Bugs Bunny isn’t your conventional trickster god - he doesn’t steal or lie; rather he inflicts on us a societal hubris. He traps us in the rules, conventions and expectations we’ve made. Forcing us to go through the niceties of the barbershop or DMV at the times most inconvenient to us. If we didn’t have these rules - if it was twelve thousand years ago and all we had was a snare and a knife, Bugs would be nothing more than a mortal rabbit. But now we have built so much and he has become a god.
bugs bunny would absolutely find SOMETHING about caveman society to exploit
Yeah there was a cartoon from 1959 about this exact topic. Bugs taught Elmer how to make a gun just so that Elmer could shoot himself:
Awfully bold of OP to assume Bugs Bunny was ever mortal.
my line of logic was “well if i put the sponge in the blender, when i turn it on the sponge will spin around and scrub the blender for me so i dont have to spend ages cleaning it”
Capitalism is so insanely evil it’s honestly kind of impressive
“if you force companies to pay their staff more than starvation wages they’ll just fire people and then those people will starve even faster and that’s just how it is and there’s literally no way to change it or fix this serious problem of people starving”
“if you force landlords to maintain their properties instead of allowing the buildings to decay around their tenants then they will just charge higher rent which will price people out of housing and then they will be homeless, this is an incontrovertible fact and is both inevitable and a morally neutral phenomenon”
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“helping people is bad, actually, and hurting them is objectively a good and positive thing 100% of the time, the world would be worse if nobody was suffering and dying for stupid, preventable reasons”
