[lit-ideas] Laugh Tracks

From: Andy <mimi.erva@xxxxxxxxx>
To: lit-ideas <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:04:53 -0700 (PDT)

It occurs to me that people are so led around in Bernays style "Crystallizing 
Public Opinion" that people literally can't be trusted even to figure out 
what's funny.  They have to be cued to laugh with laugh tracks.  BTW, the term 
Kristallnacht comes in part because Goebbels kept the book "Crystallizing 
Public Opinion" on his desk, needless to say an irony (no doubt a delicious 
irony to Goebbels) in addition to all the broken glass meaning of the word.  
(Source: Human Smoke, Nicholson Baker)

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