Posts filed under 'Thoughts'

Humans Are Strange

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Humans are strange animals. Have you ever noticed how desperately they try to communicate with one another? They speak, they write, they paint, they sing -- they laugh, they cry, they make faces and they make gestures -- they fight wars, they seduce, they raise their voices, they partake in passive-aggressive dances when you don’t turn the TV c[...]
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The Nature of Comedy

Sunday, March 15, 2009

On the elevator-thing this morning some punk-toddler was pointing at me as if he’s never seen a dinosaur before. His mother leaned in and whispered, “Don’t point.” Don’t point? Humans are fascinating. Where along the way did human society decide it was rude to point? I decided to point back. His mother gave me a look that would [...]
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The Oedipus Context, The Situation Complex

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Were we ever expected to take the Oedipus complex seriously? I think most of us realize a lot of Freud’s ideas were flawed and his pop-psychology really only penetrated (ha) the early 20th century’s zeitgeist because it was racy to talk about psychosexual stuff, especially in a day when people couldn’t rely on the Jersey Shore for entertainme[...]
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