Monday, November 04, 2013

Today's Internets - "...sheer elegance in its simplicity."

"What you don’t understand you can make mean anything." - Chuck Palahniuk

People can be awesome.


"You may watch The Middleman and come to the conclusion that our characters live in a fantasy world: an unreal realm where friendships are sustaining and sustained, where heroism is rewarded not with tragedy and further burden, by with hope—and where evil is the result not of an unbeatable, unknowable, and all-encompassing conspiracy, but of a stone-headed unwillingness to face the challenges of life with common human decency.

You may even be tempted to think that the worldview of The Middleman is naive, that you have been watching a bunch of Pollyannas spinning away childish fantasies of positivity…

…and as you walk away into the inky moral darkness of our complicated world—the truth of cruel, cold, and meaningless existence—you may even be tempted to smile at a stranger you pass on the street…maybe because you are amused by our callow misunderstanding of life’s bitter reality…maybe because you look at us and our little show as one might a child who doesn’t know any better…

…or maybe just because it looks like that stranger on the street could use a smile.

And when you do…just remember…our plan is sheer elegance in its simplicity." - Middleman comic and TV show creator Javier Grillo-Marxuach
























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