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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 8 Dec 2020

      Past is not a hot girl, or an adorable child, it's some kind of strange androgynous emotionless being of blinding light Present is the most human one, but he's unsettlingly rapid-aging in real time, until at midnight Scrooge realizes he's an old man at death's door

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 8 Dec 2020

      (Owen Meany is right, of course most of us think the scariest Ghost is the one who knows what's going to happen, the inevitable consequences coming down the pike But, shit The older you get, the less scared you are of that And the more you're scared of his opposite)

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    3. Gayming the System‏ @Overlord_Mikey 8 Dec 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      I suppose you could say: The future is the ghost that scares the young, the past is the ghost that scares the old, the present* is the ghost that scares us all. *Or maybe I'm the only one disturbed by Ignorance and Want and the implication that they are always just "there".

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 8 Dec 2020
      Replying to @Overlord_Mikey

      The interesting thing to me about the story is that Scrooge's fiancée diagnoses his problem when he was young as thinking *too much* about the future His vice of greed is really born of fear That's why it's just avarice, greed for money, not gluttony -- he's not having any fun

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 8 Dec 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Overlord_Mikey

      Dickens was attacking a specific mindset in 19th-century Britain (one that's still with us today), the whole Protestant work ethic idea that saving money = virtue and the wisest, smartest, best people are "millionaires next door" who have millions in the bank they don't touch

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 8 Dec 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Overlord_Mikey

      The whole irony that if Scrooge were a "worse" person he'd be a better person If he just blew that whole fortune on booze and sex and big dinners and shit Then people would be getting paid for those things, and they'd be able to pay their rent and buy groceries

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 8 Dec 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Overlord_Mikey

      So the whole deal with why the Ghost of Christmases Yet to Come is able to fuck him up so hard is that it reveals he was *wrong*, he's *played himself* He's spent his *whole fucking life* preparing for the Future -- Past showing him the full terrible cost of that -- and *failed*

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    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 8 Dec 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Overlord_Mikey

      He never understood the basic fucking fact that children learn as their first encounter with the real world Eventually you just fucking die Then all the money you have in the bank and in title deeds and sound investments is completely worthless to you Then there's nothing

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    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 8 Dec 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Overlord_Mikey

      Future and Past tag-team him, you see The terrible truth of the Future is that you hit the end of your life and *there is no Future* Then the Past is *everything*, there's nothing but Past, no direction to look but backwards

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    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 8 Dec 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Overlord_Mikey

      Which means if you've spent your whole damn life "planning for the Future" you fucking wasted all of it Constantly giving birds in the hand for two in the bush 80 fucking years of misery and suffering "just in case" poverty came, and then you look back and you were always poor

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 8 Dec 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Overlord_Mikey

      This is, again, obvious shit that everyone ought to know as common sense But at the time, as a satire of British conventional wisdom about household finance aimed at the poor by moral scolds, it was blistering And honestly it's still a message worth repeating

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        1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 8 Dec 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Overlord_Mikey

          A more specific message than just the "Be nice to people and donate to the poor" stuff that people take away from it Like Dickens is very directly and very angrily addressing people like Dave Ramsay and other "personal finance gurus"

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        1. Karina  🌊‏ @OceanKarina 8 Dec 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Overlord_Mikey

          One of the worst sins pop culture osmosis has done is to take it, with all its biting commentary, and making it an absolutely toothless series of quotes and set pieces that boil down "pls don't be evil scwoogy uwu"

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        1. Cesar Castañon‏ @theDwarf 8 Dec 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Overlord_Mikey

          Dickens original tale is more "modern" than most modern interpretations. Then again, look no further than Scrooged the "dark and edgy 80s comedy" vertion that feels like pure whisfullfilmend without adressin ANY REAL problem "just give to bucks to the homeless"...

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