You are in deep trouble when you do not laugh at absurdities.
It is no accident that George Orwell began the book 1984 by quoting the capital letters every person under the tyranny saw: “Freedom is Slavery.” No one would have THOUGHT of laughing at this. Orwell’s theme was “Freedom is the right to say that two plus two is four.”
What does a free man do when someone insists and argues and spends billions to promote the idea that two and two is three? If his first reaction is not to laugh at him, that is not a free man. Someone who takes crap seriously is on his way to slavery.
This is Mantra thinking. It proceeds from a basic: Man is the only animal that laughs. Man is the only animal who knows he will die. Laughter is a survival mechanism. A society which has forgotten what to laugh at is a society which is on its way to the grave.
You cannot go anywhere if you take absurdities seriously. That is why conservatives have no place in the election of 2008.
#1 by Dave on 02/11/2008 - 5:51 pm
Yes,
Societies die to the accompaniment of the violin cello, and are reborn to the accompaniment of the kazoo.
It is reasonable for any society to have universal literacy. But universal higher education? Get out of here!!!
Abe Lincoln was far too sophisticated and far too clever and sophisticated and clever is what gets you to propositions and Wordism.
Then everybody sits around reflecting off each other and the worst happens: they start believing they are intelligent.
It’s down hill from there, which is why the “Greatest Generation” turned into such god-awful losers.
In race relations, I have yet to meet a plain standard issue nigger who was hard to get along with. It is their very lack of education that saves them.
It is the intellectuals and professionals that are the horrors. I see a nigger doctor, lawyer, or professor and its “feets get moving”. I don’t want any part of that dude.
These people run after politicians trying to hump their behinds thinking there is power to be had.
It’s like Marilyn Monroe said: “I don’t have any talent, just a child’s imagination, but they keep trying to take it away from me.”
That’s just another way of saying that getting beat down ruins you. It’s hard not to be serious when you have gotten the hell beat out of you. That’s McCain’s problem.
#2 by Prometheus on 02/12/2008 - 6:13 am
Laughter may be the ONLY trait that seperates man from other animals. Certinatly, there is nothing else that we can do, which isn’t done to some degree in the animal kingdom.
One who cannot laugh therefore has lost their humanity.
Our uniqueness is the ability to not take things too seriously, to see a joke when we see it.
We now take everything too seriously, everything is too important, too sensetive. We are too scared to laugh, and as such, can no longer tell when we’ve been had.
We’ve gone back to the dog looking for the stick that was never thrown. We know liberalism is garbage, but we now react as if everything that a liberal says must be taken with all seriousness.
#3 by shari on 02/12/2008 - 9:47 am
Doesn’t the devil hate to be laughed at? We have to be able to sometimes laugh at the sheer rediculousness of what is said in all seriousness.
I have never been crazy about stand-up comedy. Mostly it isn’t real humor, with some humor thrown in. But, I chuckle at wit that fits, or dry humor.
#4 by shari on 02/12/2008 - 10:16 am
Something else that is so true. C.S. Lewis pointed out that the most merriment and good natured laughing is among those who essentially take each other very seriously. Anti-white racism does not do that.
#5 by Hardric on 02/13/2008 - 5:21 am
Ah yes, laughter. I certainly have no problem with that. Every time a PC? opens their mouth to blather nonsense, I laugh at them and request confirmation that they are being serious. I am sincere about that. It is so implausible.
Then the fun begins.
#6 by Prometheus on 02/13/2008 - 5:37 am
shari, anti whites are generally aware that their views are basically childishness with a thin veneer of respectibility painted on it. It is precisely because of the fragile nature of their worldview, and their insecurity, that they cannot stand being taken as anything less than deadly serious.
#7 by Simmons on 02/13/2008 - 10:05 am
The Left in general is rigidly segregated. One only need look at its protests or group gatherings to see that it is either one group or another but never together. Of course finish the liberal’s sentences right never figures this out they being is such thrall to wordism. The Left could easily be fractured it being held together by the “wishful” thinking of progressivism, and the pie of the economy. If only the right were to start asking questions instead of acting like the worst generation telling us what the sarge wants.
#8 by shari on 02/13/2008 - 10:16 am
I should have said anti-white racists, not racism. I understand that those parroting p.c. have no real self-respect, which is nessessary to be able to respect others. It’s those who DO respect each other that have the fun. That’s what I meant.