Another one of those once-quarterly, now semi-annually, polls to gauge the effectiveness of the DUmpster; how well the DUmpster's doing in providing a public service for the Good of Humanity.
Why do you watch the primitives on Skins's island?
There seems to be three principal reasons one might come to the DUmpster:
(a) for amusement and entertainment, as if reading the comics in the daily newspaper; they're such funny little creatures, the primitives;
(b) for oppositional research; to find out what the other side's up to, their attitudes and strategies; or
(c) for anthropological enlightenment.
The first one is probably overwhelmingly the most popular reason decent and civilized people flock to the DUmpster, in pursuit of some humor and laughs.
The second one seems much less important than it used to be, as over time it's become obvious that professional Democrats and liberals don't take the primitives seriously; in fact, they probably laugh at the antics on Skins's island as much as we do.
The third one is rather esoteric, but it's the main reason franksolich has
always watched the primitives, given my interest in anthropology and sociology. Skins's island is a self-segregated community remote from any intercourse with the real world, uninfluenced and uncontaminated by other cultures.
The hierarchies, the castes, the fetishes, the taboos, the rituals and ceremonies, the practices, the gods and icons, of the primitives are fascinating, utterly intriguing, as if seeing a society from another universe.
And so the question. Decent and civilized people in ever-increasing numbers flock to the DUmpster to read all about Skins's island and the primitives. There's lots and lots of other sites watching the primitives, but as far as is known, the DUmpster boasts the largest collection of
primitivia on the internet.
