#symantics

One “fuck” per season. I totally missed this one even after watching this episode like three or four times. I was expecting someone to yell at Bojack like the past three seasons. And I guess “fuck” is such a common word especially as a 22 year old living in America in 2017 that it kind of went over my head. But the fact that they use fuck only once per season is something I really appreciate. 

If something is used on very rare occasions, it creates an emphasis. If goody two shoes swears then you know something is up. Which by the way, I know this one girl from college who was the purest person ever, she refused to listen to hip hop music. She was also a social justice warrior type of person who often posted about political issues, but like I said, she was the purest person ever so she wasn’t in your face. Just spreading awareness and how we can help. If you talked to her in real life, she was super friendly. She survived college and was still this super pure person. Then one day, she made another social justice awareness facebook post and she said “fucking”. The sentence was “I see how fucking foolish I am”. And I kid you not my heart skipped a beat when I read that. The point is, something loses its value when its used all the time. If my friends here me say fuck they’ll just think I didn’t catch something in Pokemon Go or something. 

I see connections. I see narratives. I’m good at it. I had to be.

But I dont make connections. I see them. I can’t create them, only understand them.

As a result thing tend to float in my mind listlessly. I suck in information constantly and wait for things to collide.

Circumstances of colliding clarity.

Its not an elegant system. But by Christ does it work.

For instance: rules of three have been on a rampage lately. (as have dichotomies)

Also, social issues. Visibility, rights, acceptance.

Failures to achieve those.

When enough little things stick together they solidify as a core idea. Usually that requires three concepts come to think of it.

See threes are so, so powerful.

Body, mind, soul. Father, son, holy ghost Maiden, mother, crone Good, bad, ugly

(If you ask me the reason for this is blindingly obvious and can be boiled down to: Me, You, Us )

(Me, you, them is a perversion of that)

That or, Yknow:

Ethos, Pathos, Logos.

Three’s are taught throughout rhetoric as tools of balance, tools of compulsion, tools of power.

Two of something are options. Three of something is a group. Three is a pattern.

Truth. Justice. The american way. I came, I saw, I conquered Life,liberty,the pursuit of happiness.

Concept, concept concept. Assertion, assertion, assertion.

Three like things grouped together have incredible power.

Today’s moment of clarity?

“We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it”

Assertion. Assertion. REQUEST

The formula is wrong.

It doesn’t work. Conceptually nor in practise. Doesn’t anchor the point. Doesn’t control the rhetoric. Hell it ends in handing control to others. It ends in a request.

You might call it a demand but the thing is: a demand is a request made *under threat of power*

The powerless, the oppressed? They cannot make demands. If they had the power to demand things they.. Well it would be their fault that it hasn’t happened. But they don’t have that power.

But assertions, truth, truth is its own power. (Even if it isn’t factual really.)

Assertion, assertion, assertion.

We’re here. We’re queer. We matter.