Comments on The Value of Monkey Laughter

colbert and stewart.

From a book on cheerfulness:

"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we, murderers of all murderers, console ourselves? That which was the holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet possessed has bled to death under our knives. Who will wipe this blood off us? With what water could we purify ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we need to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we not ourselves become gods simply to be worthy of it?"

— Nietzsche, The Gay Science, Section 125, tr. Walter Kaufmann

Charles, a great many of us have been laughing at these fools all along. It's the reasson for the popularity of Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert.

sterwart and colber, fine. but what i had in mind was a more general mood.

So dreamy and poetic Charles. You've taught me soooo... much. And I do owe you a payback. I used to respect our American Soldiers in Iraq, then you pointed out that any American soldier in Iraq is a coward, the real heros are men like Watada.

Charles,

No, seriously. I guarantee that many people were laughing at the administration long before the midterms made it 'harmless'- which, honestly, it's not, not yet- and to class those who weren't as 'cowards and slaves' is to do them a grave disservice. It seems like you're trying a little too hard to make this event fit into the wrong philosophical mold.

The "jackles" are laughing at your spelling.

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i fixed jackals. thanks.

Now fix cheerfullness [sic]. Thanks.