And LOL at the rage. Get some damn reads kiddo....

In Defense of "In Defense of Incest"
a novel

Confirmed, I was actually quite pleased. (and impressed!)

Recently, someone posted a link to a couple five minute videos stating that the Earth was expanding. Not only did I and a decent number of posters watch (and rewatch) the videos, we bothered to write explanations for why the video was wrong. I personally wrote an argument based on the difference between gravitational potential energies (and solved it using real values).

Unlike the aforementioned video, the video in this thread actually presented a powerful argument, one made more impressive because it is against literally the only universal taboo in humanity.

I am more than happy to examine and debate viewpoints that someone doesn't believe.

I am slightly annoyed about how saturated this thread is with trolls. The legitimate replies to the OP (RyanB9, sockhead, and myself) are all qualified agreements with the OP's video.

Ironically, part of my argument against the OP's video was the genesis of the law is irrelevant to its utility.
Applying the argument to the thread states "the genesis of this video is irrelevant to how truthtastic it is."

A parting word for the trolls:

Seriously, stop your fallacies from ****ing your thinking and start thinking about ****ing your sister (with your phalluses, seriously).

Where are the trolls? I've done nothing but 'express qualified agreement' with the video. OP needs more of a sense of humour and less of a sense of his own import, is all.

Lol. I did find you funny. I thought that was apparent.

What do you mean agreement with the video? That's like agreeing with a song....

Now brought to you in ******vision.

Diplomatic answer: We are on page 6 of this thread with about five relevant posts, none of which disagree.

lol really? What did i expect from posting this? Trolls supporting it. Idiots flaming it. Why? I don't know. The vid is silly and pointless. Not interesting enough to troll. Not interesting enough to take seriously. The only interesting thing is the reactions. Pointless trolling on something uninteresting or panties in a bunch reaction to OP.

Since the video does not posit an argument for incest, i think the only relevant posts were made by PokerBrute.

There are no bunched panties, though quite clearly bunched panties are what you were hoping for.

Relevant to what?! By OP's own admission he has no interest in the subject. A post 'relevant' to the OP would be disussing warmup techniques for actors, right? Instead, there's no discussion, because there's apparently no disagreement that isn't entirely emotive in nature (see 11t's post).

The subject of the video is obviously not incest. Put the end at the beginning and its different. The sujbect of the vid is a man being asked to make an arguement for it, and his ensuing attempt.

How clear do I have to make it that I wasn't hoping for anything. I was bored and curious to what kind of ridic replies there would be. I posted it once on a myspace page years ago, and I recieved bizarre emails from people agreeing with it. Most, IMO, were not trolling.

The video presents a case for the obsolescence of the prohibition. So rather than being overtly for incest, the video is against being against it.

It doesn't present that case. Put it this way. If i had asked the actor to eat an oreo and pretend that it is gross. Would this present an argument that oreos are gross? Or even present an argument that this man doesn't like oreos? There is nothing that the video presents. No argument it makes. No stand it takes.

What it is, is simply a piece of cinema verita. It is actually documentary as opposed to fiction.

If the actor exceeds merely depicting a reaction, and makes a presentation likely to persuade the viewer to share that reaction, then the video tends to promote this point of view.

So the guy isn't an actor then. What? I'm beginning to suspect the reactions in this thread will be part of the same art project.

No he is an actor. But the video is a document of him attempting to make a argument for incest. And this likely makes it more real than any video blog. The pure reality is: There is a man who has been asked to make an argument for incest and does so. Just as if I had asked him to eat an oreo which would simply be a real document of a man being asked to eat an oreo and doing so. I have another video of him that is 40x better and more interesting...

Asia Argento actually did an art project like that online. She made a fictional daily vlog for one week that most assumed was real. People would comment, she would interact with the comments. The comments were a part of the project and all who commented were given writing credits.

Then the thread title "In defense of Incest" does not describe the theme of the video, but rather the intent of the character being depicted by the actor in the video. (Or something like that.)

Glad we cleared that up. Holding back the development of an artist will, of course, never do.

This thread is officially annoying, but since it is a film/acting project, I will say that I find the guy in film to be quite compelling.

It took a few seconds to figure out that he wasn't ******ed and was just speaking slowly or thoughtfully or something, but after that I was hooked. I liked listening to him. He could explain why navel lint should be used to make sweaters, and with his manor of speaking, accent, voice, etc. (just the whole package) I think I'd watch at least a few minutes of it.

The movie quality is better than a home movie, but not as good as 'good'. It isn't bad... but I don't like the way those cuts work near the end.

Thanks for posting it.

Also, I think the OP is full of **** if he is claiming that the actor is just spouting off crap that is obviously just a joke or nonsense or something.

i like OP now, well played sir

If I read The Communist Manifesto in front of a camera, the video would have "presented nothing" and "made no argument?" What if, instead of reading Marx, I just hold up the pages to the camera? Now, what if I cut up the film reel and glue an image corresponding to each page, and glue them to my scrapbook? (they sell special ones at the Obsessed Scizophrenic Emporium at the mall)
Now, what if I go back in time, pose as Marx, and hand this scrapbook to a publisher, then go forward in time and make a recording of me reading it?

What now?

EZ. You want to bang your sister. I thought we established that.

Just do it, tension gone. There is no tension with my wife, even though she is also m