Making Sketti
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 5:22 am
I'm an Anglo-phile, I was born and raised in Australia and I feel a strong affinity for the entire Anglo-sphere (i.e. all of the former colonies extensions and outgrowiths of Britain, namely Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada and the UK). So I post this with a heavy heart. If I didn't know any better I would think that the following is a comedy sketch, a piece of satire, but unfortunately, it isn't. I suppose it is the total and utter lack of irony in this that disturbs me the most. This appears to be the benchmark for "white trash", the extrema, but sadly it is not hypothetical. It would seem that in this instance satire would be superfluous.
Just to be clear, this isn't about poverty (I had an impoverished upbringing), it's about character, values, self-insight and behaviour. It is entirely possible to be poor but to also be dignified and have some knowledge (especially nowadays with the WWW and the ubiquity of legal and illegal ebooks).
I've discussed the movie Idiocracy with MBI and IIRC we both thought it premonitory for the Anglo-Sphere, exaggerated for comedic effect but containing a kernel of truth. This video seems to be evidence that we are indeed inching closer to that Idiocracy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KswWfq2drCM#!
My understanding is the show from which the video is taken is a hit in the USA and the family is paid c. US$20,000 per episode. I'm curious to know who the audience for this is. Is it an example of the train-wreck phenomenon or is the audience other people like those depicted in the video or some of both?
I just watched that clip again before posting. Fuck me!
PS:- Just to be clear that this has nothing to do with poverty but rather is a perverse facet of modernity. My heritage is European peasantry. My grand-parents were poor but they survived by subsistence farming supplemented with hunting and fishing (and they lived into their high 80's and 90's). If they are eating road kill deer then clearly hunting is an option. They live in a house so gardening is also an option. But these people are lazy, stupid degenerates that are beneath peasantry. If these turd people took a lesson from the pioneers of Australia and the USA and actually hunted, fished and gardened they would not only eat better they would also not be morbidly obese.
Just to be clear, this isn't about poverty (I had an impoverished upbringing), it's about character, values, self-insight and behaviour. It is entirely possible to be poor but to also be dignified and have some knowledge (especially nowadays with the WWW and the ubiquity of legal and illegal ebooks).
I've discussed the movie Idiocracy with MBI and IIRC we both thought it premonitory for the Anglo-Sphere, exaggerated for comedic effect but containing a kernel of truth. This video seems to be evidence that we are indeed inching closer to that Idiocracy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KswWfq2drCM#!
My understanding is the show from which the video is taken is a hit in the USA and the family is paid c. US$20,000 per episode. I'm curious to know who the audience for this is. Is it an example of the train-wreck phenomenon or is the audience other people like those depicted in the video or some of both?
I just watched that clip again before posting. Fuck me!
PS:- Just to be clear that this has nothing to do with poverty but rather is a perverse facet of modernity. My heritage is European peasantry. My grand-parents were poor but they survived by subsistence farming supplemented with hunting and fishing (and they lived into their high 80's and 90's). If they are eating road kill deer then clearly hunting is an option. They live in a house so gardening is also an option. But these people are lazy, stupid degenerates that are beneath peasantry. If these turd people took a lesson from the pioneers of Australia and the USA and actually hunted, fished and gardened they would not only eat better they would also not be morbidly obese.