{"id":3608,"date":"2021-11-07T16:32:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T16:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=3608"},"modified":"2021-11-07T16:32:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T16:32:03","slug":"the-sellout-gain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2021\/11\/the-sellout-gain\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sellout &lsquo;gain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>They say \u201cpimpin\u2019 ain\u2019t easy.\u201d Well, neither is slaveholdin\u2019. Like children, dogs, dice, and overpromising politicians, and apparently prostitutes, slaves don\u2019t do what you tell them to do.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI looked on the Internet, and the therapists are all white. Standing in the forest or in front of a bookshelf, promising career and sexual fulfillment, and healthy relationships. How come you never see photos of them with their overachieving kids or fucking their partners to satisfaction? Where\u2019s the proof in the pudding?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>My father had a theory that poor people are the best drivers because they can\u2019t afford to carry car insurance and have to drive like they live, defensively. We were caught up in a slog of uninsured rust-bucket jalopies and compacts, all doing exactly fifty-five miles per hour, their trash bag windshields flapping in the wind.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Jaguar model names sound like rockets: XJ-S, XJ8, E-Type. Hondas sound like cars designed by pacifists and humanitarian diplomats. The Accord, Civic, Insight.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/22237161-the-sellout\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paul Beatty in The Sellout<\/a>, which makes me laugh to no end. It\u2019s brutal and irreverent satire and not easy to grasp at first. Definitely needs multiple passes to get it all.<\/p>\n<p>I think this book would make a tremendous animated movie or series with a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Scanner_Darkly_(film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Scanner Darkly aesthetic<\/a>. It would be the bomb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say \u201cpimpin\u2019 ain\u2019t easy.\u201d Well, neither is slaveholdin\u2019. Like children, dogs, dice, and overpromising politicians, and apparently prostitutes, slaves don\u2019t do what you tell them to do. \u201cI looked on the Internet, and the therapists are all white. Standing in the forest or in front of a bookshelf, promising career and sexual fulfillment, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3609,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608\/revisions\/3609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}