RAGING BULL-SHIT
"If You Can't Dazzle Them With Brilliance, Baffle Them With Bull." WC Fields
RAGE AGAINST THE BULLSHIT
A Searing Speech on the Perils of “Ubiquitous Assimilation”
06/01/2014 by Don Quijones
Last night, La Doña and I had the fortune to stumble across a U.S. movie from this century that was both mature and thought-provoking. Called Detachment, it is an independent film about a young teacher who strives to make a difference in a run-down, inner-city school.
While it may sound like a familiar plotline, this is certainly no Robin Williams/Michelle Pfiffer feel-good movie. Featuring stellar performances from a host of familiar faces, including Adrien Brody in the lead role, Detachment is an intelligent, tender and often hard-hitting tale about how difficult life can be for all of us, whatever our age.
Below is one of the film’s best scenes, in which Brody’s character delivers a stirring classroom speech on the eternal struggle to preserve one’s mind in an environment of “ubiquitous assimilation” — a challenge we all face in this age of total connectivity and perpetual distraction.
Ubiquitous Assimilation
ubiquitous- appearing, or found everywhere
assimilate- take in (information, ideas, or culture) and understand, absorb and integrate (people, ideas, or culture) fully
“Assimilate ubiquitously. Doublethink.
To deliberately believe in lies, while knowing they're false.
Examples of this in everyday life: "oh, I need to be pretty to be happy. I need surgery to be pretty. I need to be thin, famous, fashionable.". Our young men today are being told that women are whores, bitches, things to be screwed, beaten, shit on, and shamed. This is a marketing holocaust. Twenty-fours hours a day for the rest of our lives, the powers that be are hard at work dumbing us to death.
So to defend ourselves, and fight against assimilating this dullness into our thought processes, we must learn to read. To stimulate our own imagination, to cultivate our own consciousness, our own belief systems. We all need skills to defend, to preserve, our own minds.” ― Henry Barthes
