I watched Ted 2. I think its important to watch the worst humanity has to offer in order to appreciate things that are good. Ted 2 is not good. In fact it is fairly racist, inane, and barely intelligible. At its core the film attempts to tackle the notion of personhood, even going so far as to invoke Dred Scott. f course this was followed by jokes about Arizona State (referred to as HPVU), crazy homophobia, and a ridiculous amount of marijuana. Overall, the movie sucked. It was another nail in what should be the Whalberg coffin, but I’m pretty sure he will be successful always. Hell, I laughed.
I wound up in a conversation today with my paramour about challenging yourself. It was about her, but of course made it about me. If I can take anything from the film its that I can recognize when people settle into bullshit. We have a capacity as humans to do incredible things. We built planes, wrote epic stories, created the internet. We also invented snapchat, made the kardashians incredibly wealthy, and, well, Justin Beiber. That is to say that we have the capacity to do nothing but useless stuff and fail to challenge ourselves whatsoever.
When you don’t push yourself you become stagnant and then you die. I’m not about that just yet, so I need to push myself.
Some Thoughts:
- One thing I learned above all else: I need to change my ring tone. Whalberg ruined it.