Status Quo

Every argument
I ever hear anymore
Goes just like this one

June 8th, 2011 Arguments, Haiku, IP

14 comments to Status Quo

• gio

  June 8, 2011 at 8:17 am · Reply

  Maybe that’s because I’m french but I don’t understand this one.

• Nina

  June 8, 2011 at 8:56 am · Reply

  It’s about the “arguments” people offer to new ideas they don’t understand: they repeat the staus quo over and over again, as if the reason I think differently (about copyright, for example, or the Ramayana, or feminism, environmental issues, etc.) is because I couldn’t have possibly ever heard the dominant paradigm. An example is this comment on yesterday’s cartoon. Those with outlying ideas tend to be extremely familiar with the status quo; have examined, analyzed, studied, thought through, and eventually rejected whatever aspect of the status quo they’ve replaced with “new” ideas that frighten others. But the frightened keep arguing back with the status quo.

  Another common example of this is fundamentalist christians arguing with atheists, as if the atheists have never heard of the bible, or church, or god, or jesus. They’ve heard it; they’re steeped in it. They’ve rejected it anyway. Shocking.

• Barry Solow

  June 8, 2011 at 9:43 am · Reply

  Hmm… Mimi & Eunice seem to be embodiments of this theory:
  http://www.edge.org/conversation/the-argumentative-theory

• john

  June 9, 2011 at 4:35 am · Reply

  Off topic I’m thinking there should be a public domain symbol like there is a copyright symbol. Anyone every looked into this or tried it?

  • Joshua Judson Rosen

    June 9, 2011 at 11:35 am · Reply

    John, cf.: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

    Basically, a © with a standard diagonal strike through it. Dunno if this will work with this blog, or with your web browser, but here are some unicode renditions: Ⓒ⃥ C⃠ c⃠

• John

  June 9, 2011 at 6:48 pm · Reply

  This comic sums up an aggravation I have been unable to articulate for years. Thank you.

• Major

  June 10, 2011 at 7:10 am · Reply

  I admit that its badly done, but i still wanted to share the funney. I hope i wont get sued over This 🙂

  • Joshua Judson Rosen

    June 10, 2011 at 12:24 pm · Reply

    Ooh–that might actually make a neat video ☺

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• agentorange

  August 29, 2011 at 11:30 am · Reply

  @Nina: You rock.

  Great work, not just on this one.

• Frederic DOMON

  September 16, 2011 at 9:52 am · Reply

  @nina: translated that into French http://www.entreprisecollaborative.com/images/stories/me_394_statusquo%20fr.png

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