Sometimes cigar is a cigar, and a joke a joke. And Not a dick! All of a sudden everyone from the urban middle-class with a university education are touchy feely about German jokes, and violation of the ethic-machine run by the polished and erudite. Pah! To make a joke, having a sense of humour is not enough. Just like having a passion is not enough. You have to work yourself over for your passion, defend it against other passions. There is an entire army of jargon-laden discourse by Freud, Lacan and now Zizek on the nature and subtlety of jokes and relationship to unconscious. Screw that! If one types in jokes+holocaust or jokes+auschwitz in JStor or Libgen, one will find a plethora of *discourse* on ethical nature of jokes, or the way people inside the camps used to deal with crisis through jokes and humour. Its nothing new. Screw that too! It should rather be a common sense that sometimes jokes are a way of coming to terms with an external reality, a reality that was not taught in schools, a reality that is hard to deal with. People understand their crisis, as well as the crisis of mankind itself through humour. Do we not look back on our own history and laugh at the most vainglorious and idiotic moments? If we didnt, our own past could have been the scourge of the newer us. No! Jokes are not innocent. It depends on the individual how he/she/__ uses the joke. Mockery is different than the art of joke, mockery is trying to debase someone and puff up ones own I. Not every joke is an example of mockery! P.S- Everyone individually is pregnant with the drives of fascism from within, one but needs to fuel it with the ministrations of power. Every nation-State has a dozen big thesaurus-sized history of it. No point in pointing out the Germans alone. That is banal.
Posted on: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 09:11:01 +0000
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