Posted by alexandra_k on May 1, 2015, at 22:56:33
In reply to Re: not doing so well, posted by alexandra_k on May 1, 2015, at 22:41:52
has anyone noticed the role reversal?
big bang theory started out... *smart* in a traditional sense. it was really hilarious. the writers... has some genuine kind of insight into academia / what aspects of academia are like. the jokes were funny.
somewhere along the way... it got hijacked. into a regular / dumb sitcom. with stereotypic, cardboard, boring, psychologically implausible characters. doing the dumb regular things that dumb regular people do...
community started out... hilarious. again, a special kind of insight into aspects of technical / community college are like. everyone had a story of how they got to there... what kinds of f*ck ups life had thrown their way... worries about things like 'why won't you walk to the next class with me' and stuff about teachers teachign crap they knew nothing about hoping the class would be popular and so on... the jokes were funny, again.
i was interested because of the whole aspergers thing. i mean... forget the label... the characters... the differences in presentation due to the differences in environment...
but did anyone notice that community got *smart* in a 'big bang theory tradititional smart' sense. they started playing dungeons and dragons. they started developing fantasy role playing games (aka troy the dumb jock turned out to be into fantasy games -??) that episode about the social media thing... that was social commentary GENIUS.
anyway...
i wonder if that is the future... academics will hide in community college sorts of environments because that is where industry will leave them alone.
that seems to be it. industry. making money. distributing money me-wards. selling things that don't belong to you... that's a good way to make money. manipulating people into desiring something that is expensive to dispose of... that is *genius*.
disquiet.
something...
free trade... aka: gimmie gimmie. oil got 'liberated' from iran as 'free trade sanctions were lifted' (with the help of a few bombs). mmm hmmm.. i do wonder sometimes whether 'we give you free trade' is another way of saying 'we make you give to us for free and we give you the sh*t that's too expensive for us to dispose of in return'. like how we get the cars that nobody else wants and that are hard to dispose of. all the sh*t...
appparently oil people want live sheep from us. they say it is to set up breeding stocks for them, but that doesn't make much sense to me. they could do in vitro fertilisation for that. just come on holiday and freaking get some. i think it is more about fresh meat. that's kinda freaky, huh.
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