[lit-ideas] The Simpsons as philosophy
- From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 16:23:34 +0900
Anyone else seen this?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4995624.stm
Two particularly pointed paragraphs:
"To speak truthfully and insightfully today you must have a sense of
the absurdity of human life and endeavour. Past attempts to construct
grand and noble theories about human history and destiny have
collapsed.
"We now know we're just a bunch of naked apes trying to get on as best
we can, usually messing things up, but somehow finding life can be
sweet all the same. All delusions of a significance that we do not
really have need to be stripped away, and nothing can do this better
that the great deflater: comedy."
--
John McCreery
The Word Works, Ltd., Yokohama, JAPAN
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