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- Dec 31, 2018
I think Bob really does believe that if he says stuff he for whatever reason believes in the moment forcefully enough on Twitter it becomes literally true. The only reason this doesn't happen is because someone somewhere is refusing to believe.
His tirades against religion and Believers are so funny because he has so clearly internally constructed his entire worldview of how even things like nature operate based on some basic axiomatic shit he didn't understand in Catholic Sunday School. And his answer to every piece of contradictory evidence he's come across in his 35+ years since is to simply force it to fit that model even if that requires him to simply deny things that don't fit the model don't even exist, a position more extreme and insane than but not out of character with the motivations for the most dogmatic period of the historical Church. Bob can't even read Wikipedia to inform his "JOB" about comics not just because he's a Patirck S. Tomlinson level of moron but because it would endlessly introduce cognitive dissonance with everything he's chosen to believe before about each subject. Bob has no patience for learning, it remains an endless process, so he thinks he's found the shortcut to simply "know" things in the first place and to simply believe that what he knows is always correct. It's foolproof except for that part where you can't control everyone else, a minor issue, that the SUPERIOR FUTURE will sweep away by allowing Bob to slaughter anyone who opposes him.
Like so many of these idiots he thinks the end point of deconstruction is not reconstruction in a superior form but a permanent state where nothing is true but that which you will into reality. Deconstruction tears down everything and leaves you with nothing, anything you construct can be torn down again, but if you try and skip recognizing it as merely a process and not a worldview then you can declare everything within your purview to reconstruct. Millenia of social forces and institutions? Reject them, reconstruct them as you wish, the people who constructed them were only as human as you after all and they didn't know what you know. Those who stand in your way are just Bad People who do Bad Things to Good People. Bob doesn't even really understand the first part of this paragraph, he just knows that Good People support the nihilism of endless deconstruction while foolish Believers think life has meaning.
The irony of the superhero films he worships is that the two popular villains considered nihilists to be adapted to billion dollar glory had to be made into obvious liars (The Joker) or stripped completely of nihilism (Thanos) because the very nihilism that Bob routinely preaches to place things he likes outside of acceptable criticism is entirely unacceptable for a villain in popular culture. Bob rejects even this, a properly nihilist villain would be too much characterization for him, he thinks villains are acceptable if they simply do villainous actions and then heroes come in and do heroic actions. How does Bob know which actions are heroic and which are villainous? Thousands of years of human culture that requires endless study by the very same humans? Of course not you non-person, Bob simply knows what is Good and what is Bad, and always has because every possible action, event and even thought always fits Bob's originally adopted model.
The appropriate quote for Bob from a superhero movie is, of course, from BvS*: "I bet your parents taught you that you mean something, that you're here for a reason. My parents taught me a different lesson, dying in the gutter for no reason at all... They taught me the world only makes sense if you force it to." Would Modern Bob realize that this line is supposed to help you recognize that the goddamn Batman has lost his goddamn mind and is prepping himself to do a permanently Good Thing to a Bad Non-Person? (The next line: "You were never a god, you were never even a man.")
*I know it's from TDKR, but the context is different in BvS, Bruce's plan in TDKR is a little more elaborate than: 1. Murder Clark. 2. ??? 3.Profit Superior Future.
His tirades against religion and Believers are so funny because he has so clearly internally constructed his entire worldview of how even things like nature operate based on some basic axiomatic shit he didn't understand in Catholic Sunday School. And his answer to every piece of contradictory evidence he's come across in his 35+ years since is to simply force it to fit that model even if that requires him to simply deny things that don't fit the model don't even exist, a position more extreme and insane than but not out of character with the motivations for the most dogmatic period of the historical Church. Bob can't even read Wikipedia to inform his "JOB" about comics not just because he's a Patirck S. Tomlinson level of moron but because it would endlessly introduce cognitive dissonance with everything he's chosen to believe before about each subject. Bob has no patience for learning, it remains an endless process, so he thinks he's found the shortcut to simply "know" things in the first place and to simply believe that what he knows is always correct. It's foolproof except for that part where you can't control everyone else, a minor issue, that the SUPERIOR FUTURE will sweep away by allowing Bob to slaughter anyone who opposes him.
Like so many of these idiots he thinks the end point of deconstruction is not reconstruction in a superior form but a permanent state where nothing is true but that which you will into reality. Deconstruction tears down everything and leaves you with nothing, anything you construct can be torn down again, but if you try and skip recognizing it as merely a process and not a worldview then you can declare everything within your purview to reconstruct. Millenia of social forces and institutions? Reject them, reconstruct them as you wish, the people who constructed them were only as human as you after all and they didn't know what you know. Those who stand in your way are just Bad People who do Bad Things to Good People. Bob doesn't even really understand the first part of this paragraph, he just knows that Good People support the nihilism of endless deconstruction while foolish Believers think life has meaning.
The irony of the superhero films he worships is that the two popular villains considered nihilists to be adapted to billion dollar glory had to be made into obvious liars (The Joker) or stripped completely of nihilism (Thanos) because the very nihilism that Bob routinely preaches to place things he likes outside of acceptable criticism is entirely unacceptable for a villain in popular culture. Bob rejects even this, a properly nihilist villain would be too much characterization for him, he thinks villains are acceptable if they simply do villainous actions and then heroes come in and do heroic actions. How does Bob know which actions are heroic and which are villainous? Thousands of years of human culture that requires endless study by the very same humans? Of course not you non-person, Bob simply knows what is Good and what is Bad, and always has because every possible action, event and even thought always fits Bob's originally adopted model.
The appropriate quote for Bob from a superhero movie is, of course, from BvS*: "I bet your parents taught you that you mean something, that you're here for a reason. My parents taught me a different lesson, dying in the gutter for no reason at all... They taught me the world only makes sense if you force it to." Would Modern Bob realize that this line is supposed to help you recognize that the goddamn Batman has lost his goddamn mind and is prepping himself to do a permanently Good Thing to a Bad Non-Person? (The next line: "You were never a god, you were never even a man.")
*I know it's from TDKR, but the context is different in BvS, Bruce's plan in TDKR is a little more elaborate than: 1. Murder Clark. 2. ??? 3.
