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On float planes and problem hair.
Jul. 30th, 2015 01:46 amThe odd thing about all of this mess is that at some point, John is huddled around the fire complaining bitterly about what a fool he was for wanting a Mercedes the week before when merely seeing the next sunrise would be better for him. While this is a normal reaction given the stressful circumstances, it seems to me that the experience taught him something of the wrong thing. If I'm reading things right, it's pretty obvious that his experience left him with the impression that everyone needed to have things put into perspective.
This is because he's not quite smart enough to realize that wanting a Mercedes at a previous point to being subjected to misery because he's still to this day convinced that his idiot brother in law is some sort of expert woodsman means absolutely nothing. There is no more logical connection to the two events than there is to Chewbacca's presence on the moon of Endor to the Deflategate scandal. Since he is a stupid clod who believes in sympathetic magic, his belief that people need to have the perspective he only thinks he gained leads us to his renewed love of his favourite "Shut up, THAT'S why" argument: the appeal to shame.
We can thus connect his hateful comment about problem hair because he thinks that he's somehow magically owed children who smile and never worry about anything and his belief that Mike is too entitled and thus has to work on Exile Farm to learn what the real world is like to his mistaken belief that he's achieved some sort of wisdom. After all, he still does want that Mercedes. They can't have their Mercedeses but he's allowed his because he deserves more. Heh. I preferred Don Draper's epiphany that he was an ad-man through and through to John's wisdom.
This is because he's not quite smart enough to realize that wanting a Mercedes at a previous point to being subjected to misery because he's still to this day convinced that his idiot brother in law is some sort of expert woodsman means absolutely nothing. There is no more logical connection to the two events than there is to Chewbacca's presence on the moon of Endor to the Deflategate scandal. Since he is a stupid clod who believes in sympathetic magic, his belief that people need to have the perspective he only thinks he gained leads us to his renewed love of his favourite "Shut up, THAT'S why" argument: the appeal to shame.
We can thus connect his hateful comment about problem hair because he thinks that he's somehow magically owed children who smile and never worry about anything and his belief that Mike is too entitled and thus has to work on Exile Farm to learn what the real world is like to his mistaken belief that he's achieved some sort of wisdom. After all, he still does want that Mercedes. They can't have their Mercedeses but he's allowed his because he deserves more. Heh. I preferred Don Draper's epiphany that he was an ad-man through and through to John's wisdom.
