Hip-Pumping Chants Of "Un-Un" Would Work Better

So it will never be said The Crack Emcee doesn't give credit when credit is due, let me be the first to say - when comparing his treatment of women to others like him - North Korean cult leader Kim Jong Un is light years ahead of the rest. He just got married, so he's not forcing, or tricking anybody into having sex with him. I've never heard a claim that he "heals" people to death (though there was a nasty little rumor going around that his dad made the sun come up) and, rather than having these women kill their kids - somehow - he says, "Go out, smile and sing 'Our Dear Leader' so I'll let you wear mini skirts!" Whattaguy!?!

 Shit, I don't think The Source Family band even had women in it, and - Beach Boys or no Beach Boys - I don't have to tell anybody who the star was whenever "Charlie" picked up the guitar.

No, when it comes to women, Kim Jong Un is Da Man! Sure, most of his people are eating grass, but (as we all know) feminism is the most important economic downturn development of the last century and, so, will supersede all else into the next - for the kids.

Who are these powerhouse women who are out-earning their spouses? 

Pew found that 65% are white, that they tended to be older, and that they were at least as well-educated as their mates. 

Unfortunately, the fastest growing group of primary-breadwinner moms are undereducated women whose median family income in 2011 was only $17,400.

Again - somehow the career of Ann Althouse, existing on the stale fart of feminism (and her second "husband") reveals all.

 

Back on track, the narcissistic North Korean Pop star, Psy, must've really spooked the North for Kim to do this. His new band is called Moranbong, a name that's definitely missing an "o" where that "a" is (Whatever his other qualities, Kim is not the hawt in-touch producer,..) And, since I don't really have any other criteria for how to judge Cult Leader Pop - not to mention Korean Cult Leader Pop - usually relying on the tried-and-true method of sniffing out a cult leader's involvement ("Is he/she a cult leader? Right ON!") I can only judge them after asking myself:

If I was a cult leader, would I find Moranbong so attractive I couldn't torture them - somehow - if they missed a note while performing my latest compositional confection? Naaaaah, they're great: 

 They'd love me even more for it,...

When Bad Isn't Bad Enough (That's Bad,...) Part I

This is Psy, a self-described South Korean "loser" who said: 

"My goal in this music video was to look uncool until the end. I achieved it."

I agree - the music's awful, too.

But what's important, here, is how popular it's become. It's a really shitty song, performed by an uncharismatic artist, in that Euro disco style that's become fashionable with tasteless, brain-dead, wife beater shirt-wearing morons the world over. And that's what I want to talk about:

How, in a cultural wasteland, everything gets turned upside-down - until shit gets turned to gold - and that's when the ignorant are "happy."

You remember this, don't you? It's Beck doing "Loser," another song that became popular despite the fact that - if he had ever shown his face in a rapping contest - he would've been kicked to the curb faster than you can say the title.

No, no, no - there was none of Eminem's "8 Mile" suffering (facing physical danger while honing his skills to a knife point just to be good enough to compete) for Mr. Scientology. Beck just spit nonsense into a microphone - with absolutely no regard for meter - and then (probably) made a phone call to David Miscavage who (probably) beat their cult's followers, until they (probably) worked the phones relentlessly enough to get this classic example of lameness on MTV, and the rest is history.

As a cult critic, I see this phenomena playing out all the time, in pretty much every sphere of life. It no longer matters if anything is good or bad, true or false, harmful or benign, but only whether the impression of popularity can be brought to bear, so those too-easily influenced by the herd mentality will gradually (and gladly) move in it's direction. It appears, to those cowardly folks, being part of a group is more important than anything else in life,…including life (or any understanding of it) itself.

Reality (like - heh - Surf Music) takes a beating when we're trapped in this milieu: 

To his millions of readers, Glenn Reynolds recently declared Twilight star Robert Pattinson was a "LOSER," after Reynolds saw signs the actor was suffering under the weight of his public betrayal by his then-girlfriend and co-star, Kristen Stewart - despite the fact Stewart was publicly apologizing for hurting Pattinson so badly.

Not an altogether unforeseen reaction, considering Reynolds supports the likes of Tracy Quan - a vapid woman who seems to get off on something she calls "Break-Up Porn" - and who considers it "brave" to cheat on your loved one, unloading NewAge playlists for narcissistic cruelty like:

Saying you’re sorry often creates the temptation to drown in your own guilt,…If you fear this apologetic abyss more than you fear breaking up, it’s possible you’re a coward. It’s also possible you have good intuition,… 

                                                         Love-of-destruction translation: 

Forget whatever vileness you did to an innocent, including one you claimed to love and paraded before the world as such. In that - and anything else - you can have it YOUR WAY! 

Compare the attitudes of Reynolds and Quan with the compassion of The Daily Show's Jon Stewart (below) when it comes to treatment of Pattinson, the victim in this cinema-derived romantic drama:

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
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And why not? In our current upside-down version of reality, which is just political correctness run amok, neither Glenn Reynolds (spoon-feeding millions of followers his blinkered, and destructive, outlook) or Tracy Quan (ditto - "intuition"?) are going to call anyone on such an act as the personal destruction of another.

  

Unless, of course, the attacker(s) is/are outside of whatever accepted group they're in. 

 

Which brings me to the presidential race,…to be cont'd.