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Forget the swine flu --- that’s a lightweight compared with the one I'm worried about, which is dragging American civilization with it down the muddy gopher hole of irrelevance and ruin. Of course I’m referring to the creeping tacit conspiracy which binds all of us to pretend that it is genuine for us to act like Hollywood actors who are paid to act like a producer’s idea of how everyday people would act if we were always ready with the appropriate cutting observation, or the perfect ironic retort, or the desire to ceaselessly serve up straight lines to the ones who are always ready with the appropriate cutting observation or the perfect ironic retort, while we simultaneously pretend that we have never seen Hollywood actors say these very words on TV night after night for the past 40 years.
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Seth MacFarlane has been fighting this epidemic for years by relentlessly poking fun at it on Family Guy
ReplyDeleteBrian (the talking dog, I presume): MacFarlane has been making fun of it, true, but I'm afraid that's not the same thing as fighting it. It's like trying to fight alcoholism by making fun of drunks while you pour them another round.
ReplyDeleteDeat StuporMundi...You did the opposite of what you do...you made a big sentence out of little ones...oh no...was that an ironic retort?!! No No...just an observation...dot dot dot
ReplyDeleteAnon: no, that wasn't an ironic retort; it was a clever observation, of sorts. Since there are no TV programs or movies that role-model the behavior of simple country editors, or foulmouthed bloggers, or readers like you, this exchange has not to my knowledge been infected by the subject pandemic. Thanks for asking!
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