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 · 25 Apr 2019

  

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              "A Misanthropic Monster Speaks" 
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                            IT 
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  Watched T.V., lately? 
  IT has.  IT has been watching some pretty interesting stuff.  Talk 
shows, game shows, "soaps."  Interesting shows, if you like to explore 
the human mind, as IT does. 
  Somewhere, for some reason, there is a burning contraversy over flesh. 
How much do we have, and how much can we show.  Talk shows seem to like 
this topic.  IT would suppose that's because such contraversy gives 
them a chance to show scantily clad females run around their monitors. 
  Strange, IT remembers talk about something called decency.  About 
talk of how scandalous it was for a woman to show someone her ankles. 
And, when IT remembers such talk, IT can sympathize with those who find 
it so horrendous. 
  But IT also remembers classes about things like freedom of expression, 
speech, religion.  Isn't it a shame that our "founding fathers" never 
put in an amendment about dress?  About the rights we have pertaining to 
our bodies? 

  Wasn't there something somewhere about liberty?  IT forgets.  Perhaps 
IT should bring that up to someone, a new amendment saying we have the 
right to use our bodies.  That would certainly end a lot of contraversy, 
wouldn't it: abortion, thongs, drugs, homosexuality. 
  Wait a minute!  What is IT thinking?  If our founding fathers didn't 
say anything about it THEN, obviously we don't have the right to do so NOW. 
No wonder IT is such a monster... 

  But this is all far from the topic IT wished to write about (or is 
it?). 

  It is too clich‚d to say that the only reason talk shows address 
such issues as socially-acceptable apparel is to show off women in 
bikinis.  IT would prefer to think more... sociologically.  Sure, 
the talk shows show it.  Showing it is their job, if we want to watch it. 

  And that leads IT to an interesting question.  Freud (god rest his 
theories), believed that there is a strong conflict between what people 
think and what people say: The Id-Superego clash.  In this theory, he 
supposes that a man spending his life denouncing nude sculptures as trash 
will put himself on a commitee to review pornography for possible banning; 
thereby satisfying both the good-samaritan aspects of what he says, and 
yet still let him get hold of "nudie magazines" to satisfy what he needs. 
  Society disapproves of nudity and near-nudity.  They'll watch talk show 
after talk show about it, just to condemn these people they've never 
listened to as trash. 

  Is that so different from the man who reviews pornography for banning? 
Are WE so much better than him?  IT truly wonders... 

  This is the end of IT's article.  This loathesome reptilian creature 
is too base to offer you any insight into a possible solution.  IT won't 
give you any easy, three-step answer.  IT won't even tell you if this is 
a real problem IT is giving you.  There are many problems in the world 
today, and IT really doesn't see any ONE of them being solved.  IT can't 
really foresee anyone showing enough chutzpah to do anything that might, 
god forbid, help the world.  Help the WHOLE world. 

  Anger and hatred are integral parts of humanity, aren't they?  Humans 
find it somehow COMFORTING to dislike others.  A young child once asked 
IT why there were different colors for people.  Knowing the kid was a 
religious little brat, IT told him, "Because God loves everybody.  And 
since most people want to hate someone, God thought he might do something 
to make finding excuses for hate easier." 

  Perhaps now you understand why IT considers itself such a monster. 

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