Tom, Hollywood left-wing cinematic attacks on “psychotic individualism” are nothing new. This Wednesday, February 20 at 8:30 AM EST, Turner Classic Movies will air the granddaddy of the genre, the 1941 Ernst Lubitsch comedy, That Uncertain Feeling. Actor Burgess Meredith superbly portrays Alexander Sebastian, a quirky egocentric “individualist” who hates all “isms” and his fellow inferior human beings. His boastful misanthropic contempt for humanity knows no bounds. At one point in the film husband Melvyn Douglas spews out the most disgusting and loathsome epithet at Meredith, his rival for the romantic affection of the movie’s leading lady Merle Oberon. He calls him an “isolationist.” The Molotov-Ribbentrop … Continue reading “Psychotic Individualism”