Friday, March 29, 2019

"Talking nonstop, not listening to each other"

Al Sharpton describing his experience on a helicopter flight with Don King and Donald Trump OR what will occur during the the April 19th debate between Jordan "Lobsterman" Peterson and Slavoj Zizek? The answer is both. Also, yes there's going to be a debate between Peterson (who can be accurately described as the "stupid man's smart person") and Zizek (who said he'd vote for Trump despite the fact that he, Zizek, is a self-described Marxist). Doesn't it sound awesome already?

The debate is titled "Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism". The debate is taking place in Toronto and tickets are basically impossible to find, StubHub has them for over $100 a pop apparently. Honestly, even if they were $500 the ticket would be worth it. The spectacle of two windbags sucking all the air out of the room while uttering nonsense like this: "Meaning is when everything there is comes together in an ecstatic dance of single purpose" (Peterson). Or even better this: "I hate writing. I so intensely hate writing — I cannot tell you how much" (Zizkek). Zizek hates writing so much in fact that he's written 26 books, in English, for just one publisher. Scratch the $500, make it a $1000! Watching these two "philosophers" contradict themselves before finishing their sentence is going to be awesome.

Picking sides is pointless because both of them are such absurd characters. Attempting to list all of their negative traits and ridiculousness would take, approximately, forever. These two aren't interested in "debating" happiness, or capitalism, Marxism, socialism, or any other philosophy for that matter, they're interested in spouting as many big words in as many unnecessarily complex sentences as possible before they have to take their next breath. It's a cash grab, ego boost BS-fest that could only exist in these especially preposterous times. But...

...it's going to be awesome. It's going to be such an obscene spectacle that, like a car fire on the Turnpike causing rubbernecking delays, it'll be impossible to ignore. $100 for a ticket? Done. $200? Done. Watch the debate once it eventually gets uploaded to YouTube? Oh yes! Why? Because it's not just theater it's absurdity itself, live and on-stage! If Al Sharpton thought King and Trump "talking nonstop, not listening to each other" was the "longest ride" he was ever on wait until he gets a load of these two bozos who's speech can definitely be defined as "bigly". As the great philosopher Terrell Owens once said



**All views in this post are the author's own and do NOT represent the views of Mercer County Community College**

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