Anti-home-sickness
So I'm not really prone to home sickness, but I do find the occasional cultural artifact from back home that reminds me of why I got the hell out of dodge. And you get to see one of them today!
So my friend Matt and I were talking about the Boondocks when he linked me this music video:
We both thought it pretty funny and blatantly satirical when I made the mistake of following the related videos link to this CNN story about it which you can see here and here.
Aaaaaarggggghhhh. The reporter is offensively ignorant of the very definition of satire, despite reading the definition during the segment. The most intelligent thing said in that entire 15 minutes of bowel splatteringly offensive displays of ignorance was the musician when he said, "Satire doesn't make sense when taken out of context. You aren't meant to juxtapose it to public service announcements and Sesame Street. It is satirizing hip hop culture, and you are meant to juxtapose it to hip hop music videos."
This is like people reading A Modest Proposal and accusing Jonathan Swift of cannibalism because he advocates eating our children.
Celebrations of ignorance like this news report are why intelligent people expatriate and become alcoholics. Now that my faith in my home country has been momentarily destroyed, and I am considering just never returning; I am going to go get a stiff drink and probably a hookah and read some Howard Zinn to bring the intelligence quotient for my day back up.
Peace.
So my friend Matt and I were talking about the Boondocks when he linked me this music video:
Click to viewWe both thought it pretty funny and blatantly satirical when I made the mistake of following the related videos link to this CNN story about it which you can see here and here.
Aaaaaarggggghhhh. The reporter is offensively ignorant of the very definition of satire, despite reading the definition during the segment. The most intelligent thing said in that entire 15 minutes of bowel splatteringly offensive displays of ignorance was the musician when he said, "Satire doesn't make sense when taken out of context. You aren't meant to juxtapose it to public service announcements and Sesame Street. It is satirizing hip hop culture, and you are meant to juxtapose it to hip hop music videos."
This is like people reading A Modest Proposal and accusing Jonathan Swift of cannibalism because he advocates eating our children.
Celebrations of ignorance like this news report are why intelligent people expatriate and become alcoholics. Now that my faith in my home country has been momentarily destroyed, and I am considering just never returning; I am going to go get a stiff drink and probably a hookah and read some Howard Zinn to bring the intelligence quotient for my day back up.
Peace.