as
if with facts of reason rather than the gloss of merely subjective opinion, was
the mentality of the day afflicting (young) adults under 40 years-old in California. Film can expose such banality to the light of day
and thus serve as a self-correcting agent for a societal or sub-societal
culture, for the human brain, standing on its own as arrogance on stilts, may be woefully and even unretrievably vulnerable to purblindness when beliefs and values are in the grip of
ideological idolatry.
The full essay is at "I Want Your Sex."
