My post is called The True Meaning of the SNL Weezer Sketch (and the True Meaning of Weezer, the Universe, and Everything).
Read it if you dare.
While it starts with Weezer, it ends up getting pretty deep. I mainly wanted to clear up what David Sims said about the sketch in an Atlantic article: The Saturday Night Live Sketch That Sums Up All Online Discourse.
Sims really missed the point of the skit. It's not about how people immediately escalate all debate to personal cruelty and incendiary rhetoric on the internet. My friend Kevin and I have been having this exact same Weezer debate in regular old meatspace since 2005 . . . since they released Make Believe and the awful song "Beverly Hills." The over-the-top rhetoric in the skit is totally valid because theJones and Damon are discussing the ultimate question in identity: where lies my essence? Is there such a thing as a permanent and unchanging soul? So it's fine to get all wound up. I don't want to get into it all here, but if you're a Weezer fan and you like to contemplate profound questions on the nature of character and the permanence of objects, then you might enjoy the post. I also included plenty of pictures.
More importantly, I want David Sims to read the post and offer a retraction of his theory. How do we get this post to a senior editor at the Atlantic Magazine? Sims can offer his retraction in the comments, I don't need an actual video. Otherwise, he can drink my hot blood.
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