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of course this will be bad, but i feel the need to comment specifically on why, pre-emptively.

although it reads like the 'to be fair, you have to have a very high IQ' rick and morty post, its easy to misunderstand king of the hill.

its not a sitcom, or a comedy.

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theres a joke online that "KOTH is a slice of life anime". this intuits something true about the show. the inspiration for king of the hill was 'do the right thing' by spike lee, specifically the way in which that film depicts daily life in a specific neighborhood and place:
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its filed as a comedy because it happens to be funny, but its not "a comedy" like the simpsons.

this misunderstanding about its nature extended even to the network that aired it. early in its launch FOX tied it into nascar cross promotions. i believe this is an image from one: Image
on the surface, this makes sense. this is like the simpsons, but about texas. so people that watch nascar will like it.

but, they really didnt. because thats not what it is. as stupid as it sounds, its actually just an artistic depiction of a place and time: Image
likewise, its not really a sitcom either.

if you watch the early seasons, lots of things happen that never reset or get resolved. for example, buckley dies (and returns as an angel) (swedenborg moment btw). after that, he's just dead. theres a lot of things like that. Image
this was so antithetical to the nature of a sitcom and network TV programming that the network asked them to stop doing stuff like this, because it got too confusing when they re-aired the episodes out of order.

so, it became a sitcom. but thats also not what it is, internally. Image
part of why the show is interesting is because it could really only be made at that time. i was working with a guy once, and he asked me about shows i like, so i mentioned KOTH, and he said

i just don't get it. is it supposed to be funny?

thats the point. yes, but incidentally Image
sidenote: i drew this many years ago and then was mentioned by name on a two hour long king of the hill podcast (check my credentials) Image
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not making any strictly political assertions about the shows conclusions but may drop some relevant lore if it comes up

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Apr 21
tech interfaces used to be much more actively customizable. you could just poke in and make everything green, pink, anything. this is much less of a thing today. this probably stems from a kind of allergy to sincerity - someone might see your interface and see how much you cared
jordan peterson really got his whole thing locked into a single meme: "clean up your room". whats lesser known is what the second step was: make it beautiful. the idea was that by trying to make something look nice, you would then be forced to be open to harsh personal criticism
regardless of what you think about him or his work, this is true. if you hang a painting up in your room, people are going to come over, and they might say, "...thats the painting you chose?" - and you have nowhere to go. you can only say, well, yeah. you're total unguarded.
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Apr 20
'medical mundi' is a term i started to use, internally, at a time in my life when i was often in and out of hospitals.

the 'medical world' really is 'a world'. it is a realm. it has its own way of being, its own paradigm, and its self-contained.

thats medical mundi.

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you dont really notice when you enter medical mundi. something happens, and you go to the hospital. thats just what you do. you're just there.

but, you notice when you leave. you're back in the parking lot - hours, days, weeks later. like a stone, you hit the earth. you're back Image
i have lots of memories like that. suddenly, you realize you were just in a whole separate universe. thats usually when it all hits you. things dont really hit you in medical mundi. people talk to you, you're doing stuff, but you're kind of just there. its just happening to you. Image
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Apr 15
[esoteric baby semiotics]

it is difficult to imagine something more wholesome than a baby. children are, in a way, the benchmark for what wholesome is. likewise, if you were asked to think of content that was unwholesome one subject that would immediately come to mind is sex

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it seems noteworthy then for those interested in symbolism, cosmology, religion, or sociology (life in general) to observe that these are only oppositional concepts when it comes to practical day to day terrestrial life. on deeper level, they are more than directly related. Image
the way hot and cold are apparent opposites but are in reality extensions of one thing (temperature), our first instinct for most wholesome thing and least wholesome thing are actually part of the same process. the baby is the completion of the sexual act. children come from sex.
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Apr 11
one way to conceptualize mormonism historically is that it re-orients the christian system around the family unit, as we might say that at other times (possibly now, i cant say) it was organized around groups of monastics. this allows them to make statements like this one:
most american christians intuit that there is something essential about the family and marriage - but they lack the theological basis to say its essential. in my opinion they really feel that its “the whole point” and talk this way, but its hard to square in their big picture
catholicism has this nicely squared up (imo, which means nothing). its kind of “the whole point” if youre a layperson, but if you’re a monk or priest obviously there are other reasons and factors for your lifestyle differences. they have a different track built right in.
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Apr 11
one time, years ago, a guys dog brought fleas into my house.

the experience of having fleas goes like this: you see a tiny dot. you poke it, then its gone: the flea jumped when you touched it.

cycle: the visual stimuli, the suspicion, then the confirmation. over and over.

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this happens to you somewhere between one hundred to one thousand times, at random moments, all the time, until you get rid of them (which i did). then, you still think about it after. youre poking random black dots you never would have noticed before, just to check.
interestingly, i never really came back from this. i notice little black dots still, to this day. of course, they’re always just some debris, a speck, something random. but im aware of them. never even really saw them before. i extend my hand, a small poke, just to check.
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Apr 9
one evangelist wrote something like, "out of the fullness of the heart, the mouth speaks".

this is a great principle for cultural analysis: whats really in a heart just comes out of the mouth.

one example: no one really thinks the point of public school is to make you smarter. Image
im around a lot of parents, people with kids: that means people discuss homeschooling a lot. this discussion is also found online now, virtually everywhere

when the topic surfaces, if someone objects, sometimes people will show data about homeschooled kids generally doing well
this data seems to exist. some makes it seem like they do better on standardized tests, or at least just as well. they apparently at least arent crashing and burning, i guess.

whether or not this is accurate doesn't matter here. its about people's reaction to this information.
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