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the airspeed velocity of an unladen joke
Aug. 25th, 2017 01:51 pmToday I wandered around reddit for an hour and all I got was a sinking feeling that I was the only Graham Chapman style straight-man within a hundred mile radius. I won't go into the details, but I will say that discursive environments in which participants are invited to judge all content by a numerical approval rating are not conducive to competent thought.
I wonder if the Internet is killing humor via Poe's Law, extending the law to encompass not just parodies of extremism, but all parodies and jokes. If everyone gets a voice, the stupidest get a voice, and will use that voice to say the most hilarious things with a straight face. Knowing this means being more likely to take humorous comments as though they are serious despite all reasonableness suggesting that they are jokes, which means tending to rage when it's more appropriate to laugh; and, maybe, getting both dumber and more unhappy as a consquence of taking so many stupid things seriously.
I forgot to talk about my experience of the eclipse, the eclipse being that thing humanity has seen many times before and practically everyone experiences the same way. I live in partial-eclipse area. Did you know that by making a waffle grid with your fingers, you can project an eclipse onto the ground? I did not know this until eclipse day. Safe and easy method for viewing. At 75% the light outside turned coppery and fake, like the moon was casting a sepia photo filter on us. Slightly surreal. Neato.
For a petition to be addressed by the White House it needs to get 100,000 signatures in thirty days. The petition to formally recognize AntiFa as a terrorist organization has acquired 300,000 signatures in about ten days. Not bad.
Some people believe that typically-feminine body poses are degrading. I do not (NSFW link). I think being fat is degrading. Complaints of "sexualization" (a jargon term in which I do not believe) are merely an effort to strip women of responsibility for their own sexuality, and thus the power that comes paired with said responsibility. This is also degrading. Hit the gym, fat feminists. I am not oppressing you, and I am certainly not a tool the men are using to oppress you.
When is the phrase, "_____ is subjective" not used to justify being either anti-intellectual or just plain unintelligent about _____? "Ugh, it's so totally closed-minded of you to want to explore the merits, flaws and essential nature of _____. People don't have to conform to your delicate sensibilities and personal subjective tastes. Could you please just shut up about it already? God. Everybody doesn't have to be just like you, bigot."
So much of the current cultural climate interests me. I've got about twenty argumentative essays and link/evidence compilations on my back burner, sitting in this journal as private entries, and a ton of research to do, none of which I should be doing. All of my writing energy should be going into fiction. So that's why I might get quiet for a bit, and not reply to entries and comments. There's so much intellectual clutter, and physical clutter, and chores, and errands, and books to read, and I should be drawing once a week, and blah, I think I'll just avoid all that and inject another three hours into Stardew Valley while listening to YouTube...-ism. Fuck I am so disorganized. I haven't touched my day planner in months. Shame.
I wonder if the Internet is killing humor via Poe's Law, extending the law to encompass not just parodies of extremism, but all parodies and jokes. If everyone gets a voice, the stupidest get a voice, and will use that voice to say the most hilarious things with a straight face. Knowing this means being more likely to take humorous comments as though they are serious despite all reasonableness suggesting that they are jokes, which means tending to rage when it's more appropriate to laugh; and, maybe, getting both dumber and more unhappy as a consquence of taking so many stupid things seriously.
I forgot to talk about my experience of the eclipse, the eclipse being that thing humanity has seen many times before and practically everyone experiences the same way. I live in partial-eclipse area. Did you know that by making a waffle grid with your fingers, you can project an eclipse onto the ground? I did not know this until eclipse day. Safe and easy method for viewing. At 75% the light outside turned coppery and fake, like the moon was casting a sepia photo filter on us. Slightly surreal. Neato.
For a petition to be addressed by the White House it needs to get 100,000 signatures in thirty days. The petition to formally recognize AntiFa as a terrorist organization has acquired 300,000 signatures in about ten days. Not bad.
Some people believe that typically-feminine body poses are degrading. I do not (NSFW link). I think being fat is degrading. Complaints of "sexualization" (a jargon term in which I do not believe) are merely an effort to strip women of responsibility for their own sexuality, and thus the power that comes paired with said responsibility. This is also degrading. Hit the gym, fat feminists. I am not oppressing you, and I am certainly not a tool the men are using to oppress you.
When is the phrase, "_____ is subjective" not used to justify being either anti-intellectual or just plain unintelligent about _____? "Ugh, it's so totally closed-minded of you to want to explore the merits, flaws and essential nature of _____. People don't have to conform to your delicate sensibilities and personal subjective tastes. Could you please just shut up about it already? God. Everybody doesn't have to be just like you, bigot."
So much of the current cultural climate interests me. I've got about twenty argumentative essays and link/evidence compilations on my back burner, sitting in this journal as private entries, and a ton of research to do, none of which I should be doing. All of my writing energy should be going into fiction. So that's why I might get quiet for a bit, and not reply to entries and comments. There's so much intellectual clutter, and physical clutter, and chores, and errands, and books to read, and I should be drawing once a week, and blah, I think I'll just avoid all that and inject another three hours into Stardew Valley while listening to YouTube...-ism. Fuck I am so disorganized. I haven't touched my day planner in months. Shame.
