The "Social Assassin"

            Just was watching a Curb and thought that it was worthy of a blog post.  I was watching the one where Larry gets in trouble for using the handicap stall when a disabled person was waiting to use it.  I’m a huge fan of the show, but I also thought that the show somewhat connected to the theme of this class in the sense that the whole show is based off social games.  The whole show is based around how big of a schmuck Larry David is and how he plays these little awkward games with the rest of society.  These games are just little awkward situations where he is typically competing with a friend or a stranger to prove why he is right or why they are completely wrong.  These games that Larry decides to play are funny because there is so much truth to them, and they are all little things that almost everyone has experienced at some point in there life.  For example, there is another episode where Larry David is deemed the “social assassin.”  He is given this name because of his ability to say what is on everyone’s minds, but is never actually said.  Larry is given this name because of his lack of filter in awkward social settings where he is always willing to tell the other person off if he thinks that they are in the wrong.  

As a “social assassin,” Larry enters into thousands of these games, or battles, with other people where he feels like he has to enlighten the world or show someone else why they are in the wrong with whatever it is that they are doing.  This is a game because in Larry’s mind there is always a winner and a loser because of the fact that he is too stubborn to settle for a tie or anything less.  We haven’t discussed anything like the kind of social games that Larry plays, but they are very real and we all play them on a daily basis.