The whole thing was staged to get the Oscars viewers and additional press and social media coverage following the show the whole affair shows how shoddy our culture has become.(the feminist and Black women of Wakanda view) Jada Pinkett Smith should have been the person to slap Rock as she was the object of the joke, not her husband, so the whole demonstration was sexist.
Koans are absolutely not a thought exercise. Rucker, The Liberty Daily, and White conservative view) 'sound', 'one', 'hand' and 'clapping' are all mentally imputed qualities that are not a part of the nature of the objects they appear to characterize.
Next year, they could have the participants have spontaneous sex on stage and give us the complete complement that is the stock-in-trade of this industry: sex and violence.Īfter the Smith/Rock kerfuffle, what a passel of tweets and commentary will come this morning:
#THE SOUND OF ONE HAND CLAPPING HOW TO#
Now, I thought, the Oscars have figured out how to make this long, boring show interesting: have the participants assault each other. SALINGER: 'THE SOUND OF ONE HAND CLAPPING' TOM DAVIS Since the publication of 'Teddy' in 1953, certain aspects of Zen Buddhism have become standard fixtures in the stories of J. I learned last night while catching up on the news that Will Smith slapped Chris Rock on the stage of the 94th Academy Awards ceremony, aka the Oscars, for making a joke about Smith’s wife.