On the Josephson Institute’s Pillars of Character, one of the values comprising the fourth pillar, Fairness, is proportionality. Proportionality is essential to perspective, and understanding te need to maintain a broad perspective is essential to fairness, a core ethical value.
When I first started watching that video meme above, my immediate reaction was, “Oh, please. This is ridiculous. Then I saw the pay-off, and laughed out loud. I would have laughed just as hardily if the two men had been reversed.
Being unable to appreciate good-natured, puckish satire when it is aimed at your favorite politician, party, elected official, organization is a sign of a closed mind and an absence of proportionality and perspective. That video makes both candidates look silly, and that’s just fine.
If you can’t see the humor, I feel sorry for you. And I fear you. You have lost all perspective, and that leads to fanaticism.
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I’ve been thinking about getting two life size figures of both candidates for my front lawn and dressing Trump as Captain America and Biden as a Banana Republic dictator in full military dress. Would that count as parody.
It’s stupid, sure, but fun stupid. Didn’t laugh, but I can see the humor in it. There’s quite a few videos using computer generated voices to place the recent presidents in various situations, such as playing video games or debating Vocaloid songs. They’re usually amusing, almost always clean fun for the sake of fun, fun that most Americans need in their lives.
For what it’s worth, I got a smile out of it. And yes, it is fun and it makes both men look ridiculous in different and slapstick ways.
Nobody could mistake this for an attack unless their sense of humor had been utterly vaporized by political insanity. Alas, I anticipate that is far, far too common for the continued health of our republic.
My wife and I were at a Middle East market yesterday. The delightful cashier was terribly charming, probably late teens or early 20s. We were discussing the relative merits of a chocolate treat I was going to purchase but hadn’t tried (she described it as a Kit Kat but with hazelnuts – she wasn’t wrong).
As I have said/written before, for some reason people tell me the strangest things, which makes my long-suffering wife crazy.
Then, as she was scanning the anise seeds, she asked what I thought of Trump’s conviction and if I was still going to vote for him ( assuming that I, a jovial white fellow was a Trumpista). She thought it guaranteed his reelection. I agreed and asked her if she was going to vote. Her response: “Nope. I am sitting this one out. They are both imbeciles.” I couldn’t disagree.
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