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Eureka!! I'm a snob! The difference isn't I'm not a self-deluded snob! That's how you do this, grasshopper. You either push your chips in, or you step away from the table; in between is armchair hypocrisy. Your failure is in self-delusion. You won't own what you are.Dude, Everything your post is saying, applies equally to people like you who are pretending this show is something deep and great and totally original.
Pseudo-intellectual douche baggery? That's the people claiming this show is so deep. Is it snobby to point out the snobbery of others? Maybe. Doesn't make the other people any less snobby.
Keep in mind, same show that has people freaking out over a made up Mcnugget sauce. So fucking deep.
It's funny to me because I'm watching the world slowly wake up to this fact. "Agree to disagree", the watered down plebeian axiom of post-modernism is horseshit for the weak-minded. That was never true. Everyone thinks their opinion is the right opinion, and there is always a central argument that is favored.
The right to have an opinion doesn't entail validity of that opinion. There are objective truths which can be reached, and where there isn't, or where there is, it doesn't matter...it's war. Art is war. It's a fucking war of ideas, man. It's not expression. It's the simplest and most ancient argument: the one over what is true.
Why do you think all those great, white, male authors are being cast off? Does it feel like a friendly "agree to disagree" change that is taking place in curriculum and on syllabi around the country? Of course not. The notion of cultural relativism was actually a strategy to displace and subjugate one writing culture with another.
Harold Bloom has been calling this out his entire life. It's a war between cultures. It's a war between generations with each generation inventing itself anew in contrast to the generation(s) that preceded it. Postmodernists are the unctuous used car salesmen who want us to evaluate good and evil on a relative scale between cultures in the present day; yet they don't mind objectively judging those individuals who belonged to the "corrupt" institutions of history, or afford them any meaningful refuge.
The truth is Christians think they are right, Muslims think they are right, Atheists think they are right, and everybody can't be correct all at once. What can't be proven is irrelevant to what is asserted. As Colbert once observed: everyone thinks he is the one who gets the "big picture". So one shouldn't pretend that he's someone who is upset that somebody else's vision of the "big picture" is different than his own. You have your idea. They have theirs. Your opinion is also one of the show, but one defined by an emotional reaction to something that isn't in the show. When confronted about this you pretend that you aren't arguing your "big picture" at all. That's when snobbery becomes irritating. That's leading a charge into battle by waving a white flag; ruthless intellects won't show you mercy.
You don't think there is much to the show. That's your opinion. You're wrong. Don't couch your inability to articulately critique the show in one of disgust with vanity. You yourself are vain. We all are.
So don't be a weak-minded postmodernist. Own it.