hungryghoast replied to your post:There’s something about the little white lies of…
i was just talking about this ad w/ Paul which inspired me wondering: “how much nicer Improv Everywhere would be if they didn’t fucking record everything. if they recorded nothing.”My brain just broke.
No but really folks, that ad is really nice and all, except that it’s an ad. “Luckily” thanks to being a fairly educated and kinda smart-in-certain-ways individual I can do the mental jiu-jitsu necessary to divorce my feelings (and oh the feelings) from some shitty beer company. But imagine someone (or some entitity) did this just to fucking do it, not to record it, not to promote themselves or a product… just to make those guys feel awesome as all hell and to have some fun and who the fuck cares about what else. What if they didn’t even bother recording it. What if we could do nice things without having to depend on someone making some scratch off of it…
It reminds me in a way of that absolutely disgusting shit out of Rick Santorum’s mouth the other day (link provided so you know specifically which horrific thing out of that turd machine’s gaw I’m referring to). This kid can’t have a life-saving drug because it costs $1million/per effin’ year without insurance. Insanity. After saying some sort of weird bullshit about $900 iPads or whatever, Santorum tries to build an argument for markets whilst accidentally constructing one of the better arguments I’ve seen against them. He says, “Fact is, we need companies to have incentives to make drugs. If they don’t have incentives, they won’t make those drugs.” As in, the ONLY incentive there is is money. The only one. Saving your life, any of your lives, is not an incentive. At all. In that case, fuck that system. Right?
Maybe this shit is as pie-in-the-sky as my views on our stupid wars, but whatever, fuck it, “You either believe in markets or you don’t” the man says, And I choose not to believe.
posted : Friday, February 3rd, 2012
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