Virtue ethics --> Identity politics --> Identity humor
Deontological ethics --> PC politics --> behaviorist humor
Consequential ethics --> Utopian politics --> motivation humor
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Yeah, this request predated the rest of the thread. My sense is that 'motivation humour' branches off into a vast field encompasses most pre-mass media comedy...Oscar Wilde, the Greeks, Dr. Jonson...
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Rest of the thread? I don’t see any thread.
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Oh, strange. He made a series of posts confirming your mapping. South Park was the Ur-example of motivation humour.
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Yeah, I tweeted this first and a little later a whole thread including a repeat of this. Keep scrolling.
Wow ... I was closer than I thought. Carlin was ahead of his time :)
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