Ever been cock-blocked by your own stomach? Just this past week, I hit it off strong with a cute girl. I didn’t intend to game her, but over the course of the night she went from sitting away, to sitting on the couch beside me and then basically right next to me. I looked like shit at only having 3 hours of sleep the previous night and smelled like shit. She went the bathroom at this informal get together and let her hair down and began to openly hit on me when she got back. She dared me to a take a shot, which I did but I felt my stomach react badly. I already knew my stomach was not happy, but my drinking was going along. I puked my guts out in the toilet and she left. I spent the next two days nursing a bad food-poisoning incident. No worries, though, as she texted many times making sure I was safe. We are going to the same party tomorrow and it is on for sure.
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However, the point of that was to highlight I spent the last two days on the couch watching TV. My Mom has Huluplus and I spent the past two days watching American Dad!. I have seen the show on Adult Swim and it grew on me. I did not like it at first, but it did grow on me. Let’s step through the characters, the general plots and some red-pill analysis.
Stan Smith: The patriarch who is supposed to be a caricature of conservative Christian Republicans. He is displayed as lacking real emotions, being hyper-masculine and being too dominating. He portrayed as a narcissist who lacks the ability to consider the needs of those around him.
Francine Smith: Stan’s wife. She is superficial and portrayed as boring. She is prone to outbursts and generally being dumb, oppressed by her husband. She is a moralizer who often displays levels of serious hypocrisy and inability to understand her own ignorance.
Lena Smith: Their only daughter. She is the “most open minded individual.” She is often portrayed as the voice of reason and the only person with a conscience on the show. However, she is prone to violent outrages and is a typical hypergamic young female. She has some encounters with various types of alphas and has a beta male BF/husband in a schlub named Jeff.
Steve Smith: A young beta/omega nerd. He clearly is insecure, mostly likely because of his father’s narcissistic posturing. He has a group of fellow betas/omegas and they are quintessential nerds. Stan often exhorts Steve to grow up and be more mature. Since Stan doesn’t understand how to become confident or masculine, he has little ability to help his son climb up the sexual social ladder.
Roger the Alien: A rank narcissist that only knows how to put on a show. His disguises often fool people outside the family - a way of conveying most people don’t understand the true nature of most narcissists. He is bisexual and craves approval. He is also an alcoholic – which further reinforces his narcissism. However, they still all love him – a true issue as most people get addicted to the great shows that narcissists put on, the braze generosity they show occasionally and just the general inversion of their selfishness as selflessness that makes people want to believe he has changed.
General Plot Lines: One of the main impulses of the show, especially early on, is to mock straight, white male Republicans. They portray Stan’s patriotic and Republican impulses as ridiculous and, often, hypocritical. They criticize patriotism and mock America. They also take strong issue with Christianity and conservative politics. The underlying theory is that the nuclear family is hypocritical, unstable and unfairly oppressive towards woman and children. Early plot lines revolve around Stan’s lack of empathy. Is it any surprise woman’s studies major Lena is portrayed as the most consistently aware, intelligent and compassionate character? Later plot lines are more surrealist, as Roger factors in more and more.
Later plot lines involve exploring Steve’s beta friends. Lena and her husband Jeff factor in more. It is a show that really comes along later on. However, let’s chop up some red-pill analysis about the show.
Red-pill Analysis: At the superficial level, this show is little more than more liberal fare seeking to expose the nuclear family as flawed and in need of change. However, the focus over the course of the seasons and presented a more balanced view.
Let’s talk about Lawrence Auster. His view of the “unprincipled exception” has merit here. His principle was that liberal autonomy theory was limited by reality. People can’t have supreme autonomy, but need their autonomy limited at some existent. They rule “Your rights end where mine begin” sums up modern liberal autonomy theory, but admits the limits of the theory. Liberals talk a big game about creating more autonomy and freeing humanity from artificial chains and allowing real humans to change the world for the better. Earlier forms of this autonomy theory were pro-free market, now they are more socialist. Go figure.
There are some main problems with the show. First, is the insistent attack on the nuclear family. Early seasons portray the nuclear family as a sham, held together only by patriarchal social shaming. While social shaming does hold families together, it is often for the benefit of wider society that depends on stable family structures as a whole. Early on, they display this family as exclusively needing that shaming. Also, their insistence on portraying the male father figure as a compassionless and self-absorbed person furthers liberal critiques of nuclear family structure. Stan is shown as a narcissistic person who only cares about his image and career.
Doubling down on stereotypes, they seek further undermine the nuclear family. The creators fails to recognize psychological issues in America, they just critique the structures that evolve from that psychology. They don’t want to go in on American psychology because that might mean dissecting liberal psychology. They just want to skim the psychology of conservative Republicans to feed their base. No real analysis here – not even some real critiques of social conservatism or the free market. Just typical downing of Republican families.
Which is an issue – while divorce is growing amongst Republican families, it still is lower than Democrats. However, the gap is closing as the politics in America are narrowing and focusing on superficialities of politics – OMG what about gay marriage?!?! That is the point, distract from the relevant and focus on the mostly irrelevant.
Let’s conclude this with some observations. Later episodes ease off the anti-family rhetoric – they seem to admit that the nuclear family is important. Of course, a gay couple raising a daughter is introduced – have to satisfy those blank-slaters.
Mothers and fathers both provide real value to children. Mothers are more likely to hug their kids, ask them to express their emotions and do for them. Fathers are more likely to just touch their kids, tell them how to help themselves and teach them to help themselves. A mother’s approach is the approach for a young infant and child, but as a kid grows up, the father becomes more important.
I remember reading an article about church attending habits of teenagers who become young adults. The most important fact - whether the father went to church regularly. That decides whether the kids will be regular attenders. The most affected gender? It’s women.
That is all.
However, the point of that was to highlight I spent the last two days on the couch watching TV. My Mom has Huluplus and I spent the past two days watching American Dad!. I have seen the show on Adult Swim and it grew on me. I did not like it at first, but it did grow on me. Let’s step through the characters, the general plots and some red-pill analysis.
Stan Smith: The patriarch who is supposed to be a caricature of conservative Christian Republicans. He is displayed as lacking real emotions, being hyper-masculine and being too dominating. He portrayed as a narcissist who lacks the ability to consider the needs of those around him.
Francine Smith: Stan’s wife. She is superficial and portrayed as boring. She is prone to outbursts and generally being dumb, oppressed by her husband. She is a moralizer who often displays levels of serious hypocrisy and inability to understand her own ignorance.
Lena Smith: Their only daughter. She is the “most open minded individual.” She is often portrayed as the voice of reason and the only person with a conscience on the show. However, she is prone to violent outrages and is a typical hypergamic young female. She has some encounters with various types of alphas and has a beta male BF/husband in a schlub named Jeff.
Steve Smith: A young beta/omega nerd. He clearly is insecure, mostly likely because of his father’s narcissistic posturing. He has a group of fellow betas/omegas and they are quintessential nerds. Stan often exhorts Steve to grow up and be more mature. Since Stan doesn’t understand how to become confident or masculine, he has little ability to help his son climb up the sexual social ladder.
Roger the Alien: A rank narcissist that only knows how to put on a show. His disguises often fool people outside the family - a way of conveying most people don’t understand the true nature of most narcissists. He is bisexual and craves approval. He is also an alcoholic – which further reinforces his narcissism. However, they still all love him – a true issue as most people get addicted to the great shows that narcissists put on, the braze generosity they show occasionally and just the general inversion of their selfishness as selflessness that makes people want to believe he has changed.
General Plot Lines: One of the main impulses of the show, especially early on, is to mock straight, white male Republicans. They portray Stan’s patriotic and Republican impulses as ridiculous and, often, hypocritical. They criticize patriotism and mock America. They also take strong issue with Christianity and conservative politics. The underlying theory is that the nuclear family is hypocritical, unstable and unfairly oppressive towards woman and children. Early plot lines revolve around Stan’s lack of empathy. Is it any surprise woman’s studies major Lena is portrayed as the most consistently aware, intelligent and compassionate character? Later plot lines are more surrealist, as Roger factors in more and more.
Later plot lines involve exploring Steve’s beta friends. Lena and her husband Jeff factor in more. It is a show that really comes along later on. However, let’s chop up some red-pill analysis about the show.
Red-pill Analysis: At the superficial level, this show is little more than more liberal fare seeking to expose the nuclear family as flawed and in need of change. However, the focus over the course of the seasons and presented a more balanced view.
Let’s talk about Lawrence Auster. His view of the “unprincipled exception” has merit here. His principle was that liberal autonomy theory was limited by reality. People can’t have supreme autonomy, but need their autonomy limited at some existent. They rule “Your rights end where mine begin” sums up modern liberal autonomy theory, but admits the limits of the theory. Liberals talk a big game about creating more autonomy and freeing humanity from artificial chains and allowing real humans to change the world for the better. Earlier forms of this autonomy theory were pro-free market, now they are more socialist. Go figure.
There are some main problems with the show. First, is the insistent attack on the nuclear family. Early seasons portray the nuclear family as a sham, held together only by patriarchal social shaming. While social shaming does hold families together, it is often for the benefit of wider society that depends on stable family structures as a whole. Early on, they display this family as exclusively needing that shaming. Also, their insistence on portraying the male father figure as a compassionless and self-absorbed person furthers liberal critiques of nuclear family structure. Stan is shown as a narcissistic person who only cares about his image and career.
Doubling down on stereotypes, they seek further undermine the nuclear family. The creators fails to recognize psychological issues in America, they just critique the structures that evolve from that psychology. They don’t want to go in on American psychology because that might mean dissecting liberal psychology. They just want to skim the psychology of conservative Republicans to feed their base. No real analysis here – not even some real critiques of social conservatism or the free market. Just typical downing of Republican families.
Which is an issue – while divorce is growing amongst Republican families, it still is lower than Democrats. However, the gap is closing as the politics in America are narrowing and focusing on superficialities of politics – OMG what about gay marriage?!?! That is the point, distract from the relevant and focus on the mostly irrelevant.
Let’s conclude this with some observations. Later episodes ease off the anti-family rhetoric – they seem to admit that the nuclear family is important. Of course, a gay couple raising a daughter is introduced – have to satisfy those blank-slaters.
Mothers and fathers both provide real value to children. Mothers are more likely to hug their kids, ask them to express their emotions and do for them. Fathers are more likely to just touch their kids, tell them how to help themselves and teach them to help themselves. A mother’s approach is the approach for a young infant and child, but as a kid grows up, the father becomes more important.
I remember reading an article about church attending habits of teenagers who become young adults. The most important fact - whether the father went to church regularly. That decides whether the kids will be regular attenders. The most affected gender? It’s women.
That is all.
