Man vs. Gorilla
Don't gaslight yourself into thinking Big Gorilla will win.
It’s the nature of any topic on TikTok, for reasons that only intermittently have anything to do with social media itself, that it is discussed as if we’re in a state of crisis. A lot of this is just how anything is discussed now, which is as reflexive and sour as any other big public discourse. It is more difficult and more persistently demanding to apply reason and nuance to these Very Pressing Debates than it is to be a reactive dipshit, but from an existential perspective, it doesn’t really make much of a difference. The worst and wrongest kinds of this discourse will lavish toxic attention on a lot of unaddressed mold/skunk issues that lie underneath some unresolved social tensions. The debateability and whataboutism applied to every goddamn topic has surfaced a lot of crabbed half-ideologies devoted to various antique and idiotic rules and hierarchies, but a lot of it is mostly just stupid, goofy fun.
I’m not online enough to know the extent to which this man vs. gorilla debate is about, but I assume it concerns itself with how long it would take me to defeat 100 gorillas. People looked at King Kong and immediately thought all gorillas were like that, but I’ve been on the carnivore diet, so I could take down 90 of them immediately with a one-two combo and a roundhouse kick. But since I’m an empath and a Pollyanna, I would reach out to the remaining 10 so we can link and build each other up. I’ll introduce them to crypto and get them off seed oils. We’re going to lock in and build something special together. I’m about the bag, not leaving a bunch of innocent creatures unconscious.
I understand that this is a monumental debate, but I’ll be posting the link to my course soon.
RIP Harambe