Theory of Evolution

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt2xvG6-F8E

Although Mr. Garrison’s explanation of retard monkey fish frogs is humorous, it brings up an important issue about Media literacy and how we read things based on our own subjectivity. I watch South Park all the time, and this is one of the few criticisms of our society that they point out, which is we do not like to teach/explain/advocate things that aren’t consistent with our own beliefs. Mr. Garrison doesn’t believe in evolution, and this can also come from a lack of knowledge or him just being dismissive because it doesn’t resonant with his own beliefs, but whatever it is, it goes back to one’s subjectivity. Whether or not evolution should be taught in class, and if so, which one’s is still a debate because the theory of evolution is inconsistent with the Christian view that “God created all things” and that he created “Adam and Eve” as opposed to Adam and Eve evolved from (as Mr. Garrison puts it) “the retarded offspring of five monkeys havin' buttsex with a fish-squirrel!” This crude explanation is also Mr. Garrison’s way of confirming that what he himself believes about evolution, which is that “evolution is a bunch of bull crap,” is correct and normal, therefore establishing and maintaining hegemony while promoting his ideology of evolution being “bull crap.”