What the actual fuck...first the OK hand sign, then the term Jogger as the new N-word, now Hawaiian shirts? Is the media just making this shit up?
Yes, they are. It is the awful and interminable habit of the left to take a narrow peek through the shades at the scary world, but with painfully squinted eyes to avoid too much sunlight. With whatever startling information they managed to pick up, the process of painting huge swaths of strangers with the same tired brush then begins. An incredible amount of thought will go into this efficient bucketing of humanity so that the shelf of knowledge does not become unnecessarily burdened. After all, a NYT or InStyle article is allowed only so many words and even fewer points of view.
While this lazy and unimaginative effort examines words, culinary arts, sartorial tastes, and more, my favorite topic is symbology.
I discovered Jack London in 7th grade and read all of his works. While studying literary symbolism in high school I found examples of symbolism that some author clearly intended. But there were many more examples discussed in class that I thought were total bullshit. People found symbolism in
everything. When I didn't agree I was told that I am just missing it. So I went on a pissed-off rampage and wrote my final paper on The Great Gatsby. The amount of symbology I found was almost equal in volume to the book itself. I got an A.
Several years later I read the story of a very old Jack London being talked into attending a PhD dissertation at Yale that centered on his work. He agreed to sit in the audience, anonymously. Mr. London was taken aback by all the symbolic attribution. Mr. London's comment afterwards was that all he was doing was writing some children's books. That's it.
And this gem...
Elvin Jones was John Coltrane's drummer and conspicuously used an 18" diameter bass drum, and sometimes a 16". The most common sizes are between 20" and 24" depending on a lot of things. A noted jazz historian (I think at Columbia or NYU, but he was in NYC) wrote a bit about why Elvin used a smallish bass drum, without ever asking Elvin. This published work gave a very academic explanation of how Elvin had adopted a minimalist philosophy that had to do with race and oppression and the geometry of his drums was his way of messaging all this. Elvin did not respond until years later during an interview... he said that he took taxi cabs to all of his gigs and a larger bass drum would not fit in a cab. Fuckin' A.
Not only did Elvin live in and around NYC but he is a revered figure. If they are going to get literary and musical giants dead-ass wrong, how much effort will the MMM put into engaging the ants dotting fly-over country?
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