Post by E on Jan 31, 2004 20:58:56 GMT -5
Ok, my thoughts on laissez-faire philosophy. Bear with me here, it's long, but I feel I may be on to something (if no one's brought this up before... I don't believe they have)
We know it means "to let be" or "To leave alone" philosophy. We often associate it with Jerome Squalor, since he never wanted to argue. But have you ever noticed that others in the series tend to have that view? Quite a few, actually.
1. Justice Strauss. If she is a member of the VFD, she had quite a laissez-faire philosophy when it came to Olaf's plot and general "loco parentis" when caring for the Baudelaires. And think back to the LSUA index. She's linked with that very philosophy!
2. Mr. Poe. He always seems to be waving off things or considering them to be of no importance. "Give it some time" and "You're overreacting" seems to come up a lot with him. Once again in the LSUA index he's linked to it.
3. Jerome Squalor. Of course.
4. Charles in TMM never liked to argue, remember?
5. The original VFD, Volunteers Fighting Disease. They seemed pretty laissez-faire to me. Kind of a baloons-make-everything-better mindset, if you will.
6. Phil, the guy who crushed his leg in TMM. "Oh, well"... he seemed to say that a lot.
7. Nero, definitely. He never cared much about anything. Prufrock Prep in general, actually.
8. Carmelita Spats. This one's a long shot, but I'm taking a guess at it anyway.
Cakesniffers. A famous queen a long time ago, when told her subjects had no bread, said "Then let them eat cake." The insult "cakesniffer" may have been derived from that (that very quote is mentioned in the series somewhere in TEE), as a cakesniffer is so poor that they have to sniff cakes instead of eat them. Get it? And that queen had a laissez-faire philosophy towards her subject's well-being. There you go.
9. Hector- very much so! He never ever wanted to argue with the town council, did he?
10. Madame Lulu/Olivia- largely! Remember when she noted that she didn't know what side of the schism to be on and she just gave everyone what they wanted to hear? Seems a litte laissez-faire to me.
11. That snow scouts guy. Call me crazy, but didn't he seem a little, well, permissive? He never considered a lot of things of great importance either.
What am I leading up to? Well, laissez-faire philosophy in LSUA is as follows:
laissez-faire philosophy. See moral uncertainty.
Moral uncertainty. in other words, not sure whether their motives or actions are good or bad. This can be interpreted in all the people above. Don't all the people above have a certain... quality? One that makes you wonder whether they're good or bad. A few exceptions, of course, Nero and Hector for example. LS mentions once that Mr. Poe had left them in the care of so many wicked people that he was almost wicked himself? Think about the others. Jerome. Olivia. Teetering perilously between the line of good and evil simply for lack of doing something that needed to be done to ensure justice.
moral uncertainty. See villany.
See what he's implying by this? Standing by idle when something evil is happening is kind of like being evil yourself. I wonder... a lot of the people above are known as possible VFD members. This might be linked to the VFD itself.
We know it means "to let be" or "To leave alone" philosophy. We often associate it with Jerome Squalor, since he never wanted to argue. But have you ever noticed that others in the series tend to have that view? Quite a few, actually.
1. Justice Strauss. If she is a member of the VFD, she had quite a laissez-faire philosophy when it came to Olaf's plot and general "loco parentis" when caring for the Baudelaires. And think back to the LSUA index. She's linked with that very philosophy!
2. Mr. Poe. He always seems to be waving off things or considering them to be of no importance. "Give it some time" and "You're overreacting" seems to come up a lot with him. Once again in the LSUA index he's linked to it.
3. Jerome Squalor. Of course.
4. Charles in TMM never liked to argue, remember?
5. The original VFD, Volunteers Fighting Disease. They seemed pretty laissez-faire to me. Kind of a baloons-make-everything-better mindset, if you will.
6. Phil, the guy who crushed his leg in TMM. "Oh, well"... he seemed to say that a lot.
7. Nero, definitely. He never cared much about anything. Prufrock Prep in general, actually.
8. Carmelita Spats. This one's a long shot, but I'm taking a guess at it anyway.
Cakesniffers. A famous queen a long time ago, when told her subjects had no bread, said "Then let them eat cake." The insult "cakesniffer" may have been derived from that (that very quote is mentioned in the series somewhere in TEE), as a cakesniffer is so poor that they have to sniff cakes instead of eat them. Get it? And that queen had a laissez-faire philosophy towards her subject's well-being. There you go.
9. Hector- very much so! He never ever wanted to argue with the town council, did he?
10. Madame Lulu/Olivia- largely! Remember when she noted that she didn't know what side of the schism to be on and she just gave everyone what they wanted to hear? Seems a litte laissez-faire to me.
11. That snow scouts guy. Call me crazy, but didn't he seem a little, well, permissive? He never considered a lot of things of great importance either.
What am I leading up to? Well, laissez-faire philosophy in LSUA is as follows:
laissez-faire philosophy. See moral uncertainty.
Moral uncertainty. in other words, not sure whether their motives or actions are good or bad. This can be interpreted in all the people above. Don't all the people above have a certain... quality? One that makes you wonder whether they're good or bad. A few exceptions, of course, Nero and Hector for example. LS mentions once that Mr. Poe had left them in the care of so many wicked people that he was almost wicked himself? Think about the others. Jerome. Olivia. Teetering perilously between the line of good and evil simply for lack of doing something that needed to be done to ensure justice.
moral uncertainty. See villany.
See what he's implying by this? Standing by idle when something evil is happening is kind of like being evil yourself. I wonder... a lot of the people above are known as possible VFD members. This might be linked to the VFD itself.
