Life in Seinfeld Central Casting
Whataya think, I've never seen a pandemic before?
I live in a retirement community in Delray Beach FL, a place I call Seinfeld Central Casting — where you can’t throw a brick and not hit a retired Jew from Long Island.
My friends back north still wonder how it was possible for me to trade the hustle and bustle of NYC for the pickleball and weathered shuffleboard courts of Palm Beach County. “Because this,” I tell them, “is the last refuge of Jewish American culture,” the end-of-days terminus for American Jews. This is the real reason why I left New York:
The above (plus my family legacy) explains why I aspire to life among the old Jews in South Florida. “Whataya think, I’ve never seen a pandemic before? Believe me, I’ve seen hundreds of pandemics. Thousands! Aaaahhh!”
I refer you now to an essay I wrote some years ago: The Weaponization of Humor by Corporate Elites (what happened when the Jews left the neighborhood). It explains the other half of my attraction to South Florida…
https://stranger-than-fiction.bib.bz/the-lip-enhancer
A Chuck Palahniuk chapter puffy-lipping the point.
“Somewhere in the mail, in the backs of trucks or the bellies of airplanes, various other suction systems are still headed my way. Tens of thousands are headed for other people. Me, these people, we believe. Something will save us. Deliver us. Make us happy. And, sure, you could say this kind of special effect is okay for an actor. An actor is playing a role. Well, I would say, who isn't?
So this wasn't really about Brad.
It's about everybody.”
But can’t blame the entertainmanipulation weapon, right? Weapons don’t kill people, people do.
“Cassius: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, (((not even Brad Pitt, lips & all)))
But in ourselves, that we are underlings."
Cassius, a nobleman, is speaking with his friend, Brutus, and trying to persuade him that, in the best interests of the public, Julius Caesar must be stopped from becoming monarch of Rome. Brutus is aware of Caesar's intentions, and is torn between his love of his friend Caesar and his duty to the republic. Cassius continues by reminding Brutus that Caesar is just a man, not a god, and that they are equal men to Caesar. They were all born equally free, and so why would they suddenly have to bow to another man? On another level this phrase has been interpreted to mean that fate is not what drives men to their decisions and actions, but rather the human condition.”
Or as the actor’s character put it, “You can’t cheat an honest man.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHgv4McMJUk
Diogenes lamp bulb, Phoebus cartel incandescent bulb, Dutch tulip bulb … Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia/Eastasia.
Two’s company & three’s ‘the company.’ The power of threevery:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocudepyO90Y
Been on my mind & maybe that’s the undiscoverable why-stimulus for you past-blasting your weaponized humor musings:
“This one we called the entertainment industry.”
The Big E/asy does it best … say the pragmatist bears haunting the easier to hunt garbage cans & dumpsters … & the bulls, too, in Wall Street & similar CAFO front offices round the globymerase chain action/reaction formation nations.
Or, when does Prag Maga•tic (make animosity great again … with a nervous tic) martial artistry become a guy named Peter Paul poaching from Peter to pay Paul?
To the question/able watchtower ramparts:
Is the near equal synonym for “entertainment” “manipulation”?
“Are you not entertained?!” Sounds, & seems often, like “entrained.”
Here comes Ian Anderson’s JT Locomotive Breath/alitosis.
🎶 Old Charlie stole the handle • And the train, it won't stop going • No way to slow down …
Old Charlie “stole” control. “Take my life … please.” ~ Henny Youngman
That dumpster-bread in mouths & the circumspect-less circus act/ivation of dopaminergic urge satiation does not seem kosher.
But it does seem to have the hamartia mart cornered.
And ever-enlarging-consolidating E does seem to have compassed that geometry long before the waspy Edison gang & the Lower East Side Jewish gang went to war over entertainment industrialization …
(& a very pathologically dirty privatize-the-grift-&-socialize-the-dumping-into-the-commons-cost “business” it is indeed … but so was incandescent light bulb-buggery - see “Phoebus cartel”)
… the staged world was a stage, mostly, well before Shakespeare’s observation - not his invention - wasn’t it?
Humanipulation. Homo satrapians. Central nervous system casting for & by mullet. Sounds like Jussie Smollett is just a coincidence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFFswMnMEEk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnXgKr3fanw
To use/be the suspension (of disbelief) bridge without “buying it” easy, or being hard dragooned-collateralized into “buying it,” either … or not to so use/be:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT2ZtVafzhc
Verrazzano-Narrows:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KwqfykknI
Black beKnighted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmInkxbvlCs
When, how, does manipulation alchemize into something better-sounding?
And when does Ikea become fine furnishings?
Serious theories relativist to what?
Sirius Dog Star radio waves point to the canis psych break point:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-Y2cuV6KlM
And domestic-ation abuse arrests wolf development at puppy stages to beget man’s best friend & his own worst enemy.
Playing catch with me & you & a dog named 22 ensues. Sirius probably beams this Lobo from time to time, but still much more often than someone reads Heller's novel, or even watches the flick version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTbBvPoxUkk
Control. Con•trolls. Illusion illness. It’s a congenital feature, not a bug. “Take my life … please.”