Why do I want to be your president? Because goddamn it, I've earned it. Hell, I was an admiral's son, I didn't have to go to goddamn Vietnam, get shot down and deal with all those goddamn sadistic gook prison guards. No, I went because my prick of a father and his asshole of a father were goddamn admirals, for Christ's sake, and I had no choice but to pay off the poker bet I made with them and join the goddamn Navy. And after five years of eating goddamn rats and getting poked up the ass with hot bamboo sticks, then I gotta return to the states to a limping gimp of a wife who got herself fucked up in a car accident and got all fat on me? The cunt ended up with an ass on her the width of a Volkswagen, and after all I'd been through at the Hanoi Hilton, I was expected to come home and fuck that fat cunt? Hell, no! Then I met Cindy, who was hotter'n a two dollar pistol and her dad owned a beer factory. Why did I dump my fat ass first wife and get with Cindy? Bec...
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But somehow we have lost the ability to recognize objective truth. And the courage to speak it!
If the West is to survive we will do so through our rationality.
If we cannot call fat and ugly fat and ugly. If opposites are true we regress to the circular logic of the barbarians at the gate.
Exactly.
It's been a foregone conclusion in advertising that the best way to get someone to use your product is to make them feel inadequate, less valuable, without it, so they'll buy it (you have wrinkles and are therefore ugly; this product gets rid of wrinkles; if you buy it you won't be ugly). Dove has had the courage to try a different tactic (still motivated by sales, of course, but they ARE run by a corporation) -- allow people to feel ok about themselves. Tell people that they don't need to change, and allow that reputation to sell their products.
I don't think it's "Western values" for women who don't fit a narrow stereotype to feel bad about themselves. I don't think there's anything "valuable" about an idea like that. If it's a "Western value," I think it's one worth screwing with.