Embracing your cluelessness, and doing nothing, may be your best option.
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Calm cluelessness comes to them in the form of David Cameron.
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That cluelessness, alas, is one of the fundamental conditions of parenting.
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Kaiser's cluelessness about its job fair was not a hopeful sign.
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If the media took such claims seriously, they would prove their own cluelessness.
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This reflects an amazing cluelessness of the damage this would do if realized.
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The 16-year-old is a walking cocktail of teenaged cluelessness and arrogance.
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I confess to relative cluelessness when it comes to any of those things.
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Now, the destination is Cuba, which provides a wealth of opportunities for awkward cluelessness.
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I don't blame him for his analog cluelessness—we're living in a digital age!
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Investigators say that in many cases of election fraud, cluelessness, not criminality, is to blame.
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Democrats treated the story as evidence of the Trump campaign's utter cluelessness, until he won.
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Mr. McBride, as Buck's casually vulgar sidekick, Don, plays crass cluelessness as is his custom.
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Their cluelessness is symptomatic of a problem for all insurance lines, including casualty, life and health.
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If there's one thing Game of Thrones likes to punish characters for, it's puffed-up cluelessness.
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I also made sure to watch on PBS, to avoid onscreen chyrons, thus maximizing my cluelessness.
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Sanders seems more likely to forfeit them through cluelessness about how to run a giant administrative bureaucracy.
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Even Manda, it turns out, seems to have been infected with the family curse of financial cluelessness.
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And it is tempting, and perhaps fair game, to mock the cluelessness of the young and affluent.
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In some ways this cluelessness may be a good thing: malevolence may indeed be tempered by incompetence.
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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has become the poster child for this kind of dangerous cluelessness in recent weeks.
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It's this cluelessness, out of touch-ness, and tone-deafness among Democratic elites that is rigging the game.
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Well, part of it also was his ... The cluelessness of Amazon about the union situation in New York.
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However, Tarverdyan probably didn't offer more pointed instruction to Rousey not out of calculation, but out of cluelessness.
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Patrick, his starfish best friend, ratchets that excitement up several notches and adds an extra dose of cluelessness.
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"The sheer CLUELESSNESS of this event is mind boggling," Rumman Chowdhury, a data scientist and an A.I. developer, tweeted.
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Devon wins the Fishy for playing up his surfer boy cluelessness, and very subtly prompting Ben to reveal more.
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But that answer only shines a light on Tinseltown's cluelessness about the psychological effect of some of its product.
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Zuckerberg himself was dragged in front of lawmakers in Washington and Brussels, where he faced both anger and cluelessness.
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How scenes like these ought to be read — as arch commentary or cluelessness — is especially hard to sort out.
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The owners' cluelessness in the face of a variety of public relations disasters may have finally reached its peak.
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Before I get to the economics, let's talk about one indicator of Trump's cluelessness: his remarks about federal debt.
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She did eventually find some texts — including one by Martin A. Berger — but she was dismayed at people's cluelessness.
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San Franciscans interviewed by The New York Times said they did not wish tech workers harm, but lamented their cluelessness.
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That was partly because of my cluelessness, but also because no one I knew on campus really seemed to care.
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This emphasized his cluelessness during the conversation among Juliette and her colleagues, and my high-school French wasn't sufficient either.
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Malika, for all of the cluelessness she's had on this trip, does give Khloé sound advice when it comes to Lamar.
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We should embrace our cluelessness, and be curious about sexuality, rather than being all cheesy and preachy and erotic fiction-y.
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Her team's concession that they might have been naïve about the "optics" in the Goldman Sachs matter displays the same cluelessness.
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At this show, tween and teenage comics will have fun with the older generation's dance styles, fashion sense and general cluelessness.
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But CBS as a culture has a record of cluelessness when it comes to doing the right thing on sexual harassment.
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Every time it pops up, people laugh, hit "like," and marvel both at their own age and the cluelessness of kids today.
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An inability, an unwillingness to be "spun" can suggest singularity, honesty, obstinance, cunning, even cluelessness or pigheadedness – it can be meaningfully ambiguous.
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So while gettin' that D policy is mostly just a big LOL, facepalm-worthy cluelessness is certainly an improvement over fratty misogyny.
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The senators' cluelessness meant Zuckerberg skated by with an apology for the data-sharing scandal and a vague promise to do better.
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He has poor instincts, exhibits pure cluelessness in transition, and has a penchant to crumble every time he collides with a pick.
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I have less patience with prying questioners, but cluelessness (and occasional lack of self-control) is also part of our human condition.
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Facebook suffers from "an astonishing cluelessness and moral rot in the company's top executive leadership," writes Helaine Olen in The Washington Post.
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" Petr Fiala, the head of the center-right opposition Civic Democratic Party, ridiculed Mr. Sobotka's logic, calling it an example of "cluelessness.
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In telling this story, Popstar exhibits an intimate familiarity with the absurdity and cluelessness behind much pop music marketing and image crafting.
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It is certainly powerful to literally not know what's going on; I can see why you'd want to adopt a posture of cluelessness.
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The present-day celebrities, who seem to become instant experts after their initial confessions of cluelessness, add little beyond their own boldface names.
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The episode highlights the stifling sweatbox quality of contemporary liberal discourse, but it doesn't change the depth of right-wing cluelessness on race.
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In addition to the basics, like making sure your post actually demonstrates a cluelessness about social media, the community has an expectation of respect.
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The current crisis at the border caused by Trump's policy of forced family separations is a mix of incompetence, immorality, carelessness, cluelessness and callousness.
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But there remains that problem of Mr. Hunter's unwillingness to specify — or his characters' cluelessness about — just whom they will be trying to convert.
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Many people objected to it, in part, because the announcement struck a note of privilege — or cluelessness: What country were the producers living in?
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"General cluelessness about racial dynamics will diminish any possible black support that comes from Trump's emphasis on job creation," Hochschild said in an email.
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For Daum, #MeToo is less about women coming forward with stories of sexual misconduct and potentially changing society, and more about younger feminists' cluelessness.
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What this metaphorical gentrification points to instead is dishonesty, carelessness and cluelessness on the part of the privileged when they clomp into unfamiliar territory.
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These remixed slogans and the cluelessness around why they're troubling are just one example of widespread intellectual laziness around the Black Lives Matter concept.
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Their cluelessness results from a complete denial of how Donald Trump works, fueled by a confirmation bias that seeks only to prove their negative point.
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And yet, like something out of a David Brooks wet dream, they seem to have once again one-upped themselves when it comes to cluelessness.
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The cluelessness of the people being parodied by the account is admittedly funny, but Quartz points out how that well-meaning ignorance can go wrong.
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Nor does Ms. Ziegler argue that Amber's cluelessness — she suggests that Tom's race was "a great way" to get into a good school — provokes him.
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I was just a kid then and thought nothing of laughing at Paul Hogan's knife or his cluelessness about escalators and elevators in New York.
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The scale of her fame has inevitably dislodged her underdog persona, and accusations of joke-stealing and white-girl cluelessness have dogged her for years.
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Or is he simply clueless — and is it precisely his cluelessness that is liberating for Laura, giving her the wherewithal to crawl to his side?
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When Midler boldly insisted that "this isn't about race" despite making a reference to racism is the kind of cluelessness that only comes from white privilege.
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"The first time was when I went to a fabulous party in a place I now know is Brooklyn Heights," she recalled, laughing at her cluelessness.
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Perhaps the most consequential aspect of these events is what they have revealed about the Administration's cluelessness when it comes to the everyday lives of Americans.
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Even more incredible would be the cluelessness of such an action: consider that Cohen is one of the people who could hurt the President the worst.
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But, Dr. Lawless says, making fun of her fried chicken cluelessness is just another manifestation of a political rule as old as photography: Never eat ugly.
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And no matter how sweet and kind they are, they're likely to be on the losing end of life — unless that cluelessness is trained out of them.
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Carson's cluelessness about Puerto Rico's recovery time was a bit cringeworthy, but his failure to identify this costly challenge is a much more dangerous form of ignorance.
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" The prosecutor goes on ... "Her efforts weren't driven by need or desperation, by a sense of entitlement, or at least moral cluelessness, facilitated by wealth and insularity.
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Moreover, Mr. Trump's avowed cluelessness implies that Mr. Cohen induced Ms. Daniels to sign the agreement through fraud — a lie about Mr. Trump's performance of reciprocal obligations.
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Even beneath the shiny surface of Obama-era pop feminism, dissenters took countless shots at its racial cluelessness, its lack of class-consciousness, its sometimes shallow concerns.
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There was the vapid privilege (and outright cluelessness) of the Bluth family that Arrested Development's Michael (Jason Bateman, in full straight-man mode) could never quite rein in.
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But the real emotional climax—especially as pertains to white female cluelessness in the wake of black realities—takes place in an integrated ladies room on NASA headquarters.
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Mr. Gigante, nicknamed "The Oddfather," had been known to wander Greenwich Village in a bathrobe and pajamas, mumbling incoherently, tending to a feigned image of incompetence and cluelessness.
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Farhad: Oh, for further evidence of the cluelessness of tech companies over their platforms, Amazon's website has been recommending bomb-making materials to people, a British report found.
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Jennifer Weiner Philadelphia — Last week, a hashtag called #ThingsOnlyWomenWritersHear zipped around Twitter, giving women the chance to share the condescension and the cluelessness that writing while female guarantees.
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It wasn't her voyeuristic handling of the hair attached to my body that seared this experience into my memory — that kind of cluelessness is more laughable than anything else.
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It is a career disaster now to signal your left-behind cluelessness as a basic bitch, a normie or a member of the corrupt media mainstream in any way.
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And the sheer cluelessness of skewering street style bloggers, whom the industry has by and large embraced and exploited, shows a naïveté from both the artist and the publication.
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Here, too, Shteyngart adopts a take-no-prisoners approach to satire, mocking both Barry's cluelessness and the way in which one person's memorable narrative is another's opportunity for commoditization.
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This combination of excess and cluelessness led to a bloated production that cost $6 million yet still wound up looking as though it were filmed on a shoestring budget.
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They added that Huffman's "efforts weren't driven by need or desperation, but by a sense of entitlement, or at least moral cluelessness, facilitated by wealth and insularity," they said.
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I was trying to figure out, am I just going to be picking white kids to hold them up as a kind of example of cluelessness or white privilege?
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Baker's apparent cluelessness about why Americans joined the Communist Party, what being a Communist meant and the experience of being subject to the McCarthy fever seems a bit surprising.
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Underneath the bong hits and blow jobs, director Elizabeth Wood is showing how Leah's whiteness is the real drug, begetting a kind of cluelessness and zeal that infects and intoxicates.
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Daniel played up his faux cluelessness way longer than anyone deserves, and the poor player who was just trying to help spent way too long putting up with his antics.
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In that regard Spicer is the perfect reflection of the Trump White House — its boorishness and its cluelessness, its willful ignorance and its disdain for alternative, reliable sources of facts.
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In an interview with CNN, Cuban called out Trump for his remarks about a Hispanic federal judge but said that they were a product of Trump's cluelessness and not racism.
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Reading carefully from a prepared text, he tested the themes that would one day frame his presidential campaign: American economic decline, and the weakness and cluelessness of politicians in Washington.
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Noah's new superfluity in the scheme of things, as well as his general cluelessness, was symbolized when he managed to miss out on serving as a pallbearer, replaced by Martin.
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Everything in this op-ed—from its apparent cluelessness as to what libraries actually do to its clunky, five paragraphs format-esque writing—is a priceless gift to the Ratio Gods.
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The biggest problem was the sheer cluelessness shown: The spot seemed to draw on a mish-mosh of recent and past historical events, some deadly and horrifying, and previous soda commercials.
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And then we get the ongoing contrast between Matthew and Henry's respective cluelessness and Paige, who figured out something was up ages ago and is now in deeply over her head.
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Girls star and feminist pundit Lena Dunham hit the rock bottom of elite feminist cluelessness by cavalierly dismissing the emotional and physical suffering of many women who have terminated unwanted pregnancies.
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Williams: I mean that's just an example of the dazzling class cluelessness of the Democratic Party, and here again I think Obama showed it, and Hillary Clinton showed it as well.
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There is no question that the corporatization of fashion and the careerism on social media feel pretty far from the innocence — you might say cluelessness — of New York in the 1970s.
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The announcement of a 280-character limit, at this time of all times, hints at a cluelessness the people who work at Twitter seem to have about the people who use Twitter.
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Although it made for some entertaining TV that served as a lighthearted distraction from everything else that is completely terrible right now in news and politics, does Gates' charming cluelessness really matter?
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When Tig discovers that her mother had a scandalous secret life (an affair, an unknown sibling—it's a doozy), she blows up, disgusted at Bill's cluelessness, and, by extension, at her own.
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"I learned nothing I didn't know, except some more details of the investigators' cluelessness and shoddiness," the author Kurt Andersen, one of the trustees who resigned, said of the inspector general's findings.
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But they also include a typical conservative cluelessness about black grievances, a performative and commercialized Americanism that parodies healthy civic life, and the toxic identity politics that Donald Trump is constantly encouraging.
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It's a painful process full of fear, anguish, and complete and utter cluelessness as to whether or not you made the right decision, but in the end, you know it's good for you.
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This week, sports heirs James Dolan of the Knicks and the Wilpon family, owners of the Mets, have reminded us that even great bags of money cannot paper over bad temperament and cluelessness.
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She applauds the Freedom Riders of the civil rights movement for being dressed well; she then, with all the cluelessness of white feminism, wonders why young women of today can't do the same.
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This whole debacle not only demonstrated Trump's farcical and fake reputation as a deal-maker, it also exposed his cluelessness and naiveté when it came to knowledge of the actual policies being debated.
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It's just this kind of defensiveness and cluelessness that's made the Republicans a party that can't win the White House unless a maverick candidate grabs the nomination much like Trump did earlier this year.
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Such heterodox thinking can be wrapped in a bit of disingenuous cluelessness: "I'm not sure how things work here, but I was thinking…" People working in a language not their own report other perks.
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Or, perhaps, of the cluelessness with which former Starbucks CEO, billionaire Howard Schultz, a potential presidential candidate, has asserted a groundswell of grassroots support for status-quo health care and cuts to Social Security.
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In fact, I can hardly wait until I'm done writing this so I can keep from driving myself crazy with all the nightmare scenarios he's thrust upon us because of his ego and cluelessness.
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Trump's use of this particular nickname combines several of his worst habits: his inability to let perceived insults slide, his bullying mockery of opponents — and most of all, his general cluelessness on race issues.
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So maybe it was just easier to go into the meme bank and pull out the simplest, most familiar icon of cluelessness and smash that "post" button than it was to process even more information.
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Margo and Lucas commiserate constantly over the cluelessness of the white men who hire, fire and underpay them at will: "White people often took pride in identifying which kind of Asian I was," Lucas thinks.
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Brennan draws ample evidence of the average American voter's cluelessness from the legal scholar Ilya Somin's "Democracy and Political Ignorance" (2013), which shows that American voters have remained ignorant despite decades of rising education levels.
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As the Neil Armstrong of First Man might put it, good art often takes us out of our everyday, self-centered cluelessness, our facile assumptions about the world and about other people, and changes our perspective.
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Linton has become one of the most controversial women in Washington, a so-good-you-love-to-hate-her character created by the over-the-top brand of gauche she wears with an almost refreshing cluelessness.
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From the cluelessness of Steve Carrell's Andy in The 24-Year-Old Virgin to all the virgin jokes in the most recent season of The Bachelor, movies and TV tend to treat adult virgins as a punchline.
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With all the talk of #OscarsSoWhite, and the lack of diversity in the major acting categories -- not a single African-American was nominated -- the Oscars ceremony still showed a shocking cluelessness about what today's America looks like.
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Joan C. Williams, a law professor at the University of California, Hastings, and author of "The White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America," described in an email how the downward trends are affecting the Trump electorate.
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With Maria already regarded as his version of President George W. Bush's slow response to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, Trump's complaint confirmed that his hurricane debacle was proof of his cluelessness as well as his incompetence.
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LeFevre is a former Citigroup bond trader who got famous through his Twitter account "Goldman Sachs Elevator," a collection of biting Wall Street satirical pieces pointing out callousness and cluelessness that bankers, traders, and investors came to embrace.
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As a director, Franco does feel as if he pulls up a bit in places, especially near the end -- as if his underlying fondness for this misguided dreamer softens the problematic aspects of his self-absorption and cluelessness.
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While it's very unlikely the accountability act will pass, it's intended to illustrate the cluelessness and tone deafness of anti-abortion laws, and to force anti-choice lawmakers to reckon with the real-life consequences of abortion bans.
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Now, with less than a month until the March 246 deadline for Britain to leave the European Union, it's again aligned with most of the country, this time in its cluelessness as to what is about to happen.
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Worried that such cluelessness would ruin the experience and heighten the impact of the island's historical trauma, I decided to see the island some other time and have dinner with a friend and her family at their home instead.
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I mean how reliably Trump's outrageous behavior always reaches journalists, as government officials use the very media that he demonizes to expose his malfeasance, ridicule his cluelessness, warn Americans about his intentions and head him off at the pass.
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The moments where their BFF relationship is at its ugliest — which the show confronts in moments like one where Maya shows her cluelessness about Anna's home life — work because of how loving Anna and Maya's relationship can be at its peak.
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Trump's cluelessness about what he needed to do in that moment -- and his stubborn refusal to acknowledge that, maybe just maybe, he hadn't handled it the right way, left a giant gaping leadership hole in the country and the party.
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The outstanding Claes Bang stars as Christian, a curator whose cluelessness leads him into some outlandishly rough spots, with Elisabeth Moss in a too-short but brilliant part as an American journalist who won't let him get away with his shenanigans.
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Then someone suggests going out to see a movie, some others murmur in agreement, and you just know you're in for another two hours of indecision and cluelessness until it gets too late and everyone just decides to go home.
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As war clouds gathered over Europe, he prominently supported the America First movement that opposed United States intervention in World War II. He had led the Olympic committee since 1952 and personified the Old World cluelessness that troubled the young athletes.
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The outstanding Claes Bang stars as Christian, a curator whose cluelessness leads him into some outlandishly rough spots, with Elisabeth Moss in a too-short but brilliant part as an American journalist who isn't letting him get away with his shenanigans.
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Mr. Ulrich recalled that Mr. Kasich had eaten pizza with a fork and a knife — a moment of cluelessness routinely displayed by politicians visiting the city — in Mr. Ulrich's district when he visited New York during the Republican presidential primary campaign.
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Other un-smart stunts came back to me: No computer will ever amass enough mainframe cluelessness to cut a big patch from the pair of bluejeans that it is mending rather than from the old bluejeans that it uses for patches.
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I plan to mark the inauguration and his four years in office — that is, if he's not impeached, which is completely possible given his hubris and cluelessness — by witnessing the ceremony and practicing being a radical human being with an untied tongue.
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But it can feel loose and free-associative in some ways, and Moore's injection of his own persona into his films — especially the smug snark of his commentary and the affected cluelessness he uses as an interview technique — can get old very quickly.
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In "White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America," due out in May from Harvard Business Review Press, Joan C. Williams argues that white workers' resentment of the safety net should not be surprising: They get next to no benefit from it.
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These senior security officials display a startling cluelessness about how things look outside the fishbowl of D.C., but their actions embolden regimes opposed to America's interests overseas, and here at home as foreign secret agents strive to confound Strzok's former colleagues in counterintelligence.
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It is a habit that he apparently believes keeps him in touch with his middle-class roots—which serves as a perfect, if inadvertent, example of how de Blasio's own cluelessness and the press's venom combine to ratchet up his reputation for self-righteous victimhood.
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Finally, if you want to see an act of utter cluelessness given what's going on in our country, look at how Boeing sent more than $1 billion of dividend checks to its shareholders three weeks ago, as the coronavirus crisis and corporate stimulus requests were both metastasizing.
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On the eve of a spectacular parade in Beijing on October 1st, when tanks and nuclear missiles will trundle past President Xi Jinping to mark 70 years of the People's Republic, it is worth pondering the domestic success of China's propaganda apparatus, and its external cluelessness.
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Some mothers in Brooklyn said they were thinking about a transcontinental hand-holding — palms clutched from Cobble Hill to Santa Monica — but actions like these are as likely to invite accusations of liberal cluelessness as they are to change minds about the deportation of undocumented immigrants.
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That line shows the kind of swagger you need to be a good rapper, but paired with her own proven predilection for cluelessness, as well as the misguided belief in her own pure, unique pathway into this industry, it suggests she still doesn't have one up on Azalea.
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Once again, my cluelessness about what could and couldn't fly on Russian TV led me to pitch something that, by any logic, shouldn't have even made it to pilot: a series set entirely in Britain, with half the dialogue in English and major parts written for British guest stars.
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Part of the reason for this cluelessness is a serious lack of accurate, holistic portrayals of queerness in popular media, especially TV.Most of the shows that portray LGBT characters, like Modern Family, The Fosters, and even Orange Is the New Black are rooted in heteronormative family structures or simplistic relationship models.
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Whether this stems from Trump's corrupt financial relationships, a natural affinity for authoritarian leaders, or just some kind of all-around cluelessness, it's a reminder that having Trump rather than some generic Republican in office does make a difference, even though Trump backs generic Republican policies 99 percent of the time.
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But it can also be illuminating and charming: There is a certain lit-from-within quality that comes over the faces of women over 50 when they recall their early days of motherhood, a kind of fond nostalgia for their own cluelessness, often accompanied by a willingness to divulge anything.
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As William lay dying — the putrefaction of his insides probably sped by his violent laughter when Agent Aderholt, exhibiting well-meaning American cluelessness, asked if he wanted a Coke — he coughed up, in his delirium, one tiny bit of information to add to Stan and Dennis's hazy picture of the Jenningses.
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He leads a church that spent the prior decade embroiled in a grisly sex abuse scandal, occupies an office often regarded as a medieval relic, and operates in a media environment in which traditional religion generally, and Roman Catholicism especially, are often covered with a mix of cluelessness and malice.
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The administration's cluelessness about how working people might see this cynical play for the rich was confirmed a day later when Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and his wife, Louise Linton, were photographed with a sheet of freshly printed one-dollar bills with his signature, smirking like a couple of Disney villains.
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As season three goes on, the idea of cluelessness, that the consequences of our actions are so manifold and unpredictable and impossible to account for — a constant concern in contemporary ethics raised by writers like James Lenman and Hilary Greaves — also gains force as a critique of highly demanding moral theories.
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If I have done so now, here in the parking lot of Stop & Shop,May I smile with self-compassion,And not curse my cluelessness,As the cars where I live are all Subarus,And all the same model, and all the same "jasmine green,"A bewildering forest of Foresters.
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As season three goes on, the idea of cluelessness, that the consequences of our actions are so manifold and unpredictable and impossible to account for — a constant concern in contemporary ethics raised by writers like James Lenman and Hilary Greaves — also gains force as a critique of highly demanding moral theories.
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At times, Wolfhard doesn't quite seem to know what to do with himself, perhaps because the writing asks Mike to take on whole new levels of cluelessness regarding the state of his new, hot-and-steamy relationship with El. But Brown remains astoundingly good at everything she's asked to do.
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"White Privilege II" is a lot to deal with and somehow not nearly enough, but the alternative, rappers like Iggy Azalea, who seem crystalline in their cluelessness to the racial machinations of the world around them, continuing to subvert black artistry in black spaces without addressing black pain or black death, is untenable.
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This is a very technical paper (this podcast presents a more accessible version), but Greaves does a great job of explaining cases where this kind of cluelessness is fine (where we can just make our best guess as to which action will work out best) and in which cases it's really, really troubling.
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Hers is a protracted self-destruction, remarkable both for its mundanity (the unnamed protagonist narrates her days so that they almost seem like any lazy New Yorker's, full of takeout and TV, and little alarm) and for the cluelessness of the few people who remain in her life — most significantly her (hilarious, terrifying) psychiatrist.
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Last summer, he read four non-fiction books on topics ranging from machine learning to foreign affairs: 'The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements,' by Eric Hoffer; 'Machine Learning for Dummies,' by John Paul Mueller and Luca Massaron; 'The White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America,' by Joan Williams; and 'Mr.
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No matter how far "Veep" goes in its portrayals of venality, ambition and general cluelessness — in Season 6, Selina, shopping for a legacy, turns an election-monitoring gig into a bribe-a-thon to raise money for her presidential library — its characters acknowledge, at least in passing, that there are rules and norms they are violating.
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These works outlined the more granular themes that would recur in the major texts of the late 1970s and beyond: the ubiquitous heat and inscrutable jungle terrain; the ineptitude of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, our South Vietnamese allies; the craven cluelessness of officers and rear-guard "pogues"; the profane black humor of grunts' language.
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Although England's cluelessness as panic set in late on meant it wasn't apparent in the previous tie, Iceland faded in the final 20 minutes against both Hungary and Austria (the late winner came very much against the run of play as Austria committed the whole team forward in search of the goal that would have kept them in the tournament).
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In his classic 2000 paper "Consequentialism and Cluelessness," the University of Sheffield's James Lenman explained the issue using the case of a German bandit in the year 100 BCE attempting to decide whether to kill a distant ancestor of — you guessed it — Adolf Hitler: Imagine we are in what is now southern Germany a hundred years before the birth of Jesus.
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This spin on the 1969 Marvel comic, the first of the franchise by the director James Gunn, introduces us to a ragtag team of intergalactic criminals-turned-heroes: A brawny Chris Pratt leads as Peter Quill (with a hint of the cluelessness that makes his role as Andy on "Parks and Recreation" so endearing), alongside a fiery Zoe Saldana as a tough Amazon who goes by Gamora.
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