It's not too easy to express clearly what any nation's or culture's values are, but the way this phrase is being bandied about in the current climate of ass-kissing for votes is nothing short of bewildering.
What the hell does it mean?
For example, when Rom-Ry berate the Obama admin for not upholding American values in the Libyan embassy attacks...what the fuck do they mean? Which American values? Family? Church? Three square a day? How do they relate to Libya? Why would American values have any relevance whatsoever in Libya? What the fuck are they talking about?
I can only surmise that they are talking about the core value of freedom of expression. That's what needs to be defended. Of course for radical Islamists that's the problem. Why should people be allowed to say such things?
They have a point, given their lack of experience of open expression.
But wait...it was a terrorist attack, not a protest.
Ah, now which values do we mean? The value of self-defense? That's not an American value. That's a human value, or even more; an organismal value.
That can't be what they mean.
What do they mean?
I think they mean the value of the US as being the biggest and baddest motherfucker on the planet, the value of being able to tell other soveriegn states what to do, when to do it, and when and where to jump when we ask them to. That's what needs to be defended. That's what American values are.
I think they mean the value of arrogance.
I see no value in that at all.
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Friday, October 5, 2012
The Unshaven Man
Sometimes one has nothing better to do than issue a bit of a rant. Now is as good a time as any to do that.
For quite awhile now I've been peeved to no end at this extraordinarily irritating trend of men who cultivate the unshaven look. We see it a lot in tv shows and Hollywood movies. If I saw a doctor looking like the one in the tv show House walk into my room I'd kick him in the nuts and tell him to get away from me (in spite of the fact that the actor is a reasonable facsimile of a blues musician). Apparently some one out there, perhaps a gaggle of fools in LALA land, believes this to be an attractive, masculine look - a devil-may-care look perhaps, a look of a man who has too many more exciting things to do in his life than worry about his appearance - there simply isn't any time to shave.
Well, then grow a beard, asshole. Make up your mind.
Talk about indecisiveness; a lack of masculinity.
I've had difficulty discerning whether women find this look attractive. At the level of whiskers most of these guys cultivate it's hard to see how it can be good for the muff dive.
Which is of course, the point.
It's a cultivated look, not even remotely related to a devil-may-care stance or approach to life and the world, or any kind of practicality.
It's Hollywood.
It's bullshit.
It's like walking around with a flag flying over your head with the logo:
'I AM A STUPID SHIT'.
Because, as any man who has gone a few days without shaving knows, ants begin to crawl across your face, they crawl down your arms and begin to invade your torso, and elsewhere.
It doesn't feel good.
It begins to feel better if you actually let it grow out into an actual and real beard.
But these assholes truly cultivate this look by using their little electric razors set at 1/4 inch depth to assure the appearance of a four-day beard.
Why would you want to feel bad all the time?
The hypocrisy is clear, but it's still a mystery.
For quite awhile now I've been peeved to no end at this extraordinarily irritating trend of men who cultivate the unshaven look. We see it a lot in tv shows and Hollywood movies. If I saw a doctor looking like the one in the tv show House walk into my room I'd kick him in the nuts and tell him to get away from me (in spite of the fact that the actor is a reasonable facsimile of a blues musician). Apparently some one out there, perhaps a gaggle of fools in LALA land, believes this to be an attractive, masculine look - a devil-may-care look perhaps, a look of a man who has too many more exciting things to do in his life than worry about his appearance - there simply isn't any time to shave.
Well, then grow a beard, asshole. Make up your mind.
Talk about indecisiveness; a lack of masculinity.
I've had difficulty discerning whether women find this look attractive. At the level of whiskers most of these guys cultivate it's hard to see how it can be good for the muff dive.
Which is of course, the point.
It's a cultivated look, not even remotely related to a devil-may-care stance or approach to life and the world, or any kind of practicality.
It's Hollywood.
It's bullshit.
It's like walking around with a flag flying over your head with the logo:
'I AM A STUPID SHIT'.
Because, as any man who has gone a few days without shaving knows, ants begin to crawl across your face, they crawl down your arms and begin to invade your torso, and elsewhere.
It doesn't feel good.
It begins to feel better if you actually let it grow out into an actual and real beard.
But these assholes truly cultivate this look by using their little electric razors set at 1/4 inch depth to assure the appearance of a four-day beard.
Why would you want to feel bad all the time?
The hypocrisy is clear, but it's still a mystery.
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