Anybody ever wonder...

[eumelia]

Why teenagers (and those who are older and should really know better) walk around wearing shirts and badges bearing the face of this man.
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Who was a violent militant and caused the deaths of hundreds of people.

Personally, if I were to wear a shirt or badge with the head of a man, I'd wear his:


Those of you who have difficulty recognizing this revolutionary man: This would be Mahatma Gandhi.

Think about it.

In addition, the genocide in Darfur must be stopped.

וכמו כן, צריך לעצור את רצח העם בדרפור.

Comments

[yossych.livejournal.com]

I, personally, like your idea, since the people with the Guevara T-Shirts are usually not communists\socialists, merely juvenile.

However, what "face" would you suggest for a sceptic agnostic with existentialist leanings who disproves of idolatry of people, symbols, causes and especially "-isms"?

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

A Cubist image of Sartre :)

[yossych.livejournal.com]

The whole time I was typing the silent plea "No one mention Sartre, no one mention Sartre..." kept repeating itself inside my head.

I guess this is what one gets for failing to specify ALL pet peeves.


To redeem myself, however, and salvage this reply from uselessness, I would supply the obligatory unfunny Philosophy joke:



The French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre was sitting in a cafe when a waitress approached him: "Can I get you something to drink, Monsieur Sartre?"

Sartre replied, "Yes, I'd like a cup of coffee with sugar, but no cream".

Nodding agreement, the waitress walked off to fill the order and Sartre returned to working. A few minutes later, however, the waitress returned and said, "I'm sorry, Monsieur Sartre, we are all out of cream -- how about with no milk?"

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

Kierkegaard?
De Beauvoir?

[yossych.livejournal.com]

I guess my joke wasn't clear enough outside my own perspective.
What I meant can be simplified into a shirt bearing the slogan: "If you're reading this, stop and form your own opinion based on independent research and thought."

I just hate mindless sheep, regardless to their spoon-fed opinions or political tendencies.
And nothing says mindless sheep more than a T-shirt representing a concept with which you're unfamiliar.

Now, if people could stop saying the same slogans they are wearing and think instead, I would be really happy, but I guess things have to start small.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

*shrug* Can't help you there... I'm going with Gandhi and an appropriate quote.

I'm sure you'll figure something for yourself :)

[arnavtul.livejournal.com]

One of your pet peeves is Sartre? That is cool. Gotta like a person who has pet peeves which include philosophers.
How do you feel about Lacan?

[yossych.livejournal.com]

Once again, I have not made myself clear enough.
I have no problem with Sartre himself, but rather the immediate connection regularly made between him and the general philosophical approach for which he was known.

Very similar to attacks on a particular genre of culture\art, based on faulty misconceptions about specific representatives of said genre (i.e "Detective stories are pulp". Can one consider "The Brothers Karamazov" and "Crime and Punishment" the same type of pulp? Both are early examples of the genre, with the same motifs as present-day whodunits.)

Ha!

[arnavtul.livejournal.com]

You beat me to it, that was EXACTLY what I was going to say!