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Black Or White Or Purple Or Noah, What Matters is Your Mother

14 Sunday May 2017

Posted by Joshua Ryan "Jammer" Smith in Biography, Book Review, Feminism, History, Masculinity Studies, Politics, Race, Satire/Humor

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I’m pretty sure my mother is using me for my library card.

Ever since I started working for the Tyler Public Library my eyes have opened to the pettiness of local government, and the pain that can sometimes be public service.  The Tyler Library is a significant one: we have one of the few full time Genealogy/Local History rooms that is open full time in East Texas.  Along with that we serve a wide variety of people who come in looking for books, DVDs, access to computers and the internet, and a regular series of public speaking events in which people come to listen and watch professionals talk on topics ranging from Rose growing to the future of tyler_tx_public_library_img_0495Nuclear Arsenal Diplomacy on the international stage.  The problem with the library, like almost every library I’m sure, is funding.  Because only the city of Tyler’s taxes go to fund us, people who live within the county but not the city have to pay a membership fee.  My reader may be wondering what this has to do with my mother or Trevor Noah’s wonderful autobiography Born a Crime.  I’m sorry, I like to talk, but I’m getting to it.

My mother lives in Smith county but she lives in a small town called Noonday which barely caps 400 people.  She then, like many people in Smith county, complain about the fact that their tax dollars are being taken but they still have to pay to use the library.  In her defense, she understands the money situation since I’ve explained it to her, but often I have to smile and carefully explain to patrons that the county refuses to pay us and therefore we have to charge a fee to stay in the black.  Few people really understand this because of the unspoken maxim that I agree with in principle:  Libraries should be free.*1711_0hi

But my mother likes to read and I like my mother, she’s got good taste in music and pays my cell phone bill, so I decided to arrange a system in which I would check out books that she wants to read and loan them to her.  The system has worked so far, but as I noted from the start I think she’s enjoying this arrangement because every time I see her she’s asking for another book.

This little anecdote though does serve a purpose because as I noted before this essay is my response to Trevor Noah’s autobiography Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood.  I didn’t know about Trevor Noah at all until he got in trouble for an offensive tweet, and to be fair that was really only because he was taking over for Jon Stewart on 29780258The Daily Show and people were looking to disrupt the institution at this supposed moment of weakness.  Stewart left, Noah began, I stopped watching for a while.  It wasn’t that he wasn’t funny, it just that he was new and I’m one of those obnoxious people who has to settle into things slowly.  Still I enjoy The Daily Show and Noah himself has begun to really demonstrate that he’s made The Daily Show into his own and so I’ve become a regular watcher again, and in fact, in the last few months I’ve come to adore Trevor Noah as a comedian, and even more as a writer and Born a Crime is largely responsible.

I checked the book out from the library (my desk is literally right next to the New Books area) and read the first two chapters knowing instantly that my mother would love this book.  I know it sounds ridiculous or absurd to suggest that I have anything in common with a celebrity (especially one who’s seemed to have a far more interesting and eventful life than I have), but reading these first two chapters I realized that Trevor Noah and his mother had a relationship that mirrored the relationship my mother and I have.  A strange closeness that fortunately isn’t Oedipal.

I told her to read just the first two chapters.

I didn’t get the book back for a week.Trevor Noah

Noah’s biography took me completely by surprise because I’ve read the autobiographies of comedians before, and most of them, if I’m being charitable, aren’t worth reading.  It’s not that they aren’t funny, it’s just that most of them are just opportunities to track their individual development and show where they’ve come from.  I know there’s merit and real humanity in such works, but the problem is too often these books are also just a chance to rap and ramble about everything and anything that comes into their heads.  Noah’s book is different however, because his story chronicles not just his awkward puberty and childhood, it also tackles the issues of race, political corruption, domestic violence, crime, and poverty while still managing to be entertaining and well written.  Trevor Noah’s very existence was a crime because, growing up in South Africa during apartheid, being the child of a black woman and a white man, he was a crime against the state.

Noah’s book often explores the sheer absurdity of apartheid in small segments between the chapters of the book.  One passage which is one of my mother’s favorites, discusses the labeling of Chinese South Africans as black.  He explains:White Area

Apartheid, for all it’s power, had fatal flaws baked in, starting with the fact that it never made any sense.  Racism is not logical.  Consider this: Chinese people were classified as black in South Africa.  I don’t mean that they were running around acting black.  They were still Chinese.  But unlike Indians, there weren’t enough Chinese people to warrant devising a whole separate classification.  Apartheid, despite its intricacies and precision, didn’t know what to do with them, so the government said, “Eh, we’ll just call ‘em black.  It’s simpler that way.”

Interestingly, at the same tie, Japanese people were labeled as white.  The reason for this was that the South African government wanted to establish good relations with the Japanese in order to import their fancy cars and electronics.  So Japanese people were given the honorary white status while Chinese people stayed black.  (75).273B9A1C00000578-3023806-image-a-3_1428088867566

I still can’t read this passage without cracking up.  The stupidity is just mind-boggling.  Then again the United States Constitution originally labeled black people as three fifths of a human being so I suppose it’s important to remember that racism is a worldly stupidity rather than just a regional one.

One of the joys of reading Noah’s biography is the fact that, as a comedian, his retelling of one of the most truly despicable institutionalized race segregationist policies never becomes dramatic, hyperbolic, or soul-crushingly depressing.  Instead of levelling on and on about the atrocities of apartheid, Noah tries constantly to present the small absurdities in his life while observing how they would relate to the wider national community.  And in this right, I would argue, Noah succeeds far better in demonstrating the ineffectiveness of apartheid, because while concerted political efforts were what ultimately brought down such an odious system, it’s the power of subverting the institution through laughter that a real victory is achieved.

If you can laugh at something, it’s difficult to take it too seriously.

There so many levels to Noah’s biography in terms of race.  One of the most prominent is also one of the hilarious and tragic scenes in the book.  Noah describes his early infancy when his mother and biological father tried to take Noah outside for activity.

Where most children are proof of their parent’s love I was the proof of their150928133752-trevor-noah-daily-show-granny-mckenzie-pkg-00003302-large-169 criminality.  The only time I could be with my father was indoors.  If we left the house, he’d half to walk across the street from us.  My mom and I used to go to Joubert Park all the time.  It’s the Central Park of Johannesburg—beautiful gardens a zoo, a giant chess-board with human-sized pieces that people would play.  My mother tells me that once, when I was a toddler, my dad tried to go with us, and I ran after him, screaming, “Daddy!  Daddy!  Daddy!”  People started.  He panicked and ran away.  I thought it was a game and kept chasing him.  (27).

This passage is funny upon first reading, but by the second or third time I’m reading it I wonder (while still laughing) the pain of not being able to even be seen in public with your child.

Before I start the maudlin crap though I really do want to acknowledge how well written this biography is.  I’ve observed before that it can be difficult to find truly great biographies.  A.N. Wilson’s Tolstoy is always the first that comes to mind, Che: A 51ty6xJ8PlLRevolutionary Life by Jo Lee Anderson comes next, Jim Henson: A Life by Brian Jay Jones (Also look up his George Lucas), Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens, I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai, and recently I’ve begun Life by Keith Richards.  This list may seem to contradict my statement before about the scarcity of truly great biographies but in fact it only reinforces it.  These books are products of a careful craft (pardon the alliteration) that tries to leave the reader with a real sense of the person under discussion, and rather than try to chronicle every detail of a person’s existence, it instead tries to offer the heart and personality in all its beauty and flaws.

Reading Born a Crime I feel like I know Trevor Noah’s personality, rather than just his facts.

And if I can offer one last sentiment, what is beautiful about the book for me is how much I come to recognize that the pair of us do have one thing in common: we grew up under strong women.  The impression of Born a Crime that lingers for me is how Patricia Noah helped shape Trevor into the man he became.  One quote is enough to see this because I return to it over and over again:xnbaypa

I grew up in a world of violence, but I myself was never violent at all.  Yes, I played pranks and set fires and broke windows, but I never attacked people.  I never hit anyone.  I was never angry.  I just didn’t see myself that way.  My mother had exposed me to the books she never got to read.  She took me to the schools that she never got to go to.  I immersed myself in those worlds and I came back looking at the world a different way.  I saw the futility of violence, the cycle that just repeats itself, the damage that’s inflicted on people that they in turn inflict upon others.

I saw, more than anything, that relationships are not sustained by violence but by love.  Love is a creative act.  When you love someone you create a new world for them.  My mother did that for me, and with the progress I made and the things I learned, I came back and created a new world and a new understanding for her. screen-shot-2015-03-27-at-8-25-19-pm After that she never raised her hand to her children again.  Unfortunately, by the time she stopped Abel had started.  (262).

This passage is beautiful to me because it perfectly summarizes the home I was raised in, or at least the philosophy that governed it.  Both of my parents grew up in homes where physical abuse was not controversial, it was just a common means of discipline.  I was raised by parents who disagreed with that idea, who instead wanted their children to see that violence doesn’t check anything, all it does is inspire more of itself.  Violence becomes a kind of cancer eating at the people who perform it and suffer from it until there’s nothing left.  If anything, this passage seems like the most important in the entire book because ultimately this biography centers on Noah and his mother.

The relationships between mothers and sons can be complicated, because if men profess too much admiration or devotion to them the accusation of Oedipus complex becomes a loud prison sentence.  Anyone who needs much evidence of this simply look to the “Martha” controversy trevor noahs grannyof Batman Vs Superman.  But mothers are important for a young man’s development because she becomes the first relationship.  Mothers, the good ones anyway, teach their sons emotional strength and then eventually how to interact with the world.  They teach them the proper ways to speak and act towards women.  They teach them about the importance of family.  They teach their sons love, and what that word really means against the supposed images and representations of it that crowd the media.  This last lesson is important, the most important, because as Noah’s biography demonstrates that love is what helps develop people into the individuals they are and instills in them their ideals and moral constructions.

I had a wonderful mother who encouraged me to create and love rather than destroy.  That guidance has led me to where I am today.  Likewise, Noah had a loving mother who suffered and endured a pain that would break most people, but through it all endured and taught her son that essential quality.

Born a Crime isn’t just a story about racism, it’s a testament to a mother’s love for her son.  And his success is only further proof that she probably deserves some kind of official “Mom of the Year” award, because you don’t get shot in the head and live through that and not receive any kind of accommodation.  Spoilers.

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*Writer’s Note*

Since writing this essay one of the library staff explained, rather effectively, that nothing in life is “free,” and in fact if you look at the way libraries work since their founding, they are most certainly not free.  Books, internet access, and DVDs don’t magically appear from thin air and so libraries have to receive fuding of some kind, usually from taxes and grant funding.  I’m writing this out because this attitude of “Libraries should be free” is bullshit and it needs to stop being perpetuated.

 

**Writer’s Note**

All quotes from Born a Crime were taken from the Spiegel & Grau First edition hardback copy.

 

***Writer’s Note***

For the record I don’t mind if my mother uses my library card.  Shegave birth me and continues to support me financially, philosophically, emotionally, intellectually, etc., and reads whatever I write here.  She also, from time to time, recommends great books.  So thanks Mom, you rock.  Love you.

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Your Moment of Zen(The Book): What I Owe Jon Stewart

26 Sunday Mar 2017

Posted by Joshua Ryan "Jammer" Smith in Biography, Book Review, Christopher Hitchens, History, Politics, Satire/Humor, television

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I owe John Stewart everything.

Like many people of my generation I looked to Jon Stewart to provide an insight or analysis of a problem that nobody else could offer.  It wasn’t that I didn’t trust the news, it’s just that many of the voices on the news were either relentlessly pedantic, or else the people reporting were trying too hard to be television personalities rather than actually trying to be journalists.  PBS Evening News and BBC News seemed like the only reliable sources, but they only came on once a day and usually at the same time and usually during the evening when christopher-hitchens-apartmentI needed to be doing homework.  Being a night owl that usually afforded me the chance to watch some television in the evenings before bed, but of course, rather than watch Anderson Cooper 360, I switched it over to Comedy Central hoping for a few reruns of South Park or Ugly Americans.  I remember watching the show sporadically at first.  Sometimes every night week after week, and then I’d stop for a month or two and try to focus on learning how to play the guitar.  I was going to be a rock star you see, which, for the record, never panned out.  I could never learn how to do the jump kicks that David 51ty6xJ8PlLLee Roth did which was important for rock you see.  Eventually I settled back in to watching Jon Stewart and one night he hosted an interview with a man I had never met but who I instantly wanted to learn more about.  He spoke with a British accent and was promoting his memoir Hitch-22.  A new world opened to me as I devoured Christopher Hitchens’s writings, and when I finally sat down and read god is not Great, I was never the same.

So like I said, I owe Jon Stewart everything.

That’s why after I had one of my “Coffee with Jammer” sessions with a friend and was walking around Barnes & Noble looking at books (that great temptation) I saw The Daily Show (The Book): An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests and I snatched it up ignoring the paltry sums of money in my pocket.

The Daily Show (The Book) doesn’t follow the pattern of previous Daily Show books such as America or Earth, where there isn’t a central narrative and the larger aesthetic goal is just to provide a series of laughs and visual comedy gags.  The book is exactly what the subtitle suggests, an oral history of how 9781455565382The Daily Show became the institution that it is, how it changed over time, how Jon Stewart helped shape and mold the program into something relevant in the public discourse, and how it jump started the careers of dozens of individuals acting in show business today.  Rather than just have Jon Stewart reciting lists and events however the book is narrated in snippets by everyone who was ever involved with the show or played some crucial role.  This includes the correspondents such as Al Madrigal, John Oliver, Stephen Colbert, Larry Wilmore, Olivia Munn, and Kristin Schaal just to name a few, while also including guests of the program such as Senator John McCain, Anderson Cooper, Ta Nahesi Coates, and Paul Rudd.

Before I even begin this though I can already hear some objections from my reader.  The Daily Show was nothing but Liberal claptrap and Jon Stewart was just a snowflake stooge trying to push an agenda.  How does this book possess any kind of real cultural merit?  It sounds more like a chance for Stewart to squeeze a little more juice out of the fact that he’s a celebrity.  Why should I waste my time or money on this book?1a0904b28b57d3b348485cb1c81b7caa

My contester is a little more political today than they usually are, and I should address the last point first.  You could try checking the book out from your local library, if they don’t have it try an Inter Library Loan.  That way it’s free and if you don’t like it you can simply return it.  Libraries exist for a reason you know.

As for the first points I’m afraid that my contester are themselves plagued by the bias they’re suggesting of Stewart.  The man himself doesn’t try to hide that his political positions tend to push towards the left, but any seasoned fan of Stewart has seen and recognized that he can be just as critical of Democrats.  It’s easy to look at Stewart’s dialogues and criticisms and observe a liberal bias, but digging a little deeper the ultimate goal of the program really seemed to be about discourse.

At one point Dag Vega, a liaison of the Obama Administration, talks about the President’s interview with Stewart:Jon Stewart , Barack Obama

The President sat down for interviews with Diane Sawyer, Brian Williams, and Scott Pelley, and afterward I remember we compared those three interviews with Jon’s interview, and Jon’s was the most policy driven of the four.  The other three were much more focused on the political news of the day.  His interview was tougher than the three network news anchors’.  (331).

This may not be enough for some to understand what I believe is Stewart’s gift of discourse and so an earlier passage, when he’s discussing his second interview with former President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf not long after Osama Bin Laden was killed.  jon-stewart-e1413469635742Stewart received some criticism for hosting the man, but Stewart’s argument speaks volumes about what he wanted the Daily Show to be:

I can’t tell you how many times I was asked, “Why would you have that guy on the show?”  Whether it was Musharraf or O’Reilly.  My feeling is always, “Why would you not take an opportunity to find, within someone’s humanity, some understandings of why they’ve done what they’ve done, or why you want to two-dimensionalize people that have odious opinions, but maybe it’ a little more complicated than that.  (285).

This quote to me stands as the ultimate reason why my reader should bother with this book.  It’s become rather easy to “other” another human being, though perhaps I’m being charitable.  Perhaps it’s always been easy and it only “feels” like things have changed over the course of the last decade.  But that impulse to transform another person into an “other” is dangerously simple because of the world we live in.  Economics and social interaction are dramatically different and now we live in a world where we can create bubbles around ourselves, and when individuals appear who seem to contradict our statements or personal philosophies we can simply cut them out.  Being the kind of person I am I struggle with this system because, unless you’re a Nazi or part of the KKK, I generally try to give everybody the opportunity to explain themselves and I actually really enjoy hard conversations.  Thus, stands the appeal of Stewart for me.ds_15125_03_16x9

Jon Stewart transformed The Daily Show into something new and important because as time progressed I was always far more interested in what he was going to say about an issue, or what joke he would say about a political figure.  And part of the reason for that was 9/11 and the war on terror.

The book essentially begins with the rise of the Bush Administration and Stewart gives a keen insight into that:

When we were first doing jokes about the war, the country was scared and wanted to believe what had happened on September 11 had sobered our politics and our media.  And what it did was it lent a weight and consequence to criticism and dissent.  Dissent was now seen as not just snarky but unpatriotic .  We had never gotten death threats before.  (116).o-JON-STEWART-facebook

Trump being in the White House it’s hard to imagine that such hostility could have actually existed before the election season of 2016.  Thinking back to this I vaguely recall the attitude toward critics of the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, largely because I was around 12 years old and thought that President Bush was a wise and intelligent man.  That changed.  Growing up in East Texas though there was this solid rhetoric that was spun around me that if you were critical of the Bush administration that you weren’t just a terrible person, you hated America.  That attitude was taken by many of my friends, fellow students, teachers, and casual acquaintances and I won’t try to assume like I held a different opinion from the masses.  September 11th was scary, and the thought that this could happen again was terrifying.  But as I grew, and puberty really started to kick in there was a rebellion against such a system, not just because authority said I needed to trust the government, but because I began to distrust the rhetoric.WIN_20170313_12_11_15_Pro

I don’t mind someone loving their country, or being patriotic.  For god’s sake I write these essays in front of a damn American Flag and I won’t shut the fuck up about “Republic!  Republic!”  Obviously I have no problem with patriotism, but blind devotion always leads to tragedy and problems and so in hindsight the atmosphere of the Bush administration is something I have never forgotten (though I would most certainly take it over the current administration).

This reflection though is another reminder of the lasting value of this book.  While reading I suddenly remembered the names and faces of that Presidency, and reading about the staff’s mocking of the government, and the media that reported on it, it was a way of stewart_colbertconnecting to that previous atmosphere, because The Daily Show always managed to capture some of that Zeitgeist.

Stephen Colbert sums it up perfectly in a passage just beneath the previous quote:

There was a demanded uniformity of opinion in what you could write or what you could say about the war.  There was a reasonable and expected honoring and elevation of the sacrifice of the troops, that turned into a shillelagh to hit anybody who dissented.  We were a dumb little show and could still get under the radar at that time.

Steve Badow said it to me best, which is, “I don’t think we’re anti-Bush, I think we’re anti-Bullshit.”  (116).

I recognize that there is nothing so pretentious as someone claiming their work is satire, largely because nobody ever really seems to have a good explanation for what satire actually is.  To be fair I have a master’s degree in English and I still don’t have a great definition.  But I pulled this quote, not just to remind the reader of Jon Stewart’s last speech Bullshit is Everywhere, but to lay out plainly what was so important to me growing up and watching The Daily Show.funny-Jon-Stewart-congress-laws1

Jon Stewart was funny, but watching him I became engaged with the political processes of my country.  The Daily Show parodied the bullshit that was always present in the discourse in a way that no other television broadcast, or written journalism piece, ever could have.  Jon managed to simplify whatever material was going on in the world, which the powers-that-be were always trying to complicate, and because he delivered a show about the torture taking place in Abu Gahraib, or efforts to slash funding to Planned Parenthood, and managed to deliver the explanation with a few well-placed cock jokes I discovered something terribly important: I played as much of a role in democracy as the President.

This was an important discovery because it meant so much more for individual civics.  I suspect the reason many people fail to at least follow politics is because so much of it is delivered either in combative tones or else in language so dry and dull many would prefer to set their genitals on a power sander rather than be forced to listen to it.  I realize ds_16075_01_16x9that I’ve repeated myself several times and I’ll probably repeat myself again, but Jon Stewart and The Daily Show allowed me to stay somewhat informed as to what was happening in my world, and what the powerful were trying to do, and how the media was reporting on it.  The show was silly (there was an episode using a wheel of fortune capped with a dildo for god’s sake) but that silliness and irreverence allowed the audience, allowed me, the chance to laugh at the powerful and there is nothing so great as the ability to shake off power.

Senator John McCain, who was a regular guest before he and Stewart had a fight and near falling-out, provides in my mind the ultimate summation:McCain Puppet

Jon and I had our disagreements.  But look, when we focus on that one bad interview I had with Jon—I was so grateful later when he supported me on the issue of torture.  That’s far more important, frankly, than any real or imagined slight that I might’ve had from him.  I was very grateful for that, because that’s a seminal issue about what America’s all about.  It meant a lot to me, and he wasn’t just talking about me.  Jon was explaining to these young Americans why torture was such an important issue.  That’s what I really appreciated.

He is like Mark Twain or Will Rogers.  He is a modern-day humorist of that genre, of that level.McCain Stewart Puppet

Absolutely, I took the gift bag every time I was on the show.  Absolutely.  It was one of the nicest bribes I ever got.  (293-94).

The Daily Show (The Book) is not solely about Jon Stewart, and I’ve done a rather shit job of explaining the merits of the book, but I’d like to think that my reflections here have provided enough impetus to explain why a book like this matters.  People like Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, Samantha Bee, Larry Wilmore, Trevor Noah, and Seth Meyers owe their popularity either directly because of John Stewart or else because of the model he helped to develop.  News and public discourse has been forever altered because whenever Jon Stewart would discuss a topic he would reconstruct the topic, and those who were responsible for discussing it in public were eventually forced to acknowledge Stewart in some form or fashion.  There are few comedians who ever exert that kind of power and influence, and apart from medieval court jesters, there aren’t any humorists that can demonstrate such an influence upon the public consciousness.

If it hadn’t been for Jon Stewart I never would have read anything by Daily Show ZakariaChristopher Hitchens or Fareed Zakaria.  I would have no idea who Malala Youzafzai was.  I would never know or care who Travor Noah was.  And of course, I probably wouldn’t have been so much of a fan of Neil Degrasse Tyson if he had never come on the show.

The Daily Show(The Book) is most assuredly the first in several books to come that explores the cultural impact of the comedy journalist.  A new generation is entering the discourse with the advantage of having had someone like Jon Stewart lay the foundation for future comedy journalists who will, in their own way, inform the public about what is taking place in their world.  It’s unlikely that anyone will have the same impact as Stewart did, but The Daily Show (The Book) at least offers a glimpse into the time before people had The Daily Show.

Such a book is precious, and also a great opportunity to find some wonderful cock jokes.

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*Writer’s Note*

All passages from The Daily Show(The Book) came from the hardback, first edition Grand Central Publishing copy.

 

**Writer’s Note**

I’ve included a link to a review by the New York Times about The Daily Show (The Book).  If the reader is at all interested simply follow the link below:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/arts/television/review-the-daily-show-the-book-reveals-how-jon-stewart-made-news.html?_r=0

 

***Writer’s Note***

I didn’t get a chance to put this in, but one of my favorite passages from the book was a brief quote by Neil Degrasse Tyson:

When I came on to talk about Space Chronicles, I needed a tennis serve to send back Jon’s way if he got the better if me in an exchange.  But the interview was a lovefest, and I thought, “I’ve got to bring this up anyway.”  I waited until the very end, and I said, “Oh by the way, the earth in your opening credits is spinning backward”  He picked up the book with both hands, slammed it on the desk, and said, “Son of a bitch!” and then it fades to black. 

Oh, yeah, we laughed about it when we went to commercial.  But he never did change the rotation.  I’m told by the Daily Show staff that when Jon takes questions from the audience, every single time someone asks, “When are you going to switch the earth?”  So it haunted him, surely, for the rest of the show.  (288).

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Smell the Bullshit of Your Government, Today!

30 Saturday Jul 2016

Posted by Joshua Ryan "Jammer" Smith in Politics, Satire/Humor, Speech

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A speech like Bullshit is Everywhere does most of the work for you.  The entire idea, ethos, and explanation is contained in a brilliantly composed three-word sentence that both invites and challenges the reader at once.  It can also be a bit pointless explaining the significance of the speech that not only explains its own significance as it moves along, but also is only a few years old.  When approaching the issue of writing reviews and essays about great works however my creative impulse is always to compose essays about what I think people should care about, or at least something that has something interesting to teach them.  There are many essays which, in their own way, attempt to compel diligence and concern for informed Democracy, but the problem many of these have is that they tend to be ungodly pretentious, agonizingly boring, or else they don’t have enough ds_16075_01_16x9swearing.

Bullshit is Everywhere solves that problem by being written and delivered by Jon Stewart.  It also is the last speech he gave on The Daily Show before retiring and handing the show over to Trevor Noah who, despite naysayers on the internet, is not that bad.

I absolutely loved The Daily Show because it managed to perform the old cliché of “entertaining me while I learned.”  Though to be honest I really didn’t care too much about what was actually happening in politics, if I honestly wanted to know I would have read a newspaper, watched some PBS Newshour, and done some internet research.  Like many I came to The Daily Show because John Stewart was the shit.  There were few, no voices actually, like John Stewart because in one segment the man could make a call for a reformation of the rhetoric concerning gun violence in the wake of a tragedy, and in the same segment drop three jokes about vaginas that I would use in casual conversation the next day.  John Stewart was a comedian and he played that angle to his benefit, because what he often lacked in “dignity” he made up for conviction.  It was his ability as an orator, rhetorician, performer, and comedic talents that made whatever topic he was discussing all the more potent.o-JON-STEWART-facebook

If you look at the Donald Trump Presidency announcement he made a line that I can still quote from memory:

Stewart: He’s amazing, America’s Id, is running for President.  Trump’s that voice your head at three in the morning going, “Let’s go take a shit in a mailbox.  Come on who’s gonna know?”

It’s not enough to gush about Stewart’s ability to make people laugh and actually give a shit about politics, nor for the fact that he helped Stephen Colbert become the comedy powerhouse that he became.  For me personally the legacy of John Stewart was always the interviews because I learned about books and writers I never would have had he not invited them onto the show.  For my part the three most import interviews were with David Sedaris, Fareed Zakaria, and finally Christopher Hitchens.  This last writer, as any Daily Show Zakariaseasoned reader of this site knows, is the writer who changed my life completely and created a standard of “writer” and “intellectual” that I always aspire to, and the interview he gave on the show was for his book Hitch-22.  Watching the interview is both illuminating and depressing for before the show was filmed Hitchens had been diagnosed with the throat cancer that would eventually kill him.  Regardless, the interactions of Stewart in those interviews is what sealed the man to me an important rhetorical figure, and his last speech only further demonstrated that.

The very last lines Stewart spoke on camera, before Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band came on to play Born to Run, was a simple line:

Bullshit is everywhere.stewart_rect

He broke for a moment as the audience laughed, and as he remembered something before continuing:

Are the kids still here?  We’ll deal with that later.  Bullshit is everywhere.  There is very little that you will encounter in life that has not been, in some way, infused with bullshit; not all of it bad. The general day-to-day organic free-range bullshit is often necessary, or, at the very least, innocuous: “Oh, what a beautiful baby! I’m sure it’ll grow into that head!” That kind of bullshit, in many ways, provides important social contract fertilizer, which keeps people from making each other cry all day. But then, there’s the more pernicious bullshit; the premediated, institutional bullshit designed to obscure and distract. Designed by whom? The bullshit-ocracy. It comes in three basic flavors:

Once or twice I have been accused of being nice to the point of it being revolting or unbelievable.  Friends who have never lived with me have told me this, and in moments like this I think back to the first part of Bullshit is Everywhere.  It might have been the parents I had, watching Sesame Street non-stop as a kid, channeling the spirit of Jimcf2da79f8f29148df0b78b124283cfda Henson when I was four while watching The Muppet Movie and singing along to Rainbow Connection, attending the Episcopal church semi-regularly until I stopped going altogether, or perhaps it’s the LSD in the water, but I have always lived by the philosophy best expressed by Jane in Breaking Bad: D.B.A.A., Don’t Be An Asshole.  This philosophy works for me, for as long as I have lived I just genuinely wanted to be a good person.

As Stewart pointed out however, being completely nice occasionally involves a little bit of harmless bullshit, and lord knows I’ve spread my share during my lifetime.  I’ve encountered a few people in this life who have inspired animosity or outright revulsion, but because I worked with them, or went to school with them, or because I couldn’t shake them and so I had to listen to them tell me about Pokemon Black and White while stewart_colbertI walked to my truck, I was forced to nod my head, smile, and listen patiently as they explained that British television and culture is superior to American television and culture, or that Pokemon Black and White was better than Red and Blue…which for the record it isn’t.  These little acts of bullshit are, as Stewart points out, necessary in human being’s mundane life, because they preserve people’s peace of mind.

It’s easy then to mistake that low level bullshit concern for the later more pernicious types of bullshit that there becomes a problem.

Stewart continues:

It comes in three basic flavors.  One, making bad things sound like good things.  Organic, all-natural cupcakes.  Because factory-made sugar oatmeal balls doesn’t sell.  Patriot Act.  Because “Are you scared enough to let me look at all your phone records” Act doesn’t sell.  So whenever something’s been titled Freedom Family Fairness Health America, take a good long sniff.  Chances are it’s been manufactured in a facility that may contain traces of bullshit.

The first example makes me laugh, because in the last month I’ve listened to about or around thirty to forty “lectures” from my wife about the bullshit industry that is Organic food.  When I was in High School my teacher assigned us to read Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All American Meal by Eric Schlosser, and like many Americans at the time it scared me off of fast food.  It wasn’t because the way the fast food industry profits off of the cheap labor of immigrants who typically are illegally here and so when they suffer a work-place accident aren’t entitled to any workman’s comp or insurance benefits.  No.  It was because the food was gross, and this paranoia, much like that caused after the publication of The Jungle in 1906, progressives scrambled to develop the organic food industry to keep eaters safe.  The problem with this is that along the way bullshit began to infest this industry.1a0904b28b57d3b348485cb1c81b7caa

While political conservatives tend to be bullies and blowhards, liberals tend to be smug and self-righteous, the best example being Bill Maher.  GMOs, or genetically modified organisms, tend to be the victims of this “righteous” campaign because often GMOs are the licensed product of corporations of Monsanto.  To be fair to these liberals, Monsanto isn’t a pleasant company and has screwed plenty, and I mean plenty, of farmers who simply want to grow their own crops.  GMOs become guilty by association to Monsanto and this becomes a real problem.  Any and all science that proves GMOs are no more harmful, if they ever were, than regular crops tends to be silenced with bullshit and so we wind up with “Organic cupcakes” and I get to listen to my wife, while trying to get a few pages of Infinite Jest in before I have to vacuum, explain this bullshit out.  It’s the little things that make a marriage.

The second brand of bullshit is similar, but slightly more nuanced:bB1jw

Number two.  The second way, Hiding the bad things under mountains of bullshit.  Complexity.  You know, I would love to download Drizzy’s latest Meek Mill diss.  Everyone promised me that that made sense.  But I’m not really interested right now in reading Tolstoy’s iTunes agreement.  So I’ll just click agree, even if it grants Apple prima nocte with my spouse.  Here’s another one: Simply put.  Simply put.  Banks should be able to bet your pension money on red.  Bullshitly put, it’s, hey, this.  Dodd Frank.  Hey, a handful of billionaires can’t buy our elections right?  Of course not.  They can only pour unlimited, anonymous cash into a 501©4, otherwise they’d have to 501©6 it, or funnel it openly through a non-campaign coordinated super pac…(*whisper*)I think they’re asleep now, we can sneak out.

I’ve never even read any part of an iTunes agreement, though since I went completely PC this really hasn’t been too much of an issue so I’ll stick with the Billionaires and money.  Now being raised as part of the Middle class the idea that I could influence elections in any way other than simply voting is a foreign concept…but not that foreign.  Attending a private school, I met one or two politician’s sons, and while most of them were assholes, I recognized rather quickly that knowing the right people would promise many shlubs that they would stay out of trouble.  Looking at elections I, like many Americans, tend to get rather flustered when talk of SuperPacs is discussed, or when some well-meaning economist comes on to explain that Canidate X has performed a violation of Polcy 709(b)9 and…and….

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Excuse me I fell asleep.

It’s easy to watch the last part of this second section as simple hyperbole, but as in the last example the brilliance was in the fact that I recognized painfully that I had simply changed the channel from CSPAN when they began to discuss campaign finance policy.  I intended to sit and watch it, because after all I am a patriot and I do care about the future of my country.  But god, even I can’t stand to listen to bureaucrats discuss form 506(d)3 that was abridged from 509(f)9 which permitted funds to transfer to…to…to…

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Damn it.

It’s easy to laugh at how painfully boring the realities of political finances have become, but that laughter only reveals how uncomfortable many people are.  Admitting ignorance, willful ignorance at that, is embarrassing and often leaves people feeling miserable or foolish.  Stewart’s speech isn’t designed to shame the viewer however, but merely to acknowledge his complicity in it.  Tolstoy wrote a long damn novel about the rules governing how to use and enjoy your ipod, and Dodd Frank played the nation for a chump, and each election season we’re reminded that, to quote Mitt Romney “Corporations are people too.”

I’ll move onto the last part of the speech however which outlines the most cowardly aspect of bullshit:

And finally, finally, it’s the bullshit of infinite possibility.  These Bullshitters cover their unwillingness to act under the guise of unending inquiry.  We can’t do anything because we don’t yet know everything.  We cannot take action on climate change, until everyone in the world agrees gay-marriage vaccines won’t cause our children to marry goats, who are going to come for our guns.  Until then, I say it leads to controversy.

The first question that should really be asked is why Stewart isn’t taking gay-marriage-vaccines more seriously because in the last five minutes at least three of these goats have busted into my office and stolen my guns.  Granted most of them were made in Russia, but it’s the lack of grace that’s the most bothersome.  In all seriousness however this part of the speech is probably the most polarizing for many Americans because of the fact that most of the bullshit he’s calling is from conservatism (though liberals shouldn’t be smug because vaccines save lives and do NOT cause autism).  What’s important here is not to discuss the nuance inherent to each of these political opinions, but rather to observe the impulse to pull back from action simply because “all the facts aren’t in.”

Obviously some courses of action, like going to war or asking that guy with the leather Aron-Ridge-35straps on his chest if he’d like to dance, should be reserved until all the facts are in, as the Iraq war and a brief affair at the Pleasure Dungeon taught everyone.  The call to say “we can’t act because we don’t know everything” is often spoken from individuals who stand to lose something from a particular course of action, and this reeks of bias and selfishness.  Also if Todd is reading this you left your straps in my car.

It’s not enough to just acknowledge that this “call” is bullshit, for in fact many individual citizens recognize bullshit for what it is.  What they often lack is the gumption, or sense of agency that they can act.

Stewart of course ends his speech by pointing this out and offering some hope for the future:

Now, the good news is this.  Bullshitters have gotten pretty lazy.  And their work is easily detected.  And looking for it is a kind of a pleasant way to pass the time.  Like an “I Spy” of bullshit.  So I say to you tonight, friends.  The best defense against bullshit is vigilance.  So if you smell something, say something.

I haven’t dug into this speech as much as I should, but as I said from the start, Bullshit is Everywhere does most of the work for you, and perhaps that’s the last real impact that the speech has on the reader/viewer.  Watching Stewart was never a strenuous exercise, and Bullshit is Everywhere really demonstrates the ethos the man had during his career.  The reason bullshit is everywhere is because, as he points out, it’s hidden beneath pretty words, long boring endless words, or words that say more words are dangerous.  Because of this many citizens refuse to challenge bullshit lest they be laughed at or challenged themselves.o-jon-stewart-ebola-facebook

Stewart provided his audience a net from which to act, because he didn’t mind being the person being laughed at.  I sometimes remark to people that Stewart in his prime served as a kind of medieval court jester for American Politics, for while his discussion about the Deficit and Fox News were always full of jokes, often at his own expense, they were riddled with truth and facts that tried only to show where the bullshit was and how much it stank.

Bullshit is Everywhere isn’t just Stewart’s speech however, for even after Stewart himself is gone the speech will live on (I’ll make sure of it, or maybe Todd will, why hasn’t he called ds_15125_03_16x9me).  In its simple way the speech offers up an important, and funny, reminder about what being a citizen of a republic is really about.  The powerful and the corrupt work principally in bullshit, and by explaining out the three types Stewart gives his audience a blueprint from which to dissect and “spot” bullshit so that it can be fought.

There are few speeches in American History that deal so pressingingly with the nature of civic responsibility, and even fewer that have the courtesy to cut the bullshit and get to the point.

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*Writer’s Note*

While I was writing this essay I struggled to find a transcript of Bullshit is Everywhere, nor could I find a website that had the full, unedited speech.  I managed to find a jpeg item that had the speech, but going forward that wasn’t what people needed (plus it itself was missing one or two items).  As such, I’ve placed the ENTIRE, UN-EDITED speech below so that the reader can have it as a resource.  Good Luck.

Bullshit is everywhere. 

Are the kids still here?  We’ll deal with that later.  Bullshit is everywhere.  There is very little that you will encounter in life that has not been, in some way, infused with bullshit; not all of it bad. The general day-to-day organic free-range bullshit is often necessary, or, at the very least, innocuous: “Oh, what a beautiful baby! I’m sure it’ll grow into that head!” That kind of bullshit, in many ways, provides important social contract fertilizer, which keeps people from making each other cry all day. But then, there’s the more pernicious bullshit; the premediated, institutional bullshit designed to obscure and distract. Designed by whom? The bullshit-ocracy. It comes in three basic flavors:

It comes in three basic flavors.  One, making bad things sound like good things.  Organic, all-natural cupcakes.  Because factory-made sugar oatmeal balls doesn’t sell.  Patriot Act.  Because “Are you scared enough to let me look at all your phone records” Act doesn’t sell.  So whenever something’s been titled Freedom Family Fairness Health America, take a good long sniff.  Chances are it’s been manufactured in a facility that may contain traces of bullshit.

Number two.  The second way, Hiding the bad things under mountains of bullshit.  Complexity.  You know, I would love to download Drizzy’s latest Meek Mill diss.  Everyone promised me that that made sense.  But I’m not really interested right now in reading Tolstoy’s iTunes agreement.  So I’ll just click agree, even if it grants Apple prima nocte with my spouse.  Here’s another one: Simply put.  Simply put.  Banks should be able to bet your pension money on red.  Bullshitly put, it’s, hey, this.  Dodd Frank.  Hey, a handful of billionaires can’t buy our elections right?  Of course not.  They can only pour unlimited, anonymous cash into a 501©4, otherwise they’d have to 501©6 it, or funnel it openly through a non-campaign coordinated super pac…(*whisper*)I think they’re asleep now, we can sneak out.

And finally, finally, it’s the bullshit of infinite possibility.  These Bullshitters cover their unwillingness to act under the guise of unending inquiry.  We can’t do anything because we don’t yet know everything.  We cannot take action on climate change, until everyone in the world agrees gay-marriage vaccines won’t cause our children to marry goats, who are going to come for our guns.  Until then, I say it leads to controversy.

Now, the good news is this.  Bullshitters have gotten pretty lazy.  And their work is easily detected.  And looking for it is a kind of a pleasant way to pass the time.  Like an “I Spy” of bullshit.  So I say to you tonight, friends.  The best defense against bullshit is vigilance.  So if you smell something, say something.

 

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a letter from a young atheist: in which we remember nine

19 Friday Jun 2015

Posted by Joshua Ryan "Jammer" Smith in Atheism, Race

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charleston-shooting Dear B——, We won’t be talking about Lewis today. We won’t be talking about atheism or religion. We’re going to talk about Charleston for just a moment. I found myself watching a recent clip from the Daily Show in which Jon Stewart abandoned all pretense for comedy, and instead just talked. The clip was just of a man reeling from disbelief, and addressing an issue many would not like to be discussed. And I found myself tearing up to the point that I had to bury my face while my wife held me. I’ve included a link to it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJl9iqnvkOE

In this nation of ours there is a divide between the world we seem to live in. There’s one world, in which white people believe that their way of life is being threatened, and that forces beyond their control are threatening their very way of life, their culture. There is another world, where men and women are being gunned down by bigots needlessly and senselessly, and those survivors of the victims quickly find themselves either incriminated for the sake of keeping the story sound or else told to buck up and stop making themselves the victim. The man who shot those nine people sat for an hour, in a church, in a fucking Bible study, before he whipped out a gun and told them that “You all rape women and you’re taking over our country.” The white people you’ll see on Facebook trying to say this issue isn’t about race are fooling themselves. This is about race. And I would love to get into the fact that this man was a terrorist, and explore the public discussion about how race affects our responses to these tragedies, and explore how in this country white christian racists are either ignored or validated, and get into the so-called lessons of morality, and end with the usual didactic message. But I don’t want to make this letter about me.  I don’t want it to be about an argument. Instead I just want to honor the dead here. I may not be part of their faith, but no human being deserves such a travesty. These people opened their arms and a devil stepped into their midst.

Rev. Clementa Pinckney

Rev. Sharonda Singleton

Myra Thompson

Tywanza Sanders

Ethel Lee Lance

Cynthia Hurd

Rev. Daniel L. Simmons

Sr. Rev. DePayne Middleton

Doctor Susie Jackson

It doesn’t matter what these people were. Atheists, Christians, Muslims, Pagans, etc. What matters is that they were people trying to get together and create an environment where people could come and feel safe. Where they could read the Bible and discuss it. At this moment the discourse takes a break. Let’s be human beings and take these nine people into our hearts thoughts, and yes…even prayers. Maybe that’s the lesson B—–, there’s a time and place for making your arguments, and then there’s a time to shut up for a moment and give people a chance to fuckin breathe. We’ll resume Lewis at a later time B——,. Hope all is well. Joshua “Jammer” Smith

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