"The Humper Family--A Study in Absurdity"

"The Humper Family--A Study in Absurdity"
By Victor C. Nathan


The Humper family with all their excesses, extremes and exaggerated
egregious antics are the natural result of a decade, the 1960s, which
represented a turning from intellect to emotions and self-indulgence.
Hilda Humper, the matriarchal head of the Humpers perhaps personifies
this more than any other character save June Humper herself. Hilda
celebrates the worship, the deification of the nerve endings that the
sixties generation mainstreamed with astonishing rapidity. The anti-
establishment slogan of "If it feels good, do it" is nowhere better
displayed than within the unsettling, yet humorous parameters of the
Humper household.

Yet the tales of the family Humper hardly give support to the
reigning leftist zeitgeist of our times, the zeitgeist that has
beseiged the US, Canada and all of Old Europe. Hilda, Harriet, Henry
and June seem to indulge in their amorous behavior, satiate the
cravings coursing through their private parts while giving a wink to
the amused reader that should by now be in on the joke, the satirical
commentary that they are making. The sexual license taken in these
tawdry tales show a group of characters who have taken the radical
Left's ideology to its logical end, but still attempt to hold on to a
modicum of innocence, hence their childish use of terms like "wee
wee" and "pee wee head." Their insatiable desire to copulate has not
stricken all facets of their lost innocence from their personas. The
Humpers resemble Adam and Eve, two fallen beings driven from the
Garden of Eden because of the knowledge of good and evil, but yet
longing to return to that utopian world, if only temporarily. Yet the
angel with the flaming sword holds them back from reentry because of
their capacity for original sin.

The Humpers immature grasping for silly childish frivolity juxtaposed
beside their shameless promiscuity symbolizes the duality in all of
us, what Johnny Cash was referring to when he talked about two dogs.
One of the dogs is black with a white stripe, representing the bad
person who still has a bit of good left in him, though very little.
The other dog is white with a black stripe. This dog represents the
good person, who although good still has some bad, some sin residing
within him. Perhaps the Humpers would all be black dogs, but not
totally black dogs. The Humpers, traditional in many overlooked ways,
are not all bad. Hilda loves her children and dotes on them, although
in well-meaning but misguided ways, hence her stroking of Henry's
oversized penis to the point of squirting ejaculation and her
permitting him to place his phallus between her basketball boobs for
sexual gratification.

Yet the Humper family, more than anything else, are cartoons. They
are 1960s fantasy that show us that the apple of the 1960s, accepted
by so many as desirable, still contains a worm. The excesses of the
Humpers, which admittedly do contain much humor, only show us the
absurdity of what passes for modern liberalism. Much of what the
modern Left advocates as axiomatic resembles a circus sideshow as
patently ridiculous as the lives, actions and attitudes of the Humper
family.