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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 13
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      In a good absurdist comedy all the characters are typically awful people. Examples: Alice in Wonderland, Hitchhikers Guide. There are no admirable people. But it’s funny because they’re all usually powerless as well in the face of the arbitrariness of the universe.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 13
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      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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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 13
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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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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 13
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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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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 13
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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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          There’s people who seem to feel humiliated by having to reveal that they learned something they. Ie they feel humiliated to say “I learned this” not just “I don’t know” When they do learn something they go to great lengths to pretend they never didn’t know it 🤔
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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 13
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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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