Democracy Lives
My wife seized control of the TV remote control and tuned into the Oscars. Then the friendly folks at MSN put an article about the emcee's jokes about last year's violence between The Fresh Prince and Chris Rock, which included this poll:
NEWS POLL
Do you think there should or should not be jokes made about the 2022 incident where Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars?
- There should be
- There should not be
- I'm not sure
- Other / No opinion
This is what passes for democracy in post-rational America. What topics are out of bounds for public communication? The idea of free speech is now conditional -- George Carlin's seven words have been joined by a host of un-woke expressions that are routinely censored by content providers -- my favorite example is from the great movie version of M*A*S*H as the ringer athelete who enables the climactic big victory at football for th0se lovable rascal MDs has a nick name based on his college track and field role as a javelin thrower: Spear Chucker. That monicker is now bleeped when the movie plays on Basic Cable.
Civics Class democracy is as dead as disco, but pop democracy is booming as we are all encouraged to join in the censorship effort.
Is this a great culture or what?
Comments
Yeah, it is sad.
And yet, I had to watch for the early part of it so that I could witness Buckaroo Banzai's mother getting her Oscar.
Beyond that, the rest of it was a complete waste of time... It won't be long until all humor is legislated out of existence. It has been a very fast trip down that very slippery slope, and I hope that someone will bring it up this election cycle.
Where's Sam Kinison when you need him?
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row
Real comedy doesn't just make people laugh and think, but makes them laugh and change.
Sam Kinison
But Boris Badenov
and Natasha Fatale are acceptable characters still.
Go figure.
I miss the Smothers Brothers too.
Thanks for the post.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
The experiment in Inverse-totalitarianism has finally failed...
...so they are reverting to the traditional kind.
I am dead-serious when I say that the APA ought to formally recognize humorlessness as a top-tier pathology right up there with suicidal depression, clinical psychopathy, and pedophilia.
The fact that it and other personality-disorders are being forcibly imposed on us should be considered a direct, personal act of assault against us all. They know what they're doing.
Time to start bombing psyops facilities.
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
would that be aqueous or vitreous ?
asking for a friend.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Neither, since you ask
I believe this would be considered a dearth of sanguine, and an excess of melancholic.
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!