I fucking hate Chuck Norris
He is symbolic of whats wrong with the right wing. He cultivates a rugged tough man image, and then idiots believe that means he's an actual hero. Most idiots who have seen too many episodes of Walker are more likely to listen to him on international security issues than the president. In many ways he's like John Wayne, who used his image to push his right wing agenda. Neither one ever served in combat. And while I'd be the first to say that means absolutely nothing, they both actively pursue an image of the combat hero. John Wayne more so, but they both do it. But that's not enough for Norris, he also uses his soapbox in front of the unthinking masses to push his religious agenda. Hell he even used that retarded TV show of his to opening push Christianity. In the 5 minutes of an episode I could stomach he showcased a group of roided up freaks who go around the country performing feats of strength all the while claiming its only with the power of Jesus they're able to do it. Really you giant man-bears? If it was the power of some long dead carpenter's son then why can't regular sized believers do it? Oh that's right, its the power of HGH, steroids and work.
The last part is the most important, everyone who gives credit to God for their accomplishments is doing nothing but devaluing human achievement. Going to the moon, why that was God. Not the hard work of some of the smartest people in the world. Advances in medicine are discredited as meaningless because some figment of our collective imagination holds ultimate power over all of us. It just struck me how cyclical that thinking is. We developed religion and myth because we feel so small and powerless in the vastness of the world. That got worse when we started to understand the vastness of the universe. Now that we not only understand how small and fragile we really are, hell our home planet is small and fragile in the grand scheme of things, we are more frightened so we turn ever harder towards the comforting embrace of unthinking devotion. The more we learn, the smaller we feel, the more likely we are to shun that damn book learnin' that made us feel small and embrace utter bullshit. We wrap ourselves in the warm blanket of ignorance and call it bliss. It's this feeling of worthlessness that drives people to marry and have kids. They know how insignificant they are so they want kids, a legacy. Someone to remember them when they are gone. It of course won't work. Sure your kids will remember you, and your grand kids if you live long enough. Hell lets pretend you will be healthy long enough to meet your great grand kids. Not just meet them, but be a big enough part of their lives that they remember you when they're old. Do you really think their kids will give a fuck? No. Maybe they'll know your name and that you were a district manager at a paper company (yes, I mean Michael Scott from the Office, he's who springs to mind when I think well intentioned idiot). But will they know you? No. Of all the people who have lived we care to know so few, what makes them think they're special enough to merit inclusion on that list? I, frankly, know I won't be remembered 100 years from now. You don't see me trying to create a legacy with my dick.
Wow, that was a little bit of a disconnect, even for me. Now back to that oozing asshole Chuck Norris. Along with all of his other faults he is a douche bag without a sense of irony. Before those stupid Chuck Norris emails started circulating a ways back he was well on his way to obscurity. But then when a website that started the trend tried to publish a book of them, he got litigious. That's right, even though no one would give a flying fuck without those emails he was preventing more free publicity by suing to stop the publication. Meanwhile this "great patriot" continued shilling that weak ass gym (we carried them at Oshman's back in the day, they sucked) with a tax cheat. Way to go you flag waving moron. I wish there was a hell so that people like you could suffer the way you've made anyone with half a brain suffer by inserting your bullshit into the collective consciousness of society.
Labels: Chuck Norris, meaning of life, Religion

