I think you and Dave C. are both people who provoke people into daring to face thoughts they try not to, by method, and I see why you therefore admire and recommend his work. You, on the other hand, are far more kind and gentle than he, so the similarities cease pretty quickly. He deliberately gets people's blood boiling in order to make them see what they hide from themselves as they lose control of their formerly restrained undercurrents of (whatever: racism, privilege, etc.) You on the other hand deliberately try to forestall those emotions, try to keep people from reacting in anger (even in your FB introduction/invitation to look at this you do that, preemptively cooling the process if possible). Interesting to note. If we were to triangulate to a third way of doing the desired outcome of making people face what people are unwilling to face, different from either you or Chappelle but in this case making them laugh (at themselves, in spite of themselves) and thus migrate towards a different pov, it would be Dick Gregory. Dude was a freakin' genius at it.
I think you and Dave C. are both people who provoke people into daring to face thoughts they try not to, by method, and I see why you therefore admire and recommend his work. You, on the other hand, are far more kind and gentle than he, so the similarities cease pretty quickly. He deliberately gets people's blood boiling in order to make them see what they hide from themselves as they lose control of their formerly restrained undercurrents of (whatever: racism, privilege, etc.) You on the other hand deliberately try to forestall those emotions, try to keep people from reacting in anger (even in your FB introduction/invitation to look at this you do that, preemptively cooling the process if possible). Interesting to note. If we were to triangulate to a third way of doing the desired outcome of making people face what people are unwilling to face, different from either you or Chappelle but in this case making them laugh (at themselves, in spite of themselves) and thus migrate towards a different pov, it would be Dick Gregory. Dude was a freakin' genius at it.
Mucho Gratias ... my bro ... and yes ... I agree with you ...on Gregory ...