[lit-ideas] Re: The Simpsons as philosophy
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 20:00:49 EDT
<<For Julie, my laptop is not working. I think it's the software. I have
to have it fixed. In the meantime, I went to Yahoo because I don't have the
amago address loaded on my other computer. Yahoo is a bit cumbersome because
it's web mail, but better than Earthlink's web mail. I thought minerva was
rather clever, a bit of a spoof on myself. >>
Well, I grinned.
Julie
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Thanks for posting this. I want to say that further to the thread regarding
the take off on the Ahmadinejad letter, sometimes, often in fact, laughter
is a form of stress relief, kind of the flip side of crying. However,
sometimes comedy is just evil too, mockery, derision, arrogance. Arrogance
truly is
a form of self hatred, somewhere in the narcissistic disorder spectrum. The
'humorous' responses to Ahmadinejad's overtures strike me as falling into
the second category. Bombing a country is such a breathtakingly serious
issue
that to use any comedy on it at all is completely inappropriate, to put it
mildly. There should have been at the least an official response to not take
those who are doing it seriously.
For Julie, my laptop is not working. I think it's the software. I have to
have it fixed. In the meantime, I went to Yahoo because I don't have the
amago address loaded on my other computer. Yahoo is a bit cumbersome because
it's web mail, but better than Earthlink's web mail. I thought minerva was
rather clever, a bit of a spoof on myself.
John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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
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