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Wow. Seriously? Facism and totalitarianism? Propaganda? Aren't we taking this all a wee bit too seriously? It's a TV show, for heaven's sake.

It is created for the sole purpose of selling the items shown in the commercials during the half hour show. You don't naively think Mike Judge had full control of the content of the show, do you? There were producers and execs with their fingers in everything, so it is just plain silly to assume it is some form of pure art that has political will or an agenda to "ridicule someone and damage their self-image". Obviously, the X-Files were the show for you if you believe there is some kind of conspiracy going on here.

Here is my take on good satire: the problem is in the viewer not the creator if they can't step back and laugh at the fact that humans ARE vulgar and stupid, provided the joke is well-crafted and universal. It seems most agree that the jokes were not, in this case.

BTW, Vonnegut has some of the meanest spirited humor ever put to paper, albeit beautiful satire, but that said I am not sure comparing a half-hour commercial TV show to a 300 page novel from a man who worked his craft for generations is even really apples to apples.

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Well, I am just going to say it...let the flames begin. We seem to be willing to cut down our driving, buy "green", and buy "local", but when are we going to just stop buying things we don't really need? The number one way to decrease your drinking footprint is not to drink. Is it a necessity in life? Will you fall down dead without it?

I'm not advocating we live like munks (they make good cider and beer!) But we could start questioning the behaviors we really really enjoy as the places to reduce our footprint. It's easy enough to cut down activities we are ho-hum about (getting to work, the cup we use for our coffee, the bag we use for groceries, etc), but we never seem to be willing to say, "hey! how 'bout we just stop drinking 6 nights a week? can we give up coffee, chocolate, etc at least most of the time?"

Having been pretty darn poor for a period in my life I had no choice but to make those decisions, and I'll tell you, life was perfectly ok and I made it through unscathed sans regular partaking in drink, coffee, etc....and still managed to have a good time!

I dunno, just a thought.On Umbra on beer and wine posted 9 months, 1 week ago 15 Responses