You can throw a rock from Minnesota to the precise center of the content of North America. We’re objectively the coolest state to be from and have had an extraordinary impact.
Allow me to make this case.
Not only are we cool, from Youtube to Post-Its, we also make sticky things that animate the culture.
Minnesota Animation
I could ride my bike to the childhood homes of three cartoonists: Charles M. Schulz, Pete Docter, and Terry Gilliam.
Schulz brought us Peanuts, a cartoon about a misunderstood lovable loser named Charlie Brown and his masculine friend Peppermint Patty, which was syndicated worldwide.
Pete Docter, Creative Director for Pixar, took over Disney. 15 of the 50 highest grossing films of all time came from his studio.
Docter wrote and directed “Inside Out,” an animated film about his feelings moving from Minnesota to a strange place. His character was cast as a girl, as boys with feelings make for less comfortable viewing.
Another Minnesota animator, Terry Gilliam, created the animations for Monty Python. Gilliam’s later works about kafkaesque bureaucracies all sound like Minnesota. Perhaps no other work reflects the Minnesota of my youth more than two scenes:
Gilliam plays Arthur’s squire and horse in the scene with Dennis, the 37 year old, misgendered, repressed citizen, who lives in a self perpetuating autocracy DICTATORSHIP, whose wife insists is a classless autonomous collective.
Anyone familiar with that scene won’t be surprised to find the Minneapolis-based terrorist group formerly known as Anti-Racist Action began in Minnesota. AntiRa’s cofounder, Mic Crenshaw, set up shop in Portland after starting a gang war in the Twin Cities in the 1980’s, which made it too dangerous to live here.
The witch trial scene illustrates panic causing breakdowns in logic and due process. This film made me viscerally aware of this phenomena, and my writing centers principally on the 100 years of Minnesota Moral Panics, from Prohibition to George Floyd.
Gilliam, an absurdist outsider, brought the grossness to Monty Python and made British Comedy stick in American minds. Gilliam also brought the dark sense of human awareness called Minnesota Nice.
Minnesota NICE?
Minnesota Nice is a social virus that mutated in Minnesota in the 1950’s and has infected the entire world. The Collegeville Liturgical Experiments performed by Monks Virgil Michel and sociologist Paul Marx at St. John’s Monastery influenced Vatican II, but not before it influenced Kate Millett, the founder of Marxist Feminism.
Dr. Paul Marx went on to be known as “The Father of the Pro Life Movement” and Millett, as the woman who put “The Marxism in the Women’s Movement”, went on to spread her dark terror idea pathogens deep into the collective psyche of women everywhere.
Milett’s book “Sexual Politics” is a viscerally persuasive argument that women are victims of an oppressive male force that needs to be overthrown. Sexual Politics is classic propaganda, “The bad guys from across the river are willing to harm or neglect the needs of women and children! Let’s get ‘em.”
Unlike previous class wars, this one explicitly laid out the group “Women” and trademarked it. Men, by contrast, have a real branding problem, and are pretty good at fighting each other.
Her book “The Basement” is Millett’s imagined mind diary of torture murder victim Sylvia Likens. She successfully implanted this imagery through Women’s Studies Programs and the collective consciousness of two generations of women, worldwide.
In addition to a number of books, tv series, movies, and radio shows about “The Prairie” (1,2), we’ve also had significant impacts. All new things are good. Which is good because we make good things.
The Wangensteen Pump, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and West Law are technologies that users in their fields would say are foundational. Jawed Karim, creator of Youtube, attended Central High School in St. Paul. We made Post-It Notes. What can I say? We make sticky things in Minnesota.
Dr. Peter Jackson, Chief Science Officer for Thompson Reuters, and author of seminal book, Natural Language Processing in Web Applications, will make calculable impacts on human culture as computers make advancements in reading, writing, and interpreting human language in all forms.
Advancements in natural language processing have had computers doing everything from beating Jeopardy champs, to analyzing Bob Dylan lyrics.
Oh, did I mention Bob Dylan was from Northern Minnesota?
So was Judy Garland, star of the world-renowned Dark Side of the Moon music video.
Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, the Trashmen, Husker Du, The Replacements, Morris Day, the Time, and Prince, who just happens to be the second most famous Fentanyl death in Minnesota.
While Prince’s fentanyl death captured the emotions of Minnesotans and the world, it failed to invoke the sheer destruction which followed George Floyd’s very public fentanyl overdose. It’s difficult to say this publicly in Minnesota.
Minneapolis declared racism a citywide health emergency and Minnesota declared it a statewide health emergency shortly after. Racism is such an epidemic that Joe Snowshoe, a Black Indigenous, Person of Color (BIPOC) Minnesotan, takes the skateboard into his own hands to educate this unidentified racist idiot.
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If you see this behavior in your city in 2021, remember this article, and watch Minnesota for what’s coming next.
Post Script
Dr. Gad Saad, in his book “Parasitic Mind” lays out a set of idea-pathogens that are exploiting the human operating system. Minnesota is the epicenter of Dr. Saad’s virus, and this is more than just some blue-haired college students, this is an intentionally created and spread viral hysteria.
Dr. Tania Reynolds, author of “Man Up and Take It: Gender Bias in Moral Typecasting” discovered the exploit in the operating system.
Influential cartoonist and persuasion expert, Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, and author of “Win Bigly” and “Loserthink,” has a formula for jokes. Jokes are powerfully persuasive, and his formula may help to stop the Minnesota Moral Panics.
Mr. Adams may just prove to be the most influential cartoonist in history.
A Case for The Biophobic Marx Hysteria from Stearns County, Minnesota.
This is part II of a series on Human Grossness and the Biophobic Marx Hysteria from Stearns County, Minnesota Swamps.
This series is based on the research of Dr. Tania Reynolds, the writings of Dr. Gad Saad and 80 years of the combined independent field observations of Mallory Millett and Jewel Eldora.
From Prohibition to George Floyd, there is something in the water in Minnesota. Millett, Mosquitos and Marx.
Reference Materials:
Mallory Millett [1]
Tania Reynolds [1][2]Gad Saad Consuming Instinct ; Parasitic Mind
