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07/27/10, 06:28
god damn it Hooker, are you ever funny or interesting? Every single post I read from you feels like triazolam for my fucking SOUL |  | Andrew Breitbart Defends Shirley Sherrod Story
07/27/10, 06:18
Eh, "known commodity" works fine, if you think about it. Don't beat yourself up.
And the village idiot had a purpose -- as an almost sacred clown, the village idiot would run around the town square, holler at respectable women, drink, cry insensibly, blaspheme and pick mock-fights with strangers. The crowds would laugh and jeer at him, sure, but the village idiot played an important role; he was the sociological equivalent of a Contrary, defining the boundaries of good taste and civility, demonstrating (and personifying) the absurdity and futility of transgressing ingrained social mores.
More hegemonic than philosophic, like Breitbart, like his Tea Party, like his GOP.
And like you said, this video is an inversion of that formula. Whereas the village idiot of Ye Olden Days defined the limitations of social conduct - beyond which, everything is "lunacy" - the village idiot today defines the scope of social conduct, pushing the boundaries out a little further each time he is inconvenienced or wants to make a point. The village idiot gave the shopkeep a handful of ashes and tried to convince him of their relative material worth and everyone laughed; Breitbart shills and lies for a 3-minute hit piece and a thousand disciples spring up in his wake - because Breitbart did it, and if Breitbart did it, then it's not wrong. As if the crowds queued up behind the village idiot with handfuls of ash and they truly believed they were clutching diamonds.
I'm just ranting now. Sorry. | | 2053 Nuke Tests
07/16/10, 04:34
jesus fucking christ | | Sonic 2 - weight gain hack
07/16/10, 02:50
Why would it be better?
It's kind of like saying well, the Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved was alright, but I wanted to know who won the race. You kinda miss the point when you take that attitude towards anything gonzo-related. Zack Parsons isn't Jon Ronson. I mean, I get your point; it would have been interesting just to have a bunch of interviews with genuinely depraved and weird individuals. That's always fun. But at the same time, Parsons is trying to understand exactly WHY the internet fucks people up and amplifies their weirdness. He tells a cool story, he comes to some solid conclusions and the book tells you up-front that a bunch of it is fiction. | | 63,000 Gallons of AIDS.
07/16/10, 02:36
I know the dude's insane but I kinda want him to read me bedtime stories. He's just so sonorous. | | Racism at the bus stop
07/15/10, 05:38
Nah, pretty sure Camonk handed you your own ass there, dude. Sorry. | | Truther Girls - What will kill you at the super market
07/15/10, 05:14
Close your eyes and it sounds like Amelie Gillette took a wrong turn in life. | | 'Don't Let Facebook Ruin Your Relationship'
07/15/10, 03:36
i think our work here is done, little buddy. *rides off into the sunset* | | Glenn Beck 2012 Presidential Petition
07/15/10, 03:18
my guesses
- construction manager loses wife in horrible on-site accident; sub-contracts Albanian plasterers to rebuild her from lime mortar and oakum. Results unimpressive but generally functional.
- is like, this close to having a panic attack, like, right now
- purveyor of mum jeans
- furrowing her entire face like a crushed velvet imitation of sealskin in a community college course with solid 20+ years of "TEACHERS JUST HATE ME ON A PERSONAL LEVEL" rhetoric to help explain her exam results
| | 'Don't Let Facebook Ruin Your Relationship'
07/15/10, 03:16
dupe comment, you DUPIST. | | 'Don't Let Facebook Ruin Your Relationship'
07/15/10, 03:15
http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=65494 | | Sonic 2 - weight gain hack
07/15/10, 03:12
Ankle porn already exists. I'm so, so sorry to have to be the one to tell you this. I'm so sorry.
Also: http://www.egs.edu/faculty/jean-baudrillard/articles/plastic-surgery-for-the-other/
Also, look up Zack Parson's My Next Door Neighbor Is A Dragon. Yeah, he's a SA writer, but he's a brilliant SA writer. | | Vietnam Vet Stops Thugs from Robbing his Jewelry Store on Valentine's Day
07/14/10, 17:50
those = that | | Vietnam Vet Stops Thugs from Robbing his Jewelry Store on Valentine's Day
07/14/10, 17:50
Yes, those was the only other option he had, as evidenced by the way he shot that fleeing man in the back. | | Johan Galtung on Democracy Now
07/14/10, 17:04
"HISTORY OF THE SYSTEMS OF THOUGHT"? THE FUCK, MICHEL? THE FUCK IS THAT? THAT AIN'T A SCHOLARLY FIELD. THAT AIN'T SHIT. LIKE, YOU'RE AT WORK, AT STARBUCKS OR WHATEVER, AND EVERYONE'S LIKE "WHAT'D YOU STUDY, MICHEL" AND YOU'RE ALL LIKE "HISTORY OF THE SYSTEMS OF THOUGHT." IMAGINE THAT SHIT, MAN. IMAGINE IT. WHAT A FUCKIN JOKE, MAN.
OUT THE WINDOW WITH YOU, ORDER OF THINGS
HEY, THIS BABY IS RUININ MY BATHWATER | | Johan Galtung on Democracy Now
07/14/10, 03:29
Galtung's awesome, but I kinda want to lock him in a room with Zbigniew Brzezinski and Alexandr Dugin and then JUST WAIT. Just... wait. | | 5SF - Piece for Peace
07/14/10, 03:18
All my dreams have come true. | | James Blues
07/12/10, 06:49
This is really brilliant.
Thanks for uploading it. | | Rare Look Inside Bible Belt Classroom
07/12/10, 06:25
What I don't understand is why public schools don't follow the example of Catholic private schools and institute an elective Religion class. It would introduce religion into a public institution, yeah, but it would also quarantine it. No more God in science class: you go to your Science lesson at 1 PM, get some knowledge in your skull, then head off to your voluntary 2 PM Religion class and either choose to disregard or synthesize the contents of the Science class. Simple. | | Biblical Math
07/12/10, 05:34
cognitivedissonance: It's seriously just a matter of time. The politicization of "secularization" as an independent social value has already begun in America.
Like Martin said in his Revised General Theory on Secularization, traditionally Protestant and Catholic countries are responding to secularization in different ways - Protestantism is clinging to (and evidently fighting for) its long historical presence in the State - from the Church of England to the Fellowship House - whereas Catholicism, generally considered a transnationalist faith since the mediatization, isn't affected by the dismantling of religious influence in the State structure because it has absolutely nothing invested in it.
Essentially, the trajectories of Secularization and Religiousness aren't aligned. But what we're seeing in America now is a really uniquely Protestant event: as mathematics has become indelibly connected to secularization, and secularization MUST be fought, then mathematics has to be a) disregarded or b) re-examined through an imposed lens of religious thought. This isn't a bunch of classroom Christians using calculators to prove that Noah's Ark existed; this is a bunch of Christians re-affirming the absolute necessity of Noah's Ark in the function of the classroom.
So yeah, we're almost definitely going to see neo-Luddism. Or rather, we'll see Abecadarians - the happily, willfully and, most importantly, divinely ignorant. | |
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