In Defense of Juggalos.

[Internet Jesus]

Has anyone considered that Juggalos are to human culture as random mutations are to genetics? That this is how new cultures get started, evolution, just on a cultural not genetic level?  And that it's only the presence of a Global Monoculture that keeps these offshoots so weak and, frankly, goofy as fuck?

Yes, I am high, but just think about it......

[V3X]

Objectively, they're not even that weird. If I was an alien sent to study human cultures, and I was supposed to outline the differences between Juggalos and any other group of deluded shitnecks on the planet, I would probably only be able to come up with "awful music."

That doesn't justify their existence, though.

[M. Nigel Salt]

Has anyone considered that Juggalos are to human culture as random mutations are to genetics? That this is how new cultures get started, evolution, just on a cultural not genetic level?  And that it's only the presence of a Global Monoculture that keeps these offshoots so weak and, frankly, goofy as fuck?

Yes, I am high, but just think about it......

Dude, hell yes! Of course! I mean, do you know who you're TALKING TO?

[Internet Jesus]

Has anyone considered that Juggalos are to human culture as random mutations are to genetics? That this is how new cultures get started, evolution, just on a cultural not genetic level?  And that it's only the presence of a Global Monoculture that keeps these offshoots so weak and, frankly, goofy as fuck?

Yes, I am high, but just think about it......

Dude, hell yes! Of course! I mean, do you know who you're TALKING TO?

People who recognize that even though we've outgrown it, we're all still slaves to our monkey brains?

[LMNO, PhD (life continues)]

Dude, are you sure this is the first time you've been to these boards?

[Verbal Mike]

I was half-convinced he was a TGRR alt. Still haven't completely ruled it out.

[Internet Jesus]

Dude, are you sure this is the first time you've been to these boards?

Yup, but I have read a shitload of Warren Ellis, so I figure I can at least sound like I know what the fuck I'm talking about.

Hey! I just realized there may be an upside to having misspent my youth in comic book nerdery! 

Perhaps I might be able to turn my pro-wrestling obsession into something useful too.  Beyond the universal theory of Buddhist Kayfabe, that is.

[Internet Jesus]

I was half-convinced he was a TGRR alt. Still haven't completely ruled it out.

I wish I was.  I would have actual minions then, instead of the lame non-union henchmen.

[LMNO, PhD (life continues)]

But at least you don't have those collective-bargaining negotiations.  Those things can be brutal. 

YOU'LL WEAR THE SHINY AQUAMARINE ONE-PIECE UNIFORM, AND YOU'LL LIKE IT, FUCKERS!

[Internet Jesus]

I hadn't considered the evil benefits to running an open shop in my plans to world domination.  I just always thought it was bad policy from an HR standpoint.  I mean look at COBRA.  They were an open shop, took just about anyone, and they couldn't even get extortion done correctly.

Ok, I will cop to having lurked here for quite a while.  Ever since TGRR used a term of mine in his dictionary.  But that's just good common sense, you don't jump into a community without getting an idea of what it's about.

[M. Nigel Salt]

Has anyone considered that Juggalos are to human culture as random mutations are to genetics? That this is how new cultures get started, evolution, just on a cultural not genetic level?  And that it's only the presence of a Global Monoculture that keeps these offshoots so weak and, frankly, goofy as fuck?

Yes, I am high, but just think about it......

Dude, hell yes! Of course! I mean, do you know who you're TALKING TO?

People who recognize that even though we've outgrown it, we're all still slaves to our monkey brains?

Bingo.

[Internet Jesus]

So then what is the relationship to the monkey brain in its proper context?  I mean, I kinda dig mine, but I do have to remind myself that it generally fixates on bullshit.  Other people's monkey brains, not so much.

Serious non-dickhead question.

[M. Nigel Salt]

So then what is the relationship to the monkey brain in its proper context?  I mean, I kinda dig mine, but I do have to remind myself that it generally fixates on bullshit.  Other people's monkey brains, not so much.

Serious non-dickhead question.

The relationship of Juggalos?

[Internet Jesus]

Not just juggalos, but for people.

Yes, I wondered off topic, I know. 

[LMNO, PhD (life continues)]

So then what is the relationship to the monkey brain in its proper context? 

Much like raising a retarded child.  Plenty of love and understanding, but never let it drive.