DWQA QuestionsCategory: Human CorruptionSo-called “slap-stick” comedy also comes across as a celebration of human incompetence. The list is too long to even categorize but includes such classics as The Keystone Cops, The Three Stooges, Get Smart, Gilligan’s Island, The Naked Gun, and even the famous Pink Panther movies with Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau. What is Creator’s perspective of “slap-stick” comedy and its celebration of incompetence?
Nicola Staff asked 2 years ago
This again is a good demonstration of the contrast between the divine realm and the physical plane and how beings view one another and themselves engaged in new endeavors when they are on a learning curve still. The light beings will see at once variable performance as a function of experience as well as inner capability. Because no two souls are alike, the idea of a contest has little meaning. The idea of competition and making a contest of everything is an extraterrestrial perspective and has been imposed on your culture again and again and again all through human history, and thus it seems quite natural because everyone has grown up where contests are routine in the classroom, on athletic fields, even in art and music where there are festivals that are judged by a panel of experienced individuals who will rank the contestants and declare winners and, of course, losers. These are largely with little meaning other than for the egos and as a kind of reward for hard work, in putting in many hours of practice, as well as the stroking of the ego which often for young people is very exciting because they have little life experience to see it is basically a quite temporary circumstance with fleeting benefits at best. No one truly cares who won last year's band competition, because after a time the very meaning of it becomes impossible to measure, as everyone has moved on, and that construct that was present at a particular day and time, in comparison to others, is an arbitrary assessment to begin with, a judgment of something that is quite ephemeral and cannot be maintained, in any event. If you are a winner at anything, it will only be for a certain length of time. Someone will come along and capture your crown if you decide to compete again. Champions can maintain that status for a while but eventually will have to cede it to others who are younger, stronger, more talented, and so on. So, in the context of this endless competition, competence takes on a special importance it does not truly deserve, other than minimal competence so things are seen to which are necessary for smooth functioning of society, especially when one is paid for their labor or services and there needs to be attention to detail, meeting deadlines, covering their duties, to be on the job and attending to things when that could cause the operation of an organization to falter, or even grind to a halt, if they are absent without permission and there is a hole where the assembly line can't keep going, or an office becomes chaotic, customers grow impatient and leave in disgust if the wait is too long, and on and on. The various things that happen which will be attributed to incompetence, are vexing and often a source of friction and overall dissatisfaction with life in being a part of such timewasting and frustrating inefficiency. It is not good for morale, it does not reward the individual who often will be thwarted to not do their best if they have to depend on others who are less competent in keeping up their end of things, and this will take a toll on the whole of an enterprise. This is why engineered incompetence is so effective a tool to reduce efficiency, productivity, and eventually cause the collapse of societies, so it is not a laughing matter at all but serious business and can rise to the level of a life and death issue.