>The problem of discussing what "is" and "isn't" funny, from a left
>perspective (to be modified and adjusted based on class position,
>demographics, post-modern affinities, et. al., etc, on and on), is
>that
>h/she must first constitute what the point of humor, primarily that
>humor
>which seeks to deflate regnant social and economic philosophies, as
>well as
>the present ruling structure, "is." The Dutch sociologist Hannah Gorth
>argued in her groundbreaking study, "Laughter's Reinforcement of
>Social
>Inequities: A Guide to the Guffaws That Imprison Us All" (Fahrenheit
>Press,
>1977), comedy cannot be accurately defined until some form of social
>re-adjustment or substantial reform takes place. "To laugh or to
>create
>laughter," Gorth wrote, "in the present environment is tantamount to
>performing pantomime in a slaughterhouse. It is an exercise in
>solipsism,
>disconnected from the cries in the death chamber, free from the blood
>on the
>floor. The truest liberating comedic expression in our day and age is
>the
>frown, the inversion of what supposedly defines 'happiness' for we
>know that
>said 'happiness' is a mass hallucination.Only by being truly sad,
>truly
>grim, can we ever hope to understand what is truly funny."
>
>Gorth committed suicide two years later. In tribute, her funeral was
>played
>out in pantomime.
>
>DP
i was talking about people claims about beauty and style, asshole.
kelley