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Souma Yergon, Sou Nou Yergon, We are shakin' the tree
Souma Yergon, Sou Nou Yergon, We are shakin' the tree
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It's Your Day...Woman's Day...It's Your Day...A Woman's Day
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Souma Yergon, Sou Nou Yergon, We are shakin' the tree
Souma Yergon, Sou Nou Yergon, We are shakin' the tree
-- peter gabriel
Sarah Silverman is a comic genius because people like her. She gorgeous, witty and boinks Jimmy "Purple Veined Dick Jokes" Kimmel. She is also Jewish and connected. Therefore, she is unassailable. Perfect media cover for the packaging of the obnoxious.
Like Madonna before her, Sarah Silverman could take a steaming dump on stage, perhaps even into the mouth of Jerry Seinfeld, and everyone would, "oo" and "ahhh" her for her avante gardiness and artistic jouie de vivre.
I like Madonna. Naked. Open. Humble. On stage making fun of everyone's sacred cows but her own she looks arrogant and presumptuous. Anyone would. The lot of us are being made fun of while we throw our money at her for the priviledge of being offended right to our face. It's capitalistic S & M...no, maybe it's just capitalism. A ponsi scheme. It's just in your face to remind you what a sucker you are for putting that dollar in those ten envelopes and hoping that, some day, your ship will come in. What a stooge you are for coming here to watch me flash my titties, dance around and show off my legs. Denouement? The ultimate deconstruction of post-modernist society...because it's not worth having around, anyway -- have a sausage and a napkin.
Sarah's a bit different because she seems willing to put even her own sacred cows on the chopping block. That's alot easier to take. No less offensive than Madonna, Sarah offers up toilet humor for the MENSA set. Maybe even the Prometheus folks.
Connection? All women. It's their day. As a man, don't you dare pay any homage to their rise or we will hate you for stating the obvious. Leave them alone! Don't go there!
It's like a white guy jumping on a bus on Crenshaw in LA, or South Street in Philly, and yelling, "you're all niggers!" It's deemed, "unfunny," because you're OBVIOUSLY just trying to steal THEIR thunder. It's okay if they call themselves, "niggahs," but if a white guy calls them as they call themselves, that's verbotten.
So when Eric Schaeffer jokes about doing to women, physically, what women have been doing to men for the past several thousand years, mentally and emotionally, that's verbotten, too.
Where's the truth in any of this?
We're all equals, even though we're not the same. We really didn't make ourselves, no matter what the Discovery Channel says, and we were created equal by the entity that did make us. That has come to mean, and perhaps has always meant, that any attempt to subjegate one human over, or under, another will be met with failure. Abject, humiliating failure. It violates a natural law inculcated into our DNA from the beginning. Over any considerable period of time natural law always wins.
Yes, men got tired of women running the show many thousands of years ago, and decided that the world needed to become, "unfun." Women were economically subjegated beneath men and treated as slaves until the advent of democracy in the United States. Not right away, of course, but very soon after the ink dried the come-uppance began.
The dominant power culture fears feminization. They should. Their best offering was three, and soon to be four, failed fascist dictatorships. Fascism is doomed to fail because it requires that the community be divided against itself for all time. Logically perfect, but holistically flawed as it is in the nature of human beings to build communities and live together.
I don't fear feminization, I fear losing my identity as a masculine male to a troupe of angry women who will do to men precisely what men did to them many thousands of years ago. The energy is there to swing way past middle ground here.
Deserve's got nothing to do with this. Men in power deserve, in the common judicial sense, to be strung up by their nuts. But when we go to this place, the war doesn't end and everybody loses. Look at these so-called, "men," being paraded on television as serious public servants! These aren't men, these are, at best, chimpanzees with "nukular" weapons. At worst these are men crippled, mentally and emotionally, by the neglect and abuse of their mothers. Probably both. These twits lie, repeatedly, for the sake of the money they believe they need to get women to sleep with them...and women do, for the very reason I've already mentioned! Astonishing!
What makes the world go 'round with people still on it isn't justice...it's Mercy.
That was the point, 2,000 years ago, that Jesus tried to make, but was misunderstood. Horribly. Never underestimate the power of stupidity to rule the world with an iron fist and a 2,000 year old lie. A fraud. A fabrication. The envy of all the world in its boldness and longevity. Subjegating women one movement at a time with a complete lack of compassion or mercy.
Mercy works. Justice needs mercy to stay operable.