Chicagoist: Review: "What Would Jesus Buy?"

Ferdy

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:18:36 -0600

I will agree that the premise for this movie isn't going to knock anyone out with its originality. I'm not sure it needs to, though, WMIR. Perhaps its aspirations are merely to entertain and make money (hmmm, the irony...). So why don't you stop bothering us and get back to that doctoral dissertation in philosophy you've been working on for 15 years.

Navin

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:44:33 -0600

Or did I interrupt the whole "we're so sophisticated, smarter than those rubes who live in Naperville" circle jerk? If so, my apologies. Continue only talking to people who agree with you it is easier than thinking. I see, you just come around to break up the groupthink and tell all of us sheeple how it really is! A socratic gadfly rather than just a simple troll. Rock on!

Ferdy

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:02:45 -0600

Hee hee, Rob. So true! You notice how Newspeak really exists now?

matty

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:01:58 -0600

I dunno, Americans shop. We've been trained to since the 19th century. Why is that something to devote your life to fighting? I haven't bought shit this year but it's not cause I read adbusters and listen to reverend billy. I just have no desire to. *shrug*

Ferdy

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:01:06 -0600

Hee hee, Rob.

Rob Christopher

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:50:43 -0600

@Ferdy: it's like what Tom Lehrer once said, "Satire died the day that Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize."

whymustiregister

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:48:18 -0600

That was bitching, not whining. What's wrong with deeply conventional recycled insight of 30-something hipsters, still rebelling against a caricature of the world around them? I don't know...maybe people should be able to do better than burning straw men so they can bask in the warmth of their own "deep" insights? Maybe they should ditch the adolescence and come up with something original to say before opening their mouths? Or did I interrupt the whole "we're so sophisticated, smarter than those rubes who live in Naperville" circle jerk? If so, my apologies. Continue only talking to people who agree with you it is easier than thinking.

Shannon

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:38:11 -0600

i'd like it better if if he were a real, honest-to-god preacher...but then if he were, i probably wouldn't pay any attention to him. yup, i'm an american.

Navin

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:32:59 -0600

Have you ever had anything to say about anything that wasn't whining ever? I mean even your user name's a complaint about the site. Why do you even read it? As for Reverend Billy I heard him on Tavis Smiley the other night, he's pretty funny. He's got the crazed snake oil salesman, preacher thing down.

Ferdy

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:32:49 -0600

It's hard to parody American life because it's already a parody.

whymustiregister

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:21:18 -0600

Wow. That's amazingly, deeply, insightful. I bet they are the first people to ever think that.