From [Marc Abrams (2006.08.12.2222)]
[From Rick Marken (2006.08.12.1120)]
Sure, if you like. I think sarcasm (I lIke to think of it as satire) is a form of humor. What sarcasm/ satire accomplishes is what Yiddish >jokes accomplished for the Jews before the Jews (some of them) became oppressors themselves (now it’s as hard to find funny >Jews as it is to find funny Republicans). Anyway, what sarcasm (or satire) accomplishes is a very personal kind of satisfaction – an >imagined little victory over oppression – for the person using it. When a Jew living in the Pale of Settlement (as did all my >grandparents) made the sarcastic blessing “May god bless and keep the czar… far away from us” he was doing it for himself (and his >fellows in the Pale), not for (or against) the people carrying out pogroms for the czar. The people doing the oppressing weren’t >going to stop just because some Jews kvetched
about it, just as the Republicans doing the hypocritical demagoguery
aren’t going to> stop because some control theorist kvetches about it. The sarcasm, I think, helps one go up a level and see the silliness of the >situation. It eases the pain.
You are one sick little puppy. Whatever it is you think you know about perceptual control is twisted all out of proportion in an ideology that is both morbid and inane.
Sarcasm = humor?
You need help, and a great deal more than anything PCT might be able to offer. I feel sorry for you. It must be absolute torture living with the hate and vitriol you walk around with.
Marc
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