pathetic attempts to be funny. I think that's certainly redundant. There's a local doctor here who is one of the leaders in exploring the healing properties of laughter, but I think it would be as significant to study the pathology of comedy.

Treehouse, there's just something about your position that makes no sense at all. Several things, really, and they all point to an unflattering characterization of your ability to think socially. Just one thing--you talk about people in power here, as if it were by some sort of... what? It's fantastically absurd. You can only influence people by example and by your own sort of participation, not by decree. And you can't really slap anybody, just make them think less of you and your input. And since you're anonymously posting that adds up to achieving less than nothing. This way won't work, and no amount of self-proclaimed high-mindedness will, would, or could. Surely you see that now. It's an autistic fantasy of social life. It's ridiculously self-centered.

And you're missing a very deep vein of humour by dismissing it out of hand. Some stupid things only really become funny by persisting against all sense and reason. It's only at the zillionth invocation of a moronic theme that it becomes somehow hilarious. A friend of mine was in a sociology class which examined jokes, and I suggested they banter a theme like, say, Is this going to be on the test? all term. It's stupid, and annoying, but. By the end it will be funny. This phenomenon seems to tie in to Henri Bergson's theory of comedy as Something mechanical inlaid upon the human, and also has interesting connection to Sanford Meisner's acting pedagogy. Say--You like my tiara? I like your tiara--back and forth with a partner until something happens.

What good is announcing you possess a fine sense of humour, instead of offering it? You seem to have it, but without meaning it.