[lbo-talk] Conservative comedy... (Was Dull, dull, dull)

[Luke Weiger]

> Dennis wrote:
>
>> "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."

Joanna wrote:


> OK. Why am I not surprised that this woman committed suicide?

I'm pretty sure that Dennis was taking a stab at satire (and a good one at
that).

-- Luke