tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post8904910745716733028..comments2024-03-28T08:25:03.174-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: Doofus Of The Day #1,064Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-17464323356626271332020-08-10T14:15:28.402-05:002020-08-10T14:15:28.402-05:00Dribble that 'somebody' paid for... sighDribble that 'somebody' paid for... sighOld NFOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16404197287935017147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-76814622499897288352020-08-10T13:25:08.496-05:002020-08-10T13:25:08.496-05:00Everything, EVERYTHING has to be either co-opted o...Everything, EVERYTHING has to be either co-opted or destroyed. That's what the left does.catslavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05325295785481053434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-12701162830102421042020-08-10T13:21:12.207-05:002020-08-10T13:21:12.207-05:00I remember reading an account of Green Berets in V...I remember reading an account of Green Berets in Vietnam when the Army sent out a psychologist to evaluate different units so they could perhaps improve screening of SF candidates. After the first guy went through all the tests (including inkblot) and interview, he passed word to the next guys waiting that the inkblots were bats. Always bats. It spread in minutes to everyone and even other units, and so everyone made up the wildest (and often perverse) explanations of how each inkblot was a bat or bats performing ... you name it. When the psychologist made his report, apparently a very strong sense of humor was supposed to have been one of the characteristics of someone who might be a good candidate for SF. I tend to believe that.Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13296988746956477216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-18400523700000727672020-08-10T12:15:27.517-05:002020-08-10T12:15:27.517-05:00I have a simpler explanation - Occam's Razor a...I have a simpler explanation - Occam's Razor and all that. <br /><br />There's a joke in which a psychologist is doing an inkblot test with a patient and the guy sees every single one of them as sexual. After a half dozen the psychologist tells the patient, "well I think we can conclude you have a sexual fetish, maybe several, and we need to help you with that." To which the patient replies, "Me? You're the one showing me the dirty pictures!" <br /><br />In this case "the Academic" is the one who sees everything as sexual, every image, every idea, and since she has been that way all her life, she simply thinks that's the only way anybody ever perceives the world. <br /><br />SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-10546361805736751162020-08-10T11:46:54.122-05:002020-08-10T11:46:54.122-05:00Well, that's what happens when you take the st...Well, that's what happens when you take the strong moral finish out of fairy tales.<br /><br />Jack falls and dies. (Because he didn't listen to his parents, the village elders, and he tried to steal from those above him (What? You thought the story was about real giants? Well, meat fed people tend to be quite taller than grain fed people, so, yes, upper crust nobility (the giants) do tend to be bigger and taller...)<br /><br />Hansel and Gretel get cooked and eaten. (Because that's what happens to disobedient children who are also gluttons and thus nice and fat and plump...)<br /><br />And my personal favorite, the darned mermaid gets tossed aside by the handsome prince because she's not of the right social strata, so now her people spurn her as a social climber and she pines away alone because she's peeved off everyone for getting trumped up ideas about climbing out of the niche she was born into. Moral being - Be happy and content where you are, peasant! (No, really, seriously, THAT's the actual story of 'The Little Mermaid.') (That Hans Christian Anderson was one dark dude.)<br /><br />Real fairy tales are dark as all heck. Cute, sweet and innocent and full of blood and guts galore with a strong moral message of "And that's why you don't do X, Y and Z, because you'll die." <br /><br />Only when the stories got cleaned up did the real ambiguities start appearing.<br /><br />Now, for real "Whoa, duuude, I'm so stoned..." reading go look at Frank L. Baum's books. A world where no child is born, nobody ages or dies, there's no reference to any bodily function besides eating (which is always something sweat or special, no porridge or pea soup there) and everyone is dressed, even the scarecrow, in nice clothes. Dude had some issues. Or not. He stated he was writing books for children that didn't have any real moral values in them. He succeeded for the most part.<br /><br />Well, to finish, trying to analyze ancient text (including fairy tales) using a modern eye is like watching early cinema (except for "Birth of a Nation") with a modern eye. Or watching Shakespeare. Just don't. Take it in the context it was written in.Beanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15293778848879361153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-42543750257015508652020-08-10T11:46:51.468-05:002020-08-10T11:46:51.468-05:00They want to imagine people in the past were as de...They want to imagine people in the past were as degenerate as they are now (which they have done to society as well). <br /><br />Just last week I was talking to someone I have known a long time on the phone. A nice liberal leftist. She said she had just watched a movie from the 1960s, and was appalled at the short dress the young girls were wearing in it. "If I had a daughter I would never let her wear such a short dress!" <br /><br />It seemed she really wanted to believe people were more pervy back then. I am quite sure the opposite but I did not challenge her. I said as tactfully as I could, "well, maybe they weren't as conscious of sex".<br /><br />The left are in denial (their favorite word) about the entire flow of history for the last 60 years.Tobiashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12428058860108044758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-40244379233715010072020-08-10T11:35:16.662-05:002020-08-10T11:35:16.662-05:00Bruno Bettelheim. Among his many transgressions in... Bruno Bettelheim. Among his many transgressions in the name of science, he proclaimed autism was caused by "cold mothers". The pain that caused women with special needs children was widespread and terrible. Well Seasoned Foolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16670165728759453075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-81417591698876005802020-08-10T11:08:49.445-05:002020-08-10T11:08:49.445-05:00In high school one teacher, in particular, was fam...In high school one teacher, in particular, was famous for having every story - no matter what - be symbolic of sex.<br /><br />Just recently, talking with a fellow classmate from those long-ago years, I learned that he was famous in another way: the pursuit of teenage girls.<br /><br />OH.NITZAKHONhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04110716447757507226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-82933252801824269352020-08-10T10:36:10.313-05:002020-08-10T10:36:10.313-05:00That really never occurred to me.
Never again if I...That really never occurred to me.<br />Never again if I have my way. 😉LindaGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12203719919661519350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-82079828859506970892020-08-10T09:35:30.725-05:002020-08-10T09:35:30.725-05:00Dad was a professor, and he had a book called The ...Dad was a professor, and he had a book called The Pooh Perplex, a satirical Literary Critique of Winnie The Pooh:<br /><br />https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Pooh_Perplex.html?id=MmsTjkrN3_wC<br /><br />It had the Marxist analysis, the Freudian analysis, and various other sorts of fashionable academic nonsense. And so the Good Professor here was satired perhaps before he was born.Borepatchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05029434172945099693noreply@blogger.com