Thursday, December 17, 2009

Freudian slip.

For those of you not familiar with the Freudian slip, it's simply when someone is talking and they say something but meant to say something else. For instance if you're speaking about your birthday last year and about how your mother made you a cake you didn't like and you say "i hate my mother--i mean i hate the cake". What Freud says about this though, is that the slip isn't just an accident but actually, more truthful. Freud says every time we slip, it reveals an unconscious desire. So you saying you hate your mother, may be slightly true. You don't have to hate your mother so much that you want her dead, but the fact that she made you a cake you didnt like may spark an unconscious "screw you".
Where this leads me to: I was up in salt lake trying to find somewhere to eat. Unluckily for me, the Twilight Concert series was in town and there were hoards of zoobies all over downtown SLC. Greg, wearing his Mao Zedong t-shirt and I..probably wearing all black. We took a step outside of the restaurant and a boy went walking by with a Che Guevara t-shirt. Greg just said "ooooh Che Guevara!" and the kid answered back "yeah why do you have a Mao shirt on?" to which Greg responded with the usual duh, he's one of the greatest leaders of all time. The boy said "I hate Che-- I mean Mao". To all familiar with the Freudian slip, this is hilarious. When the boy realized he had touched on the Real, he yelled back as he walked off "Mao killed people!".........and Che did what....? Haha! This my friends is what we refer to as a "hipster". Someone who wears the Che shirt and has no idea who the hell Che was or what he did.
VIVA LA REVOLUCION!

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