Near the opening of movie Blade Runner, Harry Bryant, who portrays a Captain in the Rep-Detect Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, coaxes Deckard, a blade runner played by Harrison Ford, to rejoin LAPD’s Rep-Detect unit with the ultimatum, “You’re either one of us or you’re ‘little people’.” The Rep-Detect unit is tasked with hunting errant replicants [humanoid robots] who have thrown the city into chaos. Once back on the force, Deckard deploys his tracking prowess to find and take out Rachel [Sean Young], a replicant-shrew whom the force has of yet been unable to subdue. Rachel is neither ‘little people’ nor a push-over and can suddenly become alluring, intelligent, fierce, witty, vulnerable, and a dang dangerous acrobat.
Ecclesiastes 7-9
Neither wickedness nor good can save us from time and opportunity, from the occasion of sin or enlightenment. Refinement benefits little when one chooses debauchery to mess up one’s soul. Like the non-smoker who takes a lighted fag into one’s lungs, it’s counted worse in drag damage than an habitual smoker who might puff a…
