Comedy as Philosophy and the Pandemic of Conformity
Posted by freedomforall 9 years, 8 months ago to Culture
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Human society suffers from a horrible mental virus that I call a "pandemic of conformity." It's an insidious idea that spreads from one mind to another, shutting down original thought and replacing it with the banal idiocy of political correctness.
Human society suffers from a horrible mental virus that I call a "pandemic of conformity." It's an insidious idea that spreads from one mind to another, shutting down original thought and replacing it with the banal idiocy of political correctness.
So, too, with a comedian as a social critic. I agree with Mike Adams of Natural News that George Carlin also was insightful, even for the basic divide caused by Carlin's leftwing prejudices.
But I never perceived Robin Williams as a social critic. His humor was based on improv. Of course, in the movies and on television, it was the writers who are funny. The actor just delivers the line, but there's acting ... and there's acting... and Williams was always very present. Years ago, I watched some of his stand-up via YouTube and the underneath the lines, the sadness was there, even then. Once he staged himself as an old man looking back on his career.
This is some recent 2008 political commentary from his "Weapons of Self-Destruction" routine. But the title, of course, ultimately said more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GytluXBE...
The Matrix!!!