Any good current horror movies or books/comic? It seems horror has been infected with wokeness. I saw an article about Jordan Peele doing Candyman. Sad thing is he could probably write a good story but he is obsessed with race. The fawning articles about him and Ava Duvernay are absurd
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That's not Henson, actually, that's the puppets from a British show called Spitting Image.
Reagan did so have to endure what Trump did; his age, the jokes about him being an actor (see: Back to the Future), especially about being the opposite lead to a chimpanzee (the Bonzo movies, I think there were only two of them. Hell, Francis the Talking Mule had more than that.) Implications that he was senile (as is shown in the video), that he was a cowboy who'd be more than happy to send nukes up Brezhnev's ass, that he was prone to confusing movies with real life, AND accusations of being too friendly with the religious right and being quoted as saying he hoped we'd be the generation to see Armageddon ....
My grade 7 teacher apologized on behalf of his generation the day after the election and we're Canadian. Sound like the "pozzed" shit that just happened? And this was a guy who had his own paddle, and made everyone he used it on sign it.
Slapstick? Well, it's humourous when it's not you, and if the person isn't really hurt. Yeah, it can be funny to see someone fall on their butt, as long as all that happens is a sore-ish butt. It's a simple form of humour that can be understood without language, so you have prank shows like Just Kidding (from the Netherlands) and _Just for Laughs: Gags (from Montreal), not to mention Mr Bean. Hell, even other species seem to find jump-scares and slapstick amusing, when they do it to you. The Three Stooges were something of their own time, because movie effects and tricks were kind of new, and their slapstick utilized all of it.
Hm, I didn't think anyone else was putting effort into puppets back then. I'll see if I can find some of that Spitting Image show. I'll also look for those other shows you mentioned, as I get little exposure to foreign comedy.
Would you say the Reagan criticisms and mockeries were warranted? That'd be my next guess to differentiate between him and Trump.
This is an interesting point to me. I recently was introduced to the idea that humans are distinguishable from animals in our ability to have complex and intentional reactions to fear. An animal is practically limited to adrenal responses (fight, flight, freeze), but a human can break away from the responses a bit more cerebrally to engage in an informed strategy. You could then say that jump-scares are a bestial fear (and also that there are more ways to make humans feel fear than animals). Perhaps there's a similar explanation for slapstick and humor?
Well, the humour of Spitting Image would be really aged, since it's political humour in and of itself (and specifically British politics, at that). It does seem to be around, though. As for puppets in the 70s and 80s, puppets were mostly confined to kids' shows, Hot Fudge (feat, Arte Johnson) and Kookla, Fran and Ollie, as well as the Saturday morning Krofft crap. The Muppet Show brought puppet shows back to being respectable for adults to watch. The early-20th century music and themes brought in the very old in and of itself.
Did Reagan deserve the rap he got at the time? Well, considering most of the Reagan-fear was over being nuked, and ... we're still here ... then, I guess not. BUT in an echo of today, they had us kids/teenagers pretty much convinced we wouldn't live to see 1990, because Reagan and Breshznev (oh, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Two Tribes.) A lot of cold war stuff was blazed at us before Gorbachev came along and things seemed to .. .calm down (and we started getting crap like Enemy Mine and all kinds of "Russians are just like us" stuff in the media.) And one of the tenser times came when Leonid died and was replaced by two or three geezery old hard-liners, but none of them lived very long. But yeah, we had to watch If you Love This Planet in school, and do a report on The Day After, of all things. Does any of this nonsense echo? Only it's cold war/nukes, not "muh slavery" or whatever shit this is supposed to be about this time.
I don't think there are "limitations" at all with non-humans beyond the limitation of not being able to query them directly about things. I have had to deal with humans were who intelligent (ie, not mentally damaged or really seriously lacking in IQ) who had no language/fucked up language/didn't speak my only language. I can make dumb assumptions about what I see, too, and remember, people who do things to other species in labs are fucking psychopaths, adn Descartes was excusing psychopaths who wanted him to defend nailing dogs to tables in the middle of the street while cutting them open, alive, so they could show how "smart" they were. And the same dumb assumptions have always been made about those who look different, or can't speak proper. Humans in my observations do not react any more "intelligently" in an emergency situations than anything else does, and in fact, sometimes when they DO start to think, they do the exact wrong thing. So put your human conceit aside before asking me shit like this. They're different, but they're not retards. And dogs are more like children, than Downies, and they're not lacking shit any more than humans who have no mind's eye and no internal dialogue ....... and who can't think, so it's pretty arrogant to hold on to old assumptions when we know not all HUMANS have verbal thoughts. Impulse control? A well-trained dog has that, unlike the retards that used to attack kids on our way to school .... and they would get excused when we tried to report them.
Basically, it's just funny as shit to see someone jump out of their skin when you leap out of the bushes at them. And playing, pranks and gametime is always a form of life practice, for predator and prey alike.
Yeah, it occurred to me while trying Spitting Image that I may as well go back and give the Muppet Show another chance. Satire isn't a great starting point for me to learn about british politics. But I enjoyed the puppets just for the craftsmanship. The aging wasn't all that bad - it's sort of insightful to another era and it's always interesting to see comedy from other cultures.
Your description sounds unfortunate enough. It's interesting to hear about such experiences, but I think I'd be foolish to feel any ease about modern affairs in response.
I think you've made some assumptions about me and my point. I was trying to address a psychological process with some notes of evolutionary theory. If you don't care to engage that kind of topic, that's fine, but I wanted to try to clear up that misunderstanding first.
Supposedly it's only social animals that engage in these, but I never really hear about the flipside for how animals outside that group engage in practice.
Didn't mean to sound so aggresssive, apologies.
Well, social animals are the ones that are studied the most, and solitary beasts like bears and raccoons just don't act "normally" in a lab, I would imagine. But litters of baby cats will play, and cats play all the time (I would imagine even the solitary big ones mess around like our housecats sometimes do). And only what happens in a lab under "controlled conditions" during a formal test counts according to the eggheads, at least traditionally (with wildlife cams, "spontaneous behaviour" is being dismissed less and less as "anecdotal"/one-off oddness. Because, see, it was all too easy to throw off "intelligent" behaviour as aberration or human imagination. (Now imagine raising human babies in a lab, and formally teaching them only one word at a time, and any utterance they make outside of tests doesn't count. They're all normal, but would come out looking like utter retards, I bet. This is what the ASL apes had to put up with.)
Anyway, baby bears play, everything plays. And sociality seems to be a trend in and of itself, look at how European mama bears are keeping their offspring around longer, and how utterly different the urban raccoon is from the rural breed.
As for the Reagan-era thing, well, remember that this whole "politically correct" movement seemed to start under his watch (round about 1984, actually, with comedians coming out of nowhere complaining about how "they" want the names of manhole covers and things changed. I have no idea who "they" were, and it almost seems like the jokes themselves triggered calls to get rid of the -ess suffix for certain jobs (stewardess, waitress). And now here we are. So under Trump we had the same kind of hand-wringing "he's gonna enslave us" crying, coupled with all this tranny and other nonsense bullshit ... I don't see any of this going anywhere good. Or rather, this time around I'm wondering if it isn't all smoke and mirrors, a magician's distraction from something actually important.