A tidy room will compel you to be reliable and tough? And ‘reliable and tough’ is the opposite of being a ‘do-gooder’?
OH, oh, I know… George Lakoff can explain it. This is that ‘strict father figure/authoritarian’/’anyone who has it bad deserves it, and therefore doesn’t deserve help’ thing, right?
A bit of a fatal contradiction isn’t there? I mean “Fix the problems that present themselves to you” – and “Don’t be a do gooder”.
Well, what if the problems that present themselves to you are racism, sexism, homophobia, economic inertia deepening class inequality (As well as punctuating all the other problems), religious bullshit artists preying on the vulnerable and idiots who proclaim atheists to be murderers – who then try and come up with some weird alternate definition of atheism, God and “is” in order to make it sound like they aren’t talking the biggest load of tosh since the old testament?
What if the problems that present themselves to you aren’t particularly the condition of your room? What if you want to look at your entire neighbourhood and say “Hey, I want to come here and think ‘a civilised human being could live here'” – and doing that means maybe acting like civilised human beings, rather than like our entire world society is some Mad Max dystopia where if you’re starving, well it sucks to be you?
I mean a civilised human being can live here – well it is a bit difficult if budget cuts have led to a situation where you can’t drink the water. Good old H20 is pretty necessary to civilised life. Maybe it is that I live in a fairly arid country that makes me more aware of that. Being able to open the windows and not have smog rolling in sure would help with the whole cleaning your room project wouldn’t it?
Maybe, just maybe, all of this “do gooder” stuff is in fact people cleaning their rooms, and telling people not to do it, and in fact to rather ‘clean their rooms’ is telling people to do two contradictory things.
But hey that’s me, a guy who never did quite get why conservatives love to use the sorts of insults employed by comic book villains.
*applause*
Fozzie’s reaction at 0:20 is pretty much mine.
No, wait, what?
A tidy room will compel you to be reliable and tough? And ‘reliable and tough’ is the opposite of being a ‘do-gooder’?
OH, oh, I know… George Lakoff can explain it. This is that ‘strict father figure/authoritarian’/’anyone who has it bad deserves it, and therefore doesn’t deserve help’ thing, right?
A bit of a fatal contradiction isn’t there? I mean “Fix the problems that present themselves to you” – and “Don’t be a do gooder”.
Well, what if the problems that present themselves to you are racism, sexism, homophobia, economic inertia deepening class inequality (As well as punctuating all the other problems), religious bullshit artists preying on the vulnerable and idiots who proclaim atheists to be murderers – who then try and come up with some weird alternate definition of atheism, God and “is” in order to make it sound like they aren’t talking the biggest load of tosh since the old testament?
What if the problems that present themselves to you aren’t particularly the condition of your room? What if you want to look at your entire neighbourhood and say “Hey, I want to come here and think ‘a civilised human being could live here'” – and doing that means maybe acting like civilised human beings, rather than like our entire world society is some Mad Max dystopia where if you’re starving, well it sucks to be you?
I mean a civilised human being can live here – well it is a bit difficult if budget cuts have led to a situation where you can’t drink the water. Good old H20 is pretty necessary to civilised life. Maybe it is that I live in a fairly arid country that makes me more aware of that. Being able to open the windows and not have smog rolling in sure would help with the whole cleaning your room project wouldn’t it?
Maybe, just maybe, all of this “do gooder” stuff is in fact people cleaning their rooms, and telling people not to do it, and in fact to rather ‘clean their rooms’ is telling people to do two contradictory things.
But hey that’s me, a guy who never did quite get why conservatives love to use the sorts of insults employed by comic book villains.
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http://www.chasingamazingblog.com/2014/04/23/whos-the-boss-kingpin-as-spider-mans-main-silver-age-antagonist/
Holy Shit! I’d never actually heard this mook’s voice before. No room left for parody.