Shoot Laughing Bombs. Not Discriminatory Shots!
I mean, because we are capable of dead serious humor.
I actually did not have the time and attention capacity to write today, but Liam Ireland’s story caught my attention. That story is about racial discrimination. People can relate to instances where how we look matters more than anything else from within.
He wrote a compelling piece, and I am attaching it here.
Discrimination is a serious topic, and it is presented to us when we are very young. You might think otherwise. However, do you remember reading a fable by the title of The Ugly Duckling?
I managed to pull a snippet of that fable from the internet. Here we go.
But, nonetheless, the mother duck promised herself that she would love all her children the same.
She led her children into the nearby pond and began to teach each duckling how to be a proper duck.
She taught them how to quack. Each duckling quacked.
QUACK!! QUACK!! QUACK!! QUACK!!
The ugly duckling quacked.
CROAK!!
All of the ducks in the pond stared at the ugly ducking and began to laugh. The mother duckling sadly took her little ducklings over to a different part of the pond. The other ducklings were giggling and making fun of the ugly one. Two nearby ducks swam by and pecked at the ugly duckling’s feathers.
“This one looks nothing like your others!” one jested.
“This one is ugly!” the other scoffed.
The ugly duckling hung his head in shame. The mother duckling became very embarrassed of her ugly duckling and made him stay in the corner of the pond while the others practiced swimming, diving, quacking, and splashing.
The original intent of the story was to accept differences permeating in our societies and to understand that we will turn out better in the future — I have to say this.
Our eyes are now open to differences.
With all fairness to that point, differences have their place. We have to hire the best candidate for the job by sifting out the best one after aligning them from ideal to see you next time. It is the same system used for scholarship selection.
Differences matter because we are trying to allocate scarce resources to a population pool. The ability to compete and rise to the top allows us to prosper further.
I have nothing against that. That system brought us to where we are today.
Sometimes, We Need A Perspective. Marvel’s Avengers Is A Brilliant Laughing Bomb.
Marvel’s The Endgame presents good humor.
I mean, look, all Thanos has been wanting to do is to collect colorful marbles and snap his fingers. That is everything that he wanted to do. Yet, the entire universe is trying to stop him from doing that. Reality is cruel.
He is one severely disappointed old coot, measured in light-years.
How about Captain America?
Everyone admires his perfect physique and perky bum (okay, really, that is hard to train for), and we wrongfully believe that he trains hard in the gym for that. No! He plays frisbee with his Vibranium shield! That is why!
Even the touching final “Avengers Assemble” scene against Thanos is humorous. I do not understand why people are touched when Dr. Strange transported every hero from a different time horizon to fight against Thanos and his army.
I would have done it differently.
I would have opened the time portal and transported Thanos’s army somewhere else, leaving the Old Man there to be slaughtered by the heroes. Now, that is fun!
Marriage Can Be Humorous Too.
Of course, laughing bombs transcends culture even when we do not understand the language.
Take, for instance, the following: -
“What are the nagging that husbands fear the most?”
These are the answers as surveyed by working Koreans in their 20s and 30s.
- __________ .
- “Do not come home too late after drinking.”
- “I am sick and tired of you. You smell like stinky dog poo when you are not working, and the kids complain to me daily about you. Go take a shower, puppy poo!”
- “Do not take out your socks inside out!”
- “Stop lying on the sofa and play with the kids!”
I leave the first one for you to find out. Honestly, I almost died because it is so true, and I never even thought about it. This is the clip, do watch to the end for a good laugh!
Humor transcends culture.
What Happens If Goldilocks Barged In The House Of 3 Dinosaurs?
How fun would that be?
That is why I find it so enjoyable to read the story of Goldilocks and The Three Dinosaurs.
Humans discriminate. I suspect Tyrannosaurus Rex does not.
Aldric
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