Rate my thesis on Family Guy's (((Cultural Marxism))) - Leading our country to sharia law!

[Chris did nothing wrong]

Before I begin analyzing anything about Family Guy, I wanted to share that Seth McFarlane conveniently avoided his flight on 9/11 due to hangover:

That seems reasonable enough, right? Honestly, though, despite his popularity, I never really did anything real research on him. I never actually thought about him. Where did he come from? How did he end up making something as big as Family Guy?

Digging into his history, I was surprised to see that he was an animator and writer for Cow and Chicken, Johnny Bravo, Dexter’s Laboratory, and many more classic and popular TV shows:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_MacFarlane

I kept digging deeper. He went to the Rhode Island School of Design, one of the best design schools in the United States. Still, it was really, really hard to dig deeper than that. I could not find any information on how he was actually ‘discovered’, other than he went to a good school and he came from a wealth family.

So, all I can gather is that he grew up in a rich family, and he went to a rich school, and he worked hard, and he somehow got discovered, and now he’s famous. Oh, and he, avoided 9/11. Oh, and he’s a gay rights activist. That was noted several times in many articles.

Anyway, Family Guy has its funny moments, but when you really sit back and analyze it, there are some disturbing messages spread in the majority of the shows, and I wanted to discuss that in this post. This post may not be profound, but I feel the majority do not really think about the things they are watching. Humor can be a form of brainwashing - a way to normalize certain extremes.

I find it interesting that feminists speak out about a lot of things, but they never speak out against TV shows that degrade women consistently. I wanted to start with women because of all the current celebrity scandals going on right now regarding the abuse of women.

In the show, women are painted as consistently unintelligent and only valuable if beautiful. Lois sometimes breaks the mold, but never too much.

*For one, they idealize abortion consistently:

This show paints Lois as the “progressive liberal” – she is intelligent enough that many may be influenced by her views. In contrast, Peter is usually the stupid one, so Lois seems like the voice of reason. They use Lois to promote a certain feminist ideal. The writers do not seem to think women can think profoundly, but they sure tell women what to think.

*They degrade motherhood:

In one episode, Lois is changing Stewie’s diaper, and he is cussing her out. He says something along the lines of, “You’re proud of this? This is what you do with your life?” Lois’s maternal role is seen as lowly.

I can’t find that particular video now, but there are many episodes where Lois’s role as a housewife is degraded. I mean, much of the show has been centered around Stewie wanting to kill Lois simply because she is his mom.

*They Normalize Abuse of Women

This happens much in the show, but what greater example than how they treat Meg? Meg is consistently emotionally abused. In fact, every single episode seems to have at least one attack on Meg.

Whenever I watch shows centered around Meg, I truly grow saddened. She is shown as unworthy because she is not good looking (mostly that’s it).

There is so much more here, but the point is that it is all shown with humor. Seth McFarlane is sure concerned about LGBT equality, but he does not seem to care about how his TV show degrades women.

Let’s not forget Quagmire. His entire character centers around how he drugs and even rapes women. Where is the feminist outrage? Here is a scene where he drugs and rapes a woman:

How funny!

But Seth McFarlane is so outraged by Harvey Weinstein:

http://ew.com/tv/2017/10/11/seth-macfarlane-harvey-weinstein-jessica-barth/

Does anybody else see the contradiction? His entire TV show is devoted to degrading and mocking woman, yet he is just so emotional about Harvey Weinstein. If degrading women is done through humor, it’s ok, right?

Family Guy hates Christianity. There are numerous episodes mocking Christianity. Whatever your religious beliefs, I feel it is important that anybody asks, why? Sure, they have the occasional quip about Islam, but there are not entire episodes devoted to the absurdity of Islam.

Here is an episode that mocks Jesus’s birth:

Here is in episode where they promote Richard Dawkin’s “God Delusion.”

Remember just how popular this show is, and how easily manipulated people by celebrity endorsements.

Stay away from the church. In the battle over science vs. religion, science offers credible evidence for all the serious claims it makes. The church says, “Oh, it’s right here in this book, see? The one written by people who thought the sun was magic?” I for one would like to see some proof that there is a God. And if you say, “a baby’s smile,” I’m going to kick you right in the stomach. The 'Family' guy commences to Harvard, Entertainment Weekly, 13 June 2006.

Even if you dismiss Christianity and religion, there is no doubt that Family Guy centers around extremism. It is my view that we become desensitized to extremism through comedy. I have written much about this in other posts (I linked at the bottom of this post).

The entire show centers around extremes in moral behavior. Interestingly, here is a clip where Peter explains that people are idiots if they take their values from tv shows in the first place:

While I agree with this clip to an extent, it is manipulative. Yes, parents are absolutely responsible for what their children watch, but this clip is undermining the fact that television has a huge influence on adult minds as well.

Seth McFarlane can implant all of his political views through extreme humor, yet at the same time, he criticizes anybody who might be manipulated by the views of his show in the first place. It just seems like a complete paradox.

It’s his way of justifying what he does, I suppose.

Either way, the show consistently paints morals as useless. I’m not even sure what clip to use for this. What is “good” and what is “bad” on Family Guy? If it gets a laugh, it seems to be okay.

“If something is shocking without being funny, it is hard to justify.” – Seth McFarlane

"Religion notoriously claims that they invented morality, they didn't. Morality exists in animals, ya know.” Really?

Like many popular cartoons, nihilism is often promoted on Family Guy. Brian is an atheist, and he consistently promotes the view that nothing happens when we die:

We should “live in the moment” and not concern ourselves with anything else, right?

Brian seems to be a direct reflection of Seth – perhaps his alter ego.

The entire concept of humor in Family Guy centers around humiliation. As mentioned earlier, Meg is consistently abused and humiliated.

Here is the best of bullying Meg Griffin, seasons 1-6:

Besides Meg, every episode is centered around humiliating or degrading somebody or something. Here is a scene where Peter gets raped:

This is the tv show this generation and the upcoming generation are “growing up” with – the normalization of everything.

Like the Simpsons, Family Guy has been known to predict some strange, "coincidental" events.

Supposedly it predicted the Boston Marathon incident and Robin William’s death:

Perhaps children should not be watching this show, but should adults be watching it either? The entire show seems to be focused on creating the most extreme situation and getting us to laugh at it.

There is no subject that seems to be off limits in Family Guy. Ultimately, desensitization is normalization.

What is the next stage in humor? Can it become anymore depraved?

Maybe Seth McFarlane is innocent, and he is not purposely promoting anything. However, I highly doubt that. Even if he is not, somebody helped him and his show rise to insane popularity. The question is, as always, what are they trying to promote?

Again, this essay is nothing profound, and that’s the problem. Because this type of humor is so normalized, nobody stops and thinks about it.

Until you realize how easily it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else's game.” ― Evita Ochel

 

[Yellow Shirt Guy]

This is the grade I'd give it.

 

[AtrocityVoyeur]

I came out of "retirement" specifically to commend you on your analysis. You put a lot of work (schizoid, autistic) work into that post and I recommend you continue along these lines. To wit, I wonder if you can find any proof that McFarlane studied liberal or Marxist ideas in college. I agree with you there's something weirdly culturally monolithic about his output (what's up with the fucking gender theory on his stupid space show?)

 

[Chris did nothing wrong]

(what's up with the fucking gender theory on his stupid space show?)

Do you mean Rick and Morty? Is that a MacFarlane cartoon as well?

 

[AtrocityVoyeur]

Do you mean Rick and Morty? Is that a MacFarlane cartoon as well?

No, R&M is Dan Harmon's abortion. MacFarlane has a show called "The Orville", it's a pie-eyed attempt to reboot Star Trek Voyager, and it's ridiculously, hopelessly liberal.

 

[Black Waltz]

tl;dr

 

[Boxy Brown]

lol

 

[Y2K Baby]

You've officially become one of my favorite posters.

 

[Muncie Anderson]

So, Seth MacFarlane is another Hollywood liberal atheist and pro-gay rights activist who also puts jokes about rape, abusing women and Christianity into his flagship TV show. Got it.

 

[Y2K Baby]

rape, abusing women

Good, haha.

 

[KimCoppolaAficionado]

Even if this is a joke, you should feel bad for your autistic behavior. Kill yourself., you retarded triple nigger.

 

[Shokew]

Thanks for pointing out why I hate this show so goddamn much, m8. That, however, is as far as I can go on credit, as you're just preaching the choir at this point.

 

[Y2K Baby]

Even if this is a joke, you should feel bad for your autistic behavior. Kill yourself., you exceptional triple nigger.

Yeah, if this was just copy-pasted, that's truly enough for him to kill himself. Die, shitposters, die.

 

[Y2K Baby]

Thanks for pointing out why I hate this show so goddamn much, m8. That, however, is as far as I can go on credit, as you're just preaching the choir at this point.

Silly, autistic Shokew!

 

[Panty Shroom]

Valiant effort, but I think you're looking a bit further into it than necessary. Macfarlane is a priviledged rich kid who uses his mediocre cartoons as a soap box for his political opinions with some gross-out humor thrown in. And pop culture references that don't give a shit if you're too young or not American to recognise them.

I don't really believe there's any conspiracy surrounding it, it's just a overly-ripe turd that Fox should have binned years ago.

 

[Medicated]

Valiant effort, but I think you're looking a bit further into it than necessary. Macfarlane is a priviledged rich kid who uses his mediocre cartoons as a soap box for his political opinions with some gross-out humor thrown in. And pop culture references that don't give a shit if you're too young or not American to recognise them.

I don't really believe there's any conspiracy surrounding it, it's just a overly-ripe turd that Fox should have binned years ago.

I agree. While I think McFarlane had more influence is the earlier seasons, I think its the young up and coming writers that are the true source of the storylines and themes. And we all know where cartoon comedy writers are coming from. Fancy Colleges. And what they think is supposed to be funny.

 

[OtterParty]

I think we can all see that comedy has evolved into something darker and more extreme throughout the generations. It would be simple to compare a comedy of the 50s or 60s to a comedy today and see there is a vast difference in what people find funny. Of course, everything evolves, but I think there is something more sinister, and comedy is used for a darker purpose today (or maybe it always has been). I know I have been writing a lot lately, but I guess this is what happens when people have time off – they actually have time to think (No wonder they want us constantly working!) Anyway, this time around, I want to argue that comedy is not as innocent as it seems. In fact, comedy is used as a form of control, and at the center of this control is humiliation.

For the purpose of this post, I am going to say the word tv, but I am essentially including media such as Netflix, YouTube, movies, and basically anything you watch.

Before I can get to the main point of my post, I want to ensure that all aware that there are real studies on how television and other media are used as programming - this really isn't even a conspiracy.

First, it is important to note that comedy can be used a propaganda technique. Advertisers make use of “humor and wit” all the time to get people to buy things:

http://www.csun.edu/~hflrc001/spring10/advtg-techniques.html

So, what are TV programs trying to get you to buy? It is no secret that people like to laugh, but have you ever wondered why we laugh? Laughing is largely a social cue, and we laugh 30 times as much when we are with other people.

From Web MD:

“You might assume that the 'purpose' of a laugh is to express yourself -- to let people know that you think something is funny. But according to a 2005 article published in the Quarterly Review of Biology, the primary function of laughter may not be self-expression. Instead, the purpose of a laugh could be to trigger positive feelings in other people. When you laugh, the people around you might start laughing in response. Soon, the whole group is cheerful and relaxed. Laughter can ease tension and foster a sense of group unity. This could have been particularly important for small groups of early humans.”

http://www.webmd.com/men/features/why-we-laugh#2

Think about all the television shows that use laugh tracks. Clearly, we hear the laughter and it makes us feel that a situation is more positive than it is. It eases us, and even if you hate laugh tracks, studies show that they work:

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/body-odd/we-may-hate-laugh-tracks-they-work-studies-show-f1C6436923

In fact, many studies show laughter is not even always about humor! Laughter evolved for two purposes – for a response to when something is funny, but actually, probably more largely, as a social cue. This Slate article states,

"Mimicked laughter was a way to manipulate others—sometimes for mutually beneficial purposes, sometimes for more devious reasons…Laughter, in other words, is more than just a response to humor. It’s a primal human tool, one of the building blocks of society. It taps into the core of what we are as social creatures, expressing from one person to another what often cannot be said in any other way: either that everything is in good fun—or, as in the case of omuneepo, that something is very, very wrong.”

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/features/2014/the_humor_code/why_do_humans_laugh_the_evolutionary_biology_of_laughter.html

Humor is the essence of the majority of entertainment today. It eases us. Even in serious movies, there are always quips and humorous segways, perhaps to put the audience at ease.

In fact, I’d argue that the majority of the media we watch is humorous or comedic - from simple sitcoms to talk shows to late night television. Even political shows (think Stephen Colbert) use humor to emphasize political points.

Would we even be interested in most media (movies, television, YouTube) if it did not involve humor?

Humor is used so much because it is easy to condition us when we feel relaxed and comfortable, as we attempt to take social cues from the environment around us. Many TV shows have “live” audiences so we know how to feel about certain scenarios.

On top of that, we are in a sort of state of hypnosis when we watch TV (or any media). There are thousands of studies on how media impacts our bodies and brains, but it is no secret that it puts us in a relaxed state, which is why it is the favorite pastime of many. We are taking in a lot of information when we are watching tv, but we are not necessarily processing it fully:

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/3daqaj/is-watching-tv-actually-a-good-way-to-rest-your-brain

To get to the point, this media is a type of hypnosis, where we get into a state to take in information both consciously and unconsciously. Hypnosis is real, by the way, and despite stereotypes, it exists in our daily lives:

"In truth, hypnosis is something most of us have experienced in our everyday lives. If you've ever been totally engrossed in a book or movie and lost all track of time or didn't hear someone calling your name, you were experiencing a state similar to a hypnotic one.

The hypnotized person is not sleeping or unconscious—quite the contrary. Hypnosis (most often induced by a hypnotherapist's verbal guidance, not a swinging pocket watch) creates a hyper-attentive and hyper-responsive mental state, in which the subject's subconscious mind is highly open to suggestion. "This doesn't mean you become a submissive robot when hypnotized," Ray asserts. "Studies have shown us that good hypnotic subjects are active problem solvers. While it's true that the subconscious mind is more open to suggestion during hypnosis, that doesn't mean that the subject's free will or moral judgment is turned off."*

http://news.psu.edu/story/141251/2014/03/18/research/probing-question-does-hypnosis-work

We all have the potential to be hypnotized, and the article goes on to state that some are more easily hypnotized that others.

If people view media as if it has no agenda, then are they more likely to be hypnotized by it? In other words, those who are least likely to think critically about what they watch are probably most likely to be indoctrinated by it. Even in my last post, I had to argue continuously with people that programs have messages or agendas. What I am saying is that if people were more aware when watching TV in the first place, they would probably be able to catch the messages. However, it is clear that television uses humor (and other relaxation techniques) to put us into a different state so that we can absorb messages both consciously and unconsciously. It is the perfect tool for indoctrination, and comedy plays a huge role in this indoctrination.

There are probably thousands upon thousands of articles about the evolution and transformation of comedy throughout time, so for the purpose of length, I think we can all agree that comedy today was not the same as it was even twenty or thirty years ago. Comedy is definitely more extreme today, and it seems that there is no topic that is off limits. In fact, comedians have to be more and more extreme to catch the attention of their audiences, likely because we become desensitized over time.

However, I am not going to focus on the extremism in comedy today; rather, I wanted to take note on one modern aspect of comedy that seems to be inherent in nearly all media today: humiliation.

Personal Anecdote

I grew up in an emotionally abusive home. The only thing that seemed to make my parents laugh involved the expense of others. For example, one day I came home from school. My mom told me to go pet my gerbil (who I loved). I went over happily and began to pet it, only to realize it was dead. She was laughing hysterically, and I was devastated.

Now that I am older, I realize my parents did this to me a lot, and it is probably because they have severe mental issues. I’m not surprised that they love watching comedy shows that focus on humiliation, and if it was not for my abuse, I may not see what is “off” about these.

So, humiliation techniques are a huge part of media today, and I wanted to include some here:

*Jimmy Kimmel has a lot of segments involving children, much focused on embarrassment and humiliation. Here is a segment where parents give their children terrible Christmas gifts:

*Ellen Degenerate (I’m sorry I really despise her) sets her entire show on humiliation tactics. Here is where she sets up somebody to steal, and then she humiliates them in the audience:

*Have you seen the mockumentary Religulous by Bill Maher? The entire film is about mocking religious people, and at times humiliating them. When I was younger, I thought this was funny, but there is one scene in this movie that is heartbreaking to me. He interviews some truckers about their faith, and he proceeds to mock them about it. It is so sad because, well think, religion may be all these truckers have. Why the need to humiliate somebody who is not harming anybody with their spirituality?

*Popular sitcoms today are all about humiliation. As much as I love the Office, I do realize that the show relies on relentlessly humiliating each other. In fact, I am not even going to link here because I feel as if that is the premise of the show.

*Even “Mean Tweets” are a form of self-humiliation:

I can keep going, and I want you to add anything to the comments I have missed. Unfortunately, I do not watch tons of TV or movies, so I probably am missing out on a lot.

To me, if you really think about humiliation as humor, it is really sad. As somebody who has been humiliated by my parents most of my life, I feel that you have to truly have a lack of empathy to be able to feel pleasure when others are in pain. Humiliate means to make somebody feel ashamed or foolish, so there is a level of pain there. By the way, I am not saying that there probably is not some harmless humiliation, but there is also humiliation that can destroy people. So, I do not want to come off as I feel that anytime we laugh at others, we are doing some great injustice, but this is where we get to the larger conspiracy.

Many believe that there are actually humiliation rituals in the media. Does anybody remember Miss Universe and her “humiliation ritual?” There are a lot of YouTube videos on this (so you may find a better one):

Even if you disagree about that specific conspiracy, there is no denying that MK Ultra abuse and programming is directly tied to ritual and humiliation tactics:

“What is ritual abuse? Ritual Abuse usually involves repeated abuse over an extended period of time. The physical abuse is severe, sometimes including torture and killing. The sexual abuse is usually painful, humiliating, intended as a means of gaining dominance over the victim. The psychological abuse is devastating and involves the use of ritual indoctrination. It includes mind control techniques which convey to the victim a profound terror of the cult members…most victims are in a state of terror, mind control and dissociation.”

http://www.pods-online.org.uk/index.php/information/articles/article-categories/explaining-dissociation-menu/144-demystifying-ritual-abuse

That is a great article by the way if you want to read more about ritual abuse.

For many victims, the abuse they experience is truly humiliating. Humiliation is about power, ultimately, so when we participate in humiliating someone, we are in a sense taking power over them. Whether we are comfortable with this thought or not, humiliation, power, and abuse are all related.

When we laugh at humiliation tactics on TV, do we feel more power over someone? Does it make us feel in control? Does it make us feel better about ourselves?

Think about KiwiFarms devoted to mocking others. I admit that I have participated in some of these in the past, but now I am much more careful. I often hear that my posts are linked to /cow/, and a few times I have viewed their comments about me. They are humiliating, and it does make me feel bad about myself. Do they feel smarter, better, and more powerful when they humiliate others on that imageboard?

This probably is harmless compared to the millions of others that mock. Of course, this mocking is not limited to KiwiFarms.

“People of WalMart” is a website devoted to taking humiliating pictures of people (usually those who are clearly impoverished) when shopping:

http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/

Again, I can go on and on with this, but the point is that humiliation is a huge part of our society, and to me, it is really about power not humor. Humor is used in combination with humiliation to twist it into a more positive experience than it really is.

I think, if nothing else, I want to people to evaluate what makes them laugh. Why are we laughing and at whose expense? On top of that, what programming are we unknowingly receiving as we laugh at others?

want to make it clear that I do not think all humor is bad, and I think there is a time and place for humor. However, I also want to show that we be being programmed through humor, specifically humiliation, whether we realize it or not.

After I wrote this post, I actually feel a little sad. Much of what I write is clearly revealing my experiences and who I am as a person. As I wrote this, I had to relive some of the humiliation in my life by my parents and others.

It is interesting to note that humiliation does not always have to involve humor by the way – humor is just a means for humiliation. When I was in my abusive relationship with my ex, he humiliated me by taking power over me.

Also, I want to note that there is a lot of gaslighting with humiliation. Whenever I tried to bring up my humiliation with my parents, they always told me I was just being “too sensitive.” We may say things to people like, “Can’t you just take a joke?”

As always, it takes me a long time to write these posts, and this post was a little emotional for me, so please be gentle. Of course, we may not always agree on everything, but I’d love to hear your thoughts!

Thanks for pointing out why I hate this show so goddamn much, m8. That, however, is as far as I can go on credit, as you're just preaching the choir at this point.

nigger please

 

[starfiresofparadice]

I cannot say that I believe the creator of this TV show has a specific agenda. Humanity faces a dilemma as we struggle with what it means to be alive in a world where God is passing with the older generations. Those among us whom are able and driven to better ourselves seek truth and find only really fascinating math describing cause and effect with no greater intelligence to be seen anywhere. Even the truth of free-will will eventually die.

It is an existential crisis that all of Humanity faces. Friedrich Nietzche said in his 1882 collection The Joyful Pursuit of Knowledge and Understanding "God is dead".

Georg Friedrich Hegel wrote in his 1845 book Philosophische Abhandlungen "The pure concept, however, or infinity, as the abyss of nothingness in which all being sinks, must characterize the infinite pain, which previously was only in culture historically and as the feeling on which rests modern religion, the feeling that God Himself is dead, (the feeling which was uttered by Pascal, though only empirically, in his saying: Nature is such that it marks everywhere, both in and outside of man, a lost God), purely as a phase, but also as no more than just a phase, of the highest idea."

Humanity has been looking for ways to cope with our dead god for centuries now. Many who are unable to cope simply go crazy and kill because they see the lack of meaning life holds. The Las Vegas theater shooting might be a good example. 8Chan another.

Self-interest has been controlled in the past by the idea of god, and the after-life. With God dead, morals fall, and we see this in Family Guy and also it's creator, and indeed our entire millennial generation, and those to come. Even ideas of equality and value of life might eventually turn to nothing, and the illusion of free will too!

The universe is a crazy place now and quantum electro-dynamic sciences have a lot in store for our future!