Tuesday, August 10, 2021
Constants and Variables 166, Hazel edition
Woke fuckheads have always been around. Ascetic utopian reformers who need to PURIFY their own bodies and PURIFY the world of all heresies and heretics and People We Don't Like.
That's the constant.
The variable is how the rest of society responds to these demons. Today's Cancel shit is the worst possible response, mechanically granting their every insane wish.
Here's a good example of a SANE response from 1944. In this episode of 'It Pays to be Ignorant', Shirley Booth is the special guest. Later, of course, Booth became famous on TV as Hazel. In '44 she was typecast as a sassy Joisey Goil.
She announces that she has invaded the program on behalf of All American Womanhood, To Protest The Unfair And Inhumane Treatment Of Regular Panelist Lulu McConnell.
Booth: "The things you say to, and about, Miss McConnell, are a slight to American Womanhood."
Host: Well, Miss Booth, let me ask you, have you ever met Miss McConnell?
Booth: No, but nobody could be as fat and homely and dumb as you say Miss McConnell is.
Host: I see. Well, that's Miss McConnell sitting there beside you.
Booth: Huh? Oh..... So it is..... Perhaps we were a little hasty.
The point is simple. Utopian fantasies and utopian indignation are harder to sustain when you're faced with plain reality.
Giving utopians a dose of plain old reality still works pretty well. 
Labels: Constants and Variables
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