Time Does Goatse!
Sep. 13th, 2004 11:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsOh my gods. If you don't know what "goatse" is, don't google for it. Especially don't google for it at work. It's very definitely Not Work Safe.
If you do, tell me: Hov did the cover artist for Time Magazine slip this one past the editors:
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I really want to know.
If you do, tell me: Hov did the cover artist for Time Magazine slip this one past the editors:
.I really want to know.
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Date: 2004-09-13 11:36 am (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse.cx
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Date: 2004-09-13 11:44 am (UTC)Oh, my.
I had completely missed that, but now that you mention it...
What were they *thinking*?!
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Date: 2004-09-13 12:11 pm (UTC)No. Fucking. Way.
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Date: 2004-09-13 01:13 pm (UTC)It's good imagery, though. America has been well and truly screwed, and it's going to take us a long time to fix the damage.
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Date: 2004-09-13 02:01 pm (UTC)Larger image
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Date: 2004-09-13 07:13 pm (UTC)So, given that....
Date: 2004-09-13 08:02 pm (UTC)What is goatse revealing?
Re: So, given that....
Date: 2004-09-14 05:01 am (UTC)Re: So, given that....
Date: 2004-09-14 07:29 pm (UTC)But yes, among other things that would be what he was showing.
Re: So, given that....
Date: 2004-09-15 10:48 am (UTC)I suppose in all seriousness, one could argue that the Goatse Man is, in fact, much like the aforementioned Superman pulling upen his button up-shirt to reveal the logo/logos emblazoned upon his chest. Much has been made of the observation that Superman's allure is that he IS in fact a superhero from the very start, and the Clark Kent persona merely a disguise, as opposed to those like Spiderman or Batman whose superhero attire is the disguise of the all-too-mundane body which lies beneath, an irreducible thrall to the normative ethos of the eroto-academic (for Peter Parker) or the capitalist-industrial (for Bruce Wayne). But for all his power and superior vision, Superman willingly circumscribes his interaction with the Universe to the stunted emotional horizons of the nebbish Clark persona. When he takes off his iconic glasses, the only mask he wears, still we see only his facade. He faces the world head on, with his impassive chiselled chin and a stiff upper lip, a massively broad chest, charging at it like an obstacle to be subdued. He is unwilling to reveal his soft, vulnerable ante-chambers, to let anyone inside his icebound Fortress of SuperEgo Solitude. We see only his face. We are never invited to explore his arse.
Goatse Man is the anti-Superman. He, too, is fundamentally a super-hero -- but he has the courage to let us in behind...
And by that simple act, by facing away from us and asstutely priviledging a backward exploration of himself through his Id, he breaks the rules of mundane society, society which puts premium on controlled, close-lipped, tightly pursed, anally-retentive "politeness" in our interaction with each other. His superhuman power, with its asspects of dilation and flexibility, endangers and destabilizes the preconceived notions of rigid boundaries between ourselves and the Other, the inside and the outside. He opens himself to the universal flux of energy and gathers that power in his basal chakra, arousing the Kundalini resting in the labyrinth of his gut feelings to a dance which can lead to one goal only -- fully embodied spiritual enlightenment. The darkness we see by looking inside of him is the darkness of mystery, the Abyss which contains scattered within the treasures of wisdom. It cannot be forced to yield them by Superman's deadly, steely, "scientific" eyes; before those such as him, the Cloud of Unknowing retreats into silence. It can only be plumbed if we make the lesser, human-scaled effort, and step in through Goatse Man's warm, waiting, passive and sexualized portal --into Sophia, and into ourselves as fully actualized butt-pirates.
Ah, I see the confusion...
Date: 2004-09-15 06:11 pm (UTC)I have to say, that was beautiful.
Thank you.
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Date: 2004-09-14 06:56 am (UTC)You know, I've always wondered where the Mob hid JImmy Hoffa ...
As an Act of Subversion, It's Beautiful....
Date: 2004-09-14 11:13 am (UTC)In general, I predict the reaction of those who know would be to laugh, not to be scandalized.
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Date: 2004-09-15 08:09 am (UTC)I think they got they hands too close together.
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