Cartoon Violence

Militant Muslims appear to wave the mental capacity of a twelve year old. Enough intelligence to assemble and detonate a bomb, but the reasoning power and sense of reality seems void. I'm not saying all followers of islam are idiots. I'm just saying most of the bombers, vocal advocates of violent responses to non violent acts, and the protesters in general truly wear their education on their sleeves.

After the most recent bombing in Pakistan, I must say the rest of the world is starting to get fed up.

If the King were I

I may be an idiot in many ways, but I am also smarter then perhaps the majority of people I meet. Not the kinda smarter that is worth much. Not the 'study-get-a-job' smart. That's real smart. But smart, like, I can see the world for what it is. I can see the motivations that drive billions to do what they do. This is not a rare insight. You probably have it if you are reading this.
Anyway I figured...if I'm fairly smart with almost no influence, then those with incredible super-wealth those neo-elite, secret club type people must be very smart. We know they exist. This isn't the Bill Gates, Oprah celebrity class I'm talking about, but the uber-wealthy folks who must (almost by default), I assume, run everything of obvious importance. Those people...well...those people must be as smart as I am or even way smarter. OK. What if they were way smarter. Would they have deduced many years ago that we need to retard the growth of the population. China did in a very obvious way with the 1 child policy. Not a bad idea. It might be an important idea. Maybe it could save the world? Our "enlightened", modern, progressive culture would never allow such a freedom restricting act. That may be a perfect example of why the world is doomed under the powerful weight of our selfish sense of personal freedom...

...though, as spoken by a true hypocrite, I would not want to sacrifice my freedoms for almost anything...

Anyway.

What if the uber-class has figured that people running amok is a bad thing as far as the future is concerned. What if they promote smoking, fast food, nitrates, war, STD's etc...even if they encourage (perhaps even created) AIDS to discourage sex and procreation and all this was to keep the happy, less aware, dim masses under control.

Is it possible that they are as crazy as I am , only with a buncha power?

The voice of reason

South Park has been fun since it first aired. I remember some of my geekier friends in the mid nineties show me the Christmas episode when it started circulating (Back then the internet was primarily a play-zone for smarter people who wore black and who had a mutual dislike with their peers) on the web. I wasn't very into it after the first few episodes in the late nineties. I thought it was cool and funny, but after the first season I was kinda bored of it.

Then they blew my little mind with the movie. It felt like someone had hacked into my brain and animated it on a screen. It still reigns as my favourite musical of all time. Then I kept saying I like the movie, but I'm not really into the show. This ignorance kept up until 2006ish. I caught a couple episodes. I forget which one snagged me, but I was soon enthralled. Avid in my watching. Now I respect it as it has matured into one of the sole voices of reason in pop culture. They're continuing commitment to not taking sides has rendered them able to see situations without a 'left' or 'right' clout. They tend to find the middle line in any issue. Be it abortion, terrorism, celebrity, apathy, drugs, greed, family, alcoholism...anything. They even made me look at my own values views in The Twin Towers Deusche episode.

Anyway. I just wanted to share my appreciation of, what I believe to be, some of the finest art on TV...

We need to reduce our numbers

We need more war.
More pestilence.
More Famine and death.

We are, as noted in the Matrix amongst others, a virus.
We are the cancer of the world.
The bane.
The Notion that we are divine, doing the creators work is absurd.

We are not only killing ourselves. Our children. Our loved ones, but we are killing everything that we know to be alive in the universe. We might be the only life in the universe. Maybe the only intelligence, and we're flushing it all away. We will never learn as we are today. We will never overcome as long as the enormous amount of power and influence we all share is coupled with the lack of compassion and thought we all seem to carry.

So I say hate thy neighbour! Kill! Lie! Covet thy neighbours wife until he or she kills you! Hate each other! Treat others the way the extinct animals would treat you if they had knowledge and foresight.

Try to love the greater good.

Reason # 987 why I love Japan

MAD TV's 15 minutes seem up

I really liked the last couple seasons of Mad TV. Especially last year. There seemed to be some originality, bravity and just plain funny....I don't know exactly what idiotic decisions were made over last summer, but the first warning sign that things were in the crapper were the first few episodes being "best of" episodes. It seemed desperate, but I thought, ah maybe they just need some time to rewrite some things... and then the 'real' season started...

...I like the acting, but I really miss Nicole Randall Johnson, who I feel was the most talented cast member in years. Ike Berinholtz (spl) definately left a void, and I don't feel the new replacements have successfully replaced them.

Something happened to the vision of the writers, too. It feels closer to the uber-crappy SNL. Infact the whole series feels now like the little brother of SNL. Bad ides that repeat for way too long and a focus on simplistic subjects.

Every episode does draw a few chuckles, but more groans. I also get the sense that the actors know it's crappier, but are professional and will do their jobs as well as one can when there is no more love for their art.

It's too bad, but I guess good things don't last, eh.

Race is Bass

This may sound like a Hitler idea, but imagine if we could execute everyone in the world who hated other people based on their race, religion, sex, sexual preference or language... would there be anyone left? I imagine I'd be left, but I might be wrong.