Sunday, January 11, 2009

The Meanest Pie Chart Ever.

Isn't life just better when you AREN'T politically correct?
Life is just funnier when you're not worrying about all the different groups you could be offending.
And this is something that I have actually learned from a university course, and university textbook to be more precise. It came through the revelation of the Meanest Pie Chart Ever. Which turned out to also be the Most Hilarious Pie Chart Ever. I would be a terrible person to use this pie chart as an inside group among my friends. I just felt I should say that so I had acknowledged the fact that I was a terrible person. That pie chart is funny, funny material - I couldn't pass that up.
Posting it on the internet, however, would probably upset large groups of people because it is "offensive", i.e. not politically correct. Let's just say it broke up a certain minority group into categories. Hilarious categories. Categories that were not even trying to be politically correct.
And from that we're back at the fact that life is simply funnier when you are not concerned about who you may be offending, and that apparently includes the writers of textbooks.
The greatest example of being unconcerned with the feelings of others is a man who is renowned, beloved, and hated for being the complete opposite of politically correct. I think the most frequent term used to described him is "royal asshole". I love this man. I bought his book. I read his blog (www.tuckermax.com). I think he is the new definition of genius. That is, he is not intelligent in the traditional sense, but he is smart enough to have tapped into that guilty pleasure that is ingrained within every human being and totally exploited it. Not just anyone will admit to loving this man - leas tof all women. Which should give you an idea of exactly who the main target of his escapades is. What I truly love about Tucker, though, is not just his complete lack of concern for human dignity or sensitivity, it's that he is able to fully admit what he does, and yet is modest and honest enough about it that he doesn't seem malicious. He is simply living his life within the bounds of hilarity. However, at the end of the day, as much as I relish in those inside jokes that have a complete disregard for offensiveness, or the love I have of a man who has a complete lack of humanity and who, if raised differently, may have become a sociopath, I can't be him, and I can't always disregard the feelings of others.
Few people can.
It's ingrained into us by society that we should care for others, for their feelings and differences, and so, as hilarious as the Meanest Pie Chart Ever is, it's still a very cruel pie chart.

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