Articles tagged with Think/CounterThink

[Think Tank] Do You Have A Feeling?

posted by Think Tank on Friday, December 11th, 2009 at 8:00am

lee Lee:Ugh. “I Got a Feelin’,” the Black Eyed Peas, song, was nominated for the “Record of the Year” Grammy. What a joke. Though I don’t want to do it the service of even mentioning it on this site, it’s worth repeating that this is an awful, awful song. It has no redeeming quality.

angry fenzel Fenzel: TONIGHT’S THE NIGHT!!

leeLee: Not lyrical, not musical, not cultural

angry fenzel Fenzel: LET’S LIVE IT UP!!

lee Lee: If anything, it actively subtracts from music in general for being so bad

angry fenzel Fenzel: I GOT MY MONEY!!!

lee Lee: As in, it makes other songs worse. Not just Black Eyed Peas songs, but the life’s work of other musicians is made less by the existence of this song

angry fenzel Fenzel: LET’S SPEND IT UP!!!

The Musical Talmud, Think/Counter-Think Edition: “Party in the USA”

posted by lee on Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 at 7:20am

leeLee: Hey Sheely, let’s Overthink Miley Cyrus’s hit single, “Party in the USA.”

First question: is this song even worth Overthinking?

Think/Counter-Think: On the Question of Zombie Atrocities

posted by stokes on Monday, October 26th, 2009 at 7:00am

Overmurdering It

[Stokes and Fenzel kick off Halloween Week 2009 by engaging in a spirited debate about the morals of Zombie Atrocity.  Note: Spoilers for Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead follow.]

Resolved: In most zombie movies, the characters are undone when they become more zombielike (i.e. betray each other selfishly).

angry stokes Stokes:  This premise is wrong, and what’s more it’s incoherent. You say that to become zombielike is to betray    selfishly. When did a zombie ever betray anyone?

angry fenzelFenzel: Have you gone off your nut? Zombies betray people all the time! They just don’t think of it as betrayal because loyalty has become meaningless. When a parent tries to eat their kid, that’s betrayal from one perspective – and lunchtime from the other.

angry stokesStokes:  This is just typical misguided attempt by my opponent to drag zombies into a moral system that has no place for them. There’s a certain ghoulishness to the scenario you describe, sure, but – as zombie movies have told us SO many times – “She’s not your mother anymore!” Which means you aren’t her child, which means she is not betraying you. Also, let’s focus in on that other word: “selfishly.” I submit it to you that a zombie cannot behave selfishly, because a zombie does not have a sense of self.