[id: two gifs of Chidi from The Good Place, wearing a shirt and tie and sitting behind a desk.
Chidi: “I grew up in Senegal so my native language is French, but I went to American school so I also speak English. And German, and Greek, and” (Chidi crosses his fingers) “Latin, just in case it ever comes back.”
[a gifset of Chidi Anagonye from The Good Place. Chidi is a black man with black rectangular glasses.
first gif: Chidi, sitting at a kitchen table with a soft-boiled egg in front of him: “I love you too, egg!”
2nd: Chidi and Michael talking outside. Chidi gestures with his hands as he speaks, “My soulmate will be books.”
3rd: Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani, and Jason all sitting up from lying down in a railway track. Chidi: “That was so scary so many different times, I hated that!”
4th: Tahani and Chidi sitting at a restaurant table together. Tahani: “Do you like France as much as I do?” Chidi: “Well, they enslaved my country for 300 years so, no.”
5th: Chidi is outside in front of some palm trees, holding a large rolled-up map. Chidi: “I have what the doctors call ‘directional insanity’. I once got lost on as escalator.”
6th: Chidi is sitting at a table inside, reading a textbook. Chidi: “When I’m really upset, concentrating on a table of contents helps calm me down.”
7th: Chidi is sitting outside, gesturing with his arms. Eleanor is sitting nearby. Chidi: “You’re just like those childhood bullies who said I would never get tenure.”
8th: Chidi is outside on a busy street, wearing sunglasses and looking very stressed. he is being supported by Jason, and Elenor is opposite. Chidi: “I’ve never been more stressed out in my entire life.”
[Caption: Four gifs of Chidi from The Good Place.
First: Chidi has a horrified look on his face and there’s text that reads, “(existential crisis)”
Second: Chidi says, “I’m going to… start crying.”
Third: Chidi says, “I’m scared of everything.”
Fourth: Chidi says, “Oh, wow. I’ve never been happy.”]
[id: 6 cat pictures. pic 1 is of a fluffy orange cat, sitting in a doorway looking up shocked. a possum is behind it. the cat is labelled “chidi”, the possum is “the desire to use almond milk in his coffee”
pic 2 is a grey striped cat desperately trying to put it’s face in a bowl. a human hand is pushing the cat back by the head, but it’s still leaning forward into it, making its eyes look huge.
the cat is “chidi” and the bowl is labelled “almond milk”.
pic 3 is a light grey cat sitting next to the edge of a sink, labelled “chidi”, next to a carton of milk, labelled “almond milk”. the cat is making a really intense facial expression, and scrunching up it’s face like it’s angry or sick
pic 4 is a very blurry picture of a cat, it’s eyes are closed and baring it’s teeth, as if crying out or hissing. it’s labelled “chidi after drinking the almond milk”
pic 5 is a very fluffy cat lying down on it’s back, it’s wide eyes open as if in shock, as someone is vacuuming it’s tummy. the cat is “chidi” the vacuum head is “almond milk related guilt”
pic 6 is a grey cat looking sad and hunched over, with a human hand giving it the middle finger. the cat is labelled “chidi drinking the almond milk”, the hand is “also chidi”]
[Image description: Photos of a guy with an impressive moustache and a guy in a baseball cap yelling at each other. I don’t recognise them and so cannot be more specific.
Moustache: When Chidi tells that guy the truth about his boots to remain ethical, he’s breaking the most foundational aspect of Kantian ethics by using him as a means to an end.
Baseball Cap: He wasn’t a good person, that’s the whole point.
Moustache: It’s a huge oversight. Why make him follow Kant at all? He represents an important milestone in ethical reasoning, sure, but the discipline has moved past him. The rigidity of the categorical imperative is openly mocked.
Baseball Cap: *throwing a chair* Chidi’s morality is a defence mechanism. Modern philosophies have more space for nuance, but Chidi’s attraction to the cut and dry rigid world of Kant is a manifestation of his anxiety. Kant represents the certainty he craves.
Moustache: I think I changed my own mind making this meme, this is a very well-written show.]
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