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100 Days of Trump: Day 17, A Series of Unfortunate Events

Welcome back to 100 Days of Trump where I recommend works to try to understand WTF happened in 2016 and how we can deal with Trump today. And what else can sum up the lat 18 months and likely the next 18 months to come than A Series of Unfortunate events. Just to be clear, I am not talking to the TV show or the movie, the movie is fine and I haven't seen the show, I am talking about the books here.

So there is a lot to recommend about Lemony Snicket’s fun at the expense of the english language, they are funny, they have great scenerios, they serve as a great Lit 101 work, and it has great meta commentary, but I want to talk about the theme of Count Olaf and the role of the adults. The thing is, Count Olaf isn’t just evil, he is a fucking idiot. His disguises are absolutely awful, he is horribly ignorant and unaware of basic concepts, he consistently undermines his own schemes by the fact he is easily tricked. If the world of SoUE was even slightly competent, Olaf would be in jail and no threat to anyone....but here is the thing, as stupid as Olaf is, the adults of this world are even stupider. SoUE is full of adult characters who are well meaning and kind, but are so fucking stupid that Count Olaf and company are able to trick their way past them with the bare minimum of effort, if any of them payed even the slightest bit of attention he would be caught by the adults are buying in way too much into the Just World Fallacy, the assumption that the world is a fundamentally fair place and that bad consequences must be the result of bad behavior, and so they ignore the children who are constantly saying “holy shit guys, its Count Olaf, fucking do something about it”. They don’t learn from experience, they value the rule of law without any understanding of its workings, and they view the siblings being impolite as equivalent to Olaf being a murderer....what i’m saying here is that the adults are the news media today. These people aren’t evil, they are just unbelievably stupid and are convinced they understand how the world works despite having an extremely small minded view of the world.

If you want a primer on gas lighting, normalization, the Golden Mean Fallacy, false Equivalence, the Just World Fallacy, and just all the little ways those whose job it is to defend us regularly fail no matter how well meaning, I recommend you giving this a look, it is a good primer of how to go on in a world which has not only gone mad, but is too stupid to notice.

#100 days of Trump #Count Olaf #series of unfortunate events #gas lighting #Golden Mean Fallacy #Lemony Snicket #Daniel Handler #baudeliare #violet baudelaire #Klaus Baudlaire #Sunny Baudelaire #Donald Trump

My Insect Funeral (Part 9)

When I was a child I had a graveyard where I buried insects and dead birds under a rose tree. I would bury the insects in tin foil and match boxes. I would bury the birds in pieces of red cloth. It was all very sad and I would cry as I scooped the dirt into their small graves with a spoon. Baudelaire would come and join in my insect funerals, saying little prayers the size of dead birds.

-Richard Brautigan

The Galilee Hitch-Hiker, 1958

#richard brautigan #brautigan #poet #poem #beat #insect #funeral #baudeliare

A Series of Unfortunate Events → Klaus Baudelaire

#love em all so much #klaus #klaus Baudelaire #baudeliare #baudelaires #Baudelaire orphans #count Olaf #lemony snicket #a series of unfortunate events #asoue #klaus Baudelaire aesthetic #asoue aesthetic #asoue moodboard

Salvador Dali (Part 6)

Are you or aren't you going to eat your soup, you bloody old cloud merchant?" Jeanne Duval shouted, hitting Baudelaire on the back as he sat daydreaming out the window. Baudelaire was startled. Then he laughed like hell, waving his spoon in the air like a wand changing the room into a painting by Salvador Dali, changing the room into a painting by Van Gogh.

-Richard Brautigan

The Galilee Hitch-Hiker, 1958

#richard brautigan #brautigan #beat #poet #poem #dali #baudeliare #van gogh #soup

A Series of Unfortunate Events → Sunny Baudelaire

#sunny Baudelaire #sunny #baudeliare #baudelaires #Baudelaire orphans #asoue #lemony snicket #a series of unfortunate events #asoue moodboard #asoue aesthetic

Insane Asylum (Part 8)

Baudelaire went to the insane asylum disguised as a psychiatrist. He stayed there for two months and when he left, the insane asylum loved him so much that it followed him all over California, and Baudelaire laughed when the insane asylum rubbed itself up against his leg like a strange cat.

-Richard Brautigan

The Galilee Hitch-Hiker, 1958

#richard brautigan #brautigan #beat #poet #poem #asylum #baudeliare #cat #california

The Flowerburgers (Part 4)

Baudelaire opened up a hamburger stand in San Francisco, but he put flowers between the buns. People would come in and say, "Give me a hamburger with plenty of onions on it." Baudelaire would give them a flowerburger instead and the people would say, "What kind of a hamburger stand is this?"

-Richard Brautigan

The Galilee Hitch-Hiker, 1958

#richard brautigan #brautigan #poet #poem #beat #flowerburger #baudeliare #sanfrancisco #sf #hamburger

A Baseball Game (Part 7)

Baudelaire went to a baseball game and bought a hot dog and lit up a pipe of opium. The New York Yankees were playing the Detroit Tigers. In the fourth inning an angel committed suicide by jumping off a low cloud. The angel landed on second base, causing the whole infield to crack like a huge mirror. The game was called on account of fear.

-Richard Brautigan

The Galilee Hitch-Hiker, 1958