Beyond Stupid and Evil.
Also an "It Gets Better" for the freaks, weirdos, outsiders and other involuntary conscripts into the Tribe of the Terrorized. You know who you are, and let me tell you kiddo, it gets much, much better.
Thanks again to Frank Chow for the graphic and Heather at Crooks and Liars Video Cafe for their help. And don't forget you can listen to our archives for free with no downloads at Professional Left.
"My mission in life is to point out to the monkeys of the universe that they cannot continue to exist in the state of stupidity."-- Harlan Ellison
5 comments:
"spiritually mingy" sounds like a phrase that should catch on to me!
Star Trek next gen is on BBC and 1 of my local stations, and 'Darmok' was on recently. Truly, a fantastic episode.
Dwelling on its plot, it's one of the best sci-fi stories around. A somewhat superior (technologically) species, in that their ship can blow up ours easily, decides to parley w/ us lowly humans. How, one may ask? Why, of course - reenacting the epic of Gilgamesh, by bonding over the defeat in hand-to-hand combat w/ some Predator-beast! Duh.
The very idea of putting such a potentially species-changing moment up to chance struck me very deeply as a young kid back in the day, when these episodes would run. Dinnertime. Whenever I caught that episode again, I got pissed that that particular species was never revisited - striking that up for the 'win' column, after that bridging of the gulf of alien communication is ain't enough. Where's the tagline?
-DupinTM
Damn straight it's a "war"! And "everybody knows it" don't help much when we are losing it. 11/2 will tells us how bad. Are we that dumb? You betcha! I am hoping for a Truman moment.
Thanks for your version of "It Gets Better." I'm a gay geek who grew up in rural Arkansas, and I had to deal with the same cruelty and nonsense that you did, though I didn't get beaten up nearly as often as driftglass.
Both of you are sexactly on target, and I hope some tormented teens of any sexual orientation heard you. Our lives are so much richer now, and the morons who tormented us are for the most part, living pretty miserably, even the ones who have a little money.
Whoops, I meant "exactly on target," though being sexactly on target sounds like fun, too.
The monkeys of the universe will go on existing nicely in the state of stupidity until the Earth itself becomes uninhabitable due to the gradual warming of the Sun (if nothing else happens to doom life on Earth first), long after Harlan Ellison is dust and his name is forgotten.
And so it goes, as another writer, who is now becoming dust, said.
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