Lattice of Coincidence: Theme of the Trip

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Theme of the Trip

The last Daily Show before I went abroad had this wonderful part where they interview a few people from West Virginia to find out why they voted for Hillary and not for Obama. Now, of course they cherry picked the absolute worst ones, but the absolute worst ones were scary in the absolute worst way. One lady "doesn't like the Hussein thing. I've had enough of Hussein." That quote was our theme. Started making us think of silly ideas, like needing to be qualified to vote or something. There probably should be qualifications to be interviewed on camera as well, because those 3 women were, ugh, honest?

4 comments:

Smiff said...: "The most recent Newsweek poll found that 11% of the public still thinks Obama is a Muslim. An NYT/CBS poll put the number at 7%. The Pew Forum found 10%."

However, this is not so bad when considering:

22 percent believe President Bush knew about the 9/11 attacks in advance. (I'm one of these.-ed.)
30 percent believe Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. (Dick Cheney still one of these.)
23 percent believe they’ve been in the presence of a ghost.
18 percent believe the sun revolves around the Earth.
7 percent are medically brain-dead.; May 28, 2008 at 12:40 PM
k-mad said...: We are fatally stupid.; May 28, 2008 at 2:43 PM
Corms said...: Saddam did have wmd, we know we have the reciepts. Of course he did get rid of them 10 years before we invaded.; May 28, 2008 at 2:47 PM
k-mad said...: That is one funny-ass video.; May 28, 2008 at 9:30 PM

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A lotta people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a buncha unconnected incidences and things. They don't realize that there's this like lattice of coincidence that lays on top of everything. I'll give ya an example, show ya what I mean. Suppose you're thinking about a plate of shrimp. Suddenly somebody will say like, "plate" -- or "shrimp" -- or "plate of shrimp" -- out of the blue, no explanation. No point looking for one either. It's all part of a cosmic unconsciousness.

"You know the way everybody's into weirdness right now? Books in all the supermarkets about Bermuda Triangles, UFOs, how the Mayans invented television, that kind of thing? Well the way I see it it's exactly the same. There ain't no difference between a flying saucer and a time machine.... People get so hung up on specifics, they miss out on seeing the whole thing. Take South America for example. In South America, thousands of people go missing every year. Nobody knows where they go. They just like disappear. But if you think about it for a minute, you realize something: there had to be a time when there was no people right? Well, where did all these people come from? Hmm? I'll tell you where: the future. Where did all these people disappear to: hmmm? the past. How did they get there? Flying saucers, which are really... yeah, you got it! Time machines!"

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Theme of the Trip

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