blog 6

I think that a central theme in the south park episode is the idea that there are sensitive topics in our everyday lives that we choose to avoid talking about. We today have topics like war, abortion or like in the southpark episode euthanasia, but it is politically incorrect to really be open about your stance. One place we can see this is in modern day political elections when, politicians are forced to be open about where they stand on these topics. Even saying just one sentence that might be slightly controversial can lead to a fallout in your reputation. The fact that these politicians speak to such a large volume of people really makes every word count. But on a small scale, people's words have the same amount of impact and when we can choose not to talk about them, we naturally don't. I think that the boys (in south park) lack of knowledge on this social norm is a satire in itself because they are unable to realize why no one wants to talk to them about it. One book that demonstrates this ideology of having to make a moral decision is Of Mice and Men. The idea in this book is that their are two best friends and one always seems to be causing unintentional problems in every community they visit forcing them to leave. Evenually it becomes apparent that the only way to fix their problems is to kill one causing the problems. The beauty of it is that he wouldn't even realize he was going to be killed.