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Homer Simpson's Manifesto

In the colorful world of Homer Simpson, there are many interesting opinions, but only a few core principles. The first and most admirable is devotion to family. Homer loves his wife and children, and although his value in the family is somewhat tarnished by his propensity to transform himself into a couch potato whenever convenient, he is equally loved by them. In his offbeat way, Homer tries an endless series of crazy things, from traveling with a rock group to working at a bowling alley, but ultimately he always returns to his extremely boring and totally unrewarding job as Safety Inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, because he judges being with his family and meeting their needs as more important than having an exciting job. This is not to say that he always gets along famously with them; there are a lot of rocks in the roadùespecially with his son, Bartùand Homer is generally far from reticent about expressing his eccentric and abrasive opinions. Still, at bottom, he is a lovable family guy who indulges his flights of fancy and his middle-class opinions without compromising the fabric of his family life. No one can deny that HomerÆs primary core value is family.

HomerÆs realization that he needs to stay with his job to support his family shows admirable restraint and a purposeful grounding in reality, all of which is contradicted by his Walter-Mittyesque daydreams, in which he engages in outlandish and sometimes dangerous activities such as riding a nuclear bomb. His tendency to take up and abandon an endless procession of causes and hobbies also demonstrates the somewhat flighty and easily bored side of his personality. The core value here is to pursue the interest of the momentùa predilection that gets him into a lot of trouble but also reveals his willingness to try new things, which must be labeled a virtue.

Homer does not seem to have any lofty principles with regard to perso

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