Being Eric Cartman and Not Atheists: Matt Stone and Trey Parker
People wonder about the higher functions of Matt Stone and Trey Parker in wider society, not true. No one really cares about that. However, they mght wonder about the larger self-image of Stone and Parker.
And I think I might have the answer for you. Actually, let’s take a step back, firstly, Parker and Stone are creative geniuses in their ability to satirize and spoof popular culture and personalities.
They remain entirely underappreciated, in my opinion. They give an honest representation of the larger culture and, sometimes, give some honest self-commentary.
Matt Stone and Trey Parker have noted being, in the end, more like Cartman than anything in the end analysis. To wit: “‘There’s a big part of me that’s Eric Cartman. He’s both of our dark sides, [he says] the things we’d never say,’ Parker told me.’”
Parker and Stone, as I noted in an earlier piece of writing, are individuals who hate conservatives but fucking hate liberals. In this sense, they share the tacit attitude of some in the New Atheist community, looking at Dr. Sam Harris and the late Christopher Hitchens.
Parker and Stone are regular people with multiple views collapsed to one, for a creative act, to make show. They ridiculed Dr. Richard Dawkins. They ridiculed all the major religious figures. Yet, they get more responsiveness from atheists than from religious groups, apparently.
To wit: “They’ve also been attacked by every religious group possible, but never asked to back off before, even when they stabbed Jesus in the neck and made all Catholic priests pedophiles. They said despite all that the most vocal group about religion has been atheists. “We got calls from atheists friends a couple times saying, ‘What the fuck, we thought you were on our side?’ and we say, ‘We’re not on anybody’s fucking side and we’re not atheists.’”
To claim themselves as against conservatives, even moreso against liberals, to ridicule the most prominent atheist and all the most prominent mythologies and mythological stories around major religious figures is the same mentality around calling themselves Cartman in the final analysis, do you see the point here?
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