The tragedy of human life is that it plays out on a small enough canvas that sometimes some of the awful people have meaningful power for a while. Long enough to do real damage to the whole known world.
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Imagine Alice in Wonderland but with the Queen of Hearts having actual “off with their heads” power. Or even Alice herself, the viewpoint character but a pretty awful character, with full power. Or HHG with Zaphod or Arthur in charge of the galaxy. Comedies —> tragedies.
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In HHG, the Vogons have earth-destroying power and do destroy Earth, but it’s a comedy because the galaxy is the canvas and the earth is a rounding error.
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In a way being an awful honor society person is our default state. It takes facing you to vast arbitrariness of the universe to actually enjoy learning things without feeling like you’re losing face. In a vast, arbitrary universe nobody is looking at you.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1249868311757639681?s=21 …
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This is the opposite of the honor society axiom zero: the universe is small enough that the gods are taking a personal interest in you and the universe is conspiring to promote you to their ranks.
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I heard you say that on Scorpio Season but Lisa on the Simpsons is good and reasonable. When is she not good? (I have watched vastly fewer episodes than you no doubt but still)
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Alice or Lisa? Alice is basically a female Eric Cartman if you read closely lite. Lisa Simpson is never not nice that I can recall. She fails sometimes but always learns and grows from it.
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Lewis Carroll was a math professor. The tea party is a nice reflection of the different types of students in a classroompic.twitter.com/RxkOHTaY9Y
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Humor of the arbitrary cuts both ways. Nearly every character in The Naked Gun (for example) is guilelessly good.
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Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders is a perfect mix of absurdist comedy (complete with awful characters) and tragedy. Highly recommend if you haven't read it.
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