(((The Contradiction Trifecta, Part 3)))
This is the third, and concluding part, at least for the main body of the piece. I may wind up taking a page from Ginsberg, yet again, and eventually add a footnote to this piece, just to tie up any loose ends, but (at least at the time of writing this), I'm not quite there yet.
Throughout human history, every new 'movement' that comes along seems to follow a near-identical and highly predictable arc. Indeed, I've always thought one of the more clever takes on this comes from musician and producer Todd Rundgren, who released a protest song in the late eighties with the title 'Jesse'. On the surface, it was an excoriation of the beliefs and attitudes of several people, including Jesse Helms, Tipper Gore and Pope John Paul II, but there were also broader messages in there as well, such as the lines: "'cause you showed me that things are still the same, everybody's parents turn out lame..."
Some things I refer to include the old Roman expression: Servi somnis ne libertatem. Somniarunt tenens flagellum, which has been translated in modern times as: Slaves dream not of freedom, they dream of holding the whip. A variation of this appeared in the TV show 'The Bridge': Slaves do not dream of freedom. They dream of being masters.
There is also some inspiration from an old Calvin & Hobbes strip, where Calvin is having a bit of dialogue with his father about the notion of so-called ‘Halcyon Days':
"Which exactly are the halcyon days of my youth? Is Saturday one?"
"I believe they're awarded retroactively as you get older."
"You can't identify them until then?"
"Halcyonity is relative."
Another inspiration is the 1988 song: ‘The Living Years’ by the British supergroup ‘Mike & The Mechanics’, which is a pleasant enough song, but whose moralising message has always struck me as rather heavy-handed treacle. Of course, 1988 also gave us Bobby McFerrin’s ‘Don’t Worry - Be Happy!’
Need I say more?
And of course, who can forget Professor Click at the University of Missouri, who, in November 2015, was caught on camera at a student demonstration angrily telling journalists that they needed to leave, and when they did not immediately do so, she started screaming: "I need some muscle over here!!!"
Also mentioned is the event that was known as “The Triggering - Has Political Correctness Gone Too Far?”, which was held at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst on 25 April 2016, and which featured feminist professor Christina Hoff Sommers, radio host and political commentator Steven Crowder, and Breitbart journalist and professional provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos. The proceedings were continually disrupted by a self-described ‘body-positive feminist’ named Cora Segal, who waved her arms in the air, beat her chest, and loudly (and continuously) shrieked: ‘Fuck you!’ and ‘Keep your hate speech off this campus!!!’, every time the guests attempted to speak. Videos of Ms. Segal’s tantrum quickly spread around the internet, and led to her being dubbed ‘Trigglypuff’, after a Pokémon she was said to bear some resemblance to.
There is also a secondary reference to an incident, where British fourth-wave feminist Laurie Penny received a very public dressing-down from historian Dr. David Starkey after she called him a 'racist' and 'xenophobe'; videos of which are still easily found online.
Another influence will be obvious to anyone, who has played the F-Zero series of video games, or Super Smash Bros; specifically the character of Captain Falcon, whose ‘Falcon Punch’ signature move is so ridiculously overpowered and exaggerated that it can clear an entire screen. Eventually ‘Falcon Punch’ became in internet meme, where it is defined as being the one, sure-fire solution to every conceivable problem in life. Car won’t start? FALCON PUNCH!!! Boss annoying you? FALCON PUNCH! (you get the picture). Of course, a Falcon Punch is far more effective if it is screamed out in the same broken English that's found in the video games.
Throughout human history, every new 'movement' that comes along seems to follow a near-identical and highly predictable arc. Indeed, I've always thought one of the more clever takes on this comes from musician and producer Todd Rundgren, who released a protest song in the late eighties with the title 'Jesse'. On the surface, it was an excoriation of the beliefs and attitudes of several people, including Jesse Helms, Tipper Gore and Pope John Paul II, but there were also broader messages in there as well, such as the lines: "'cause you showed me that things are still the same, everybody's parents turn out lame..."
Some things I refer to include the old Roman expression: Servi somnis ne libertatem. Somniarunt tenens flagellum, which has been translated in modern times as: Slaves dream not of freedom, they dream of holding the whip. A variation of this appeared in the TV show 'The Bridge': Slaves do not dream of freedom. They dream of being masters.
There is also some inspiration from an old Calvin & Hobbes strip, where Calvin is having a bit of dialogue with his father about the notion of so-called ‘Halcyon Days':
"Which exactly are the halcyon days of my youth? Is Saturday one?"
"I believe they're awarded retroactively as you get older."
"You can't identify them until then?"
"Halcyonity is relative."
Another inspiration is the 1988 song: ‘The Living Years’ by the British supergroup ‘Mike & The Mechanics’, which is a pleasant enough song, but whose moralising message has always struck me as rather heavy-handed treacle. Of course, 1988 also gave us Bobby McFerrin’s ‘Don’t Worry - Be Happy!’
Need I say more?
And of course, who can forget Professor Click at the University of Missouri, who, in November 2015, was caught on camera at a student demonstration angrily telling journalists that they needed to leave, and when they did not immediately do so, she started screaming: "I need some muscle over here!!!"
Also mentioned is the event that was known as “The Triggering - Has Political Correctness Gone Too Far?”, which was held at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst on 25 April 2016, and which featured feminist professor Christina Hoff Sommers, radio host and political commentator Steven Crowder, and Breitbart journalist and professional provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos. The proceedings were continually disrupted by a self-described ‘body-positive feminist’ named Cora Segal, who waved her arms in the air, beat her chest, and loudly (and continuously) shrieked: ‘Fuck you!’ and ‘Keep your hate speech off this campus!!!’, every time the guests attempted to speak. Videos of Ms. Segal’s tantrum quickly spread around the internet, and led to her being dubbed ‘Trigglypuff’, after a Pokémon she was said to bear some resemblance to.
There is also a secondary reference to an incident, where British fourth-wave feminist Laurie Penny received a very public dressing-down from historian Dr. David Starkey after she called him a 'racist' and 'xenophobe'; videos of which are still easily found online.
Another influence will be obvious to anyone, who has played the F-Zero series of video games, or Super Smash Bros; specifically the character of Captain Falcon, whose ‘Falcon Punch’ signature move is so ridiculously overpowered and exaggerated that it can clear an entire screen. Eventually ‘Falcon Punch’ became in internet meme, where it is defined as being the one, sure-fire solution to every conceivable problem in life. Car won’t start? FALCON PUNCH!!! Boss annoying you? FALCON PUNCH! (you get the picture). Of course, a Falcon Punch is far more effective if it is screamed out in the same broken English that's found in the video games.
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Black hole levels of suck are created when you divide by zero. :P
And you know what's REALLY funny? Just a few short years ago, folks in the fandom thought I was pretty liberal. My viewpoints actually haven't changed all that much since then. It's more like the entire earth tilted and shifted underneath my feet. X.x
And you know what's REALLY funny? Just a few short years ago, folks in the fandom thought I was pretty liberal. My viewpoints actually haven't changed all that much since then. It's more like the entire earth tilted and shifted underneath my feet. X.x
Even better is that Milo is playing them like a fiddle, and they're too fucking stupid to realise it. Milo is the very living embodiment of the old adage: "Give them enough rope, and they'll hang themselves". Every time a riot breaks out, or a Trigglypuff shows up at one of his rallies, he's handing out yet more rope. If the SJWs had so much as one functional brain cell between them, they would realise that the most effective way to shut someone like Milo down is to ignore him.
That's why that online rule has been around for years: Don't feed the trolls. Let them starve to death.
That's why that online rule has been around for years: Don't feed the trolls. Let them starve to death.
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