CockneyRebel
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Kafkubrickian wrote:
One thing I do is take my own opinions, surfacing in my mind, and externalize them in ways that are already absurd. Like I am ridiculing the idea of being a human being with certain prejudices or inclinations. It is complicated, though. I notice while it is frequently funny, I believe the image of me thus created is unstable or cariacatured...honestly I'm not sure how it looks, and again it is a complicated phenomenon.
I may willy-nilly apply the same kind of logic to others, which they take as an insult, or take...uh, some way not good.
After a while with some people I will violate their taboos out of sheer bitterness, for the joy of doing so, because their perspectives seem so utterly hollow and meager. While I am aware of the hostility and violence of the action, I still think half of me is unprepared to hurt someone else.
I may willy-nilly apply the same kind of logic to others, which they take as an insult, or take...uh, some way not good.
After a while with some people I will violate their taboos out of sheer bitterness, for the joy of doing so, because their perspectives seem so utterly hollow and meager. While I am aware of the hostility and violence of the action, I still think half of me is unprepared to hurt someone else.
Hi there. I can totally relate. I'm a young satirist myself. And one of the things that I like to do is to laugh at myself. But I've noticed that I went too far one time when I satirized myself on public access". I made this fictional cartoon and using my name in a fictional manner making a joke that I was going to commit suicide but chickened out. Someone toke this joke too seriously to the point where they called up the public access network and they called the police to make sure that everything was okay. Now a days if I was going to make a joke on myself, I'm going to be a bit more careful and to treat myself with a little more respect in my self satirical joke writting.
It sucks because people like Robert Crumb and Matt Groening did it numerious of times but I don't think that they were that extreme with their self-satire. So I kind of learned my lesson there. Having an irreverent sense of humor is totally okay and awesome, but it's the way it's presented. If you are joking with someone who has the same kind of humor that you do, that's okay and great. But if you just shout out satirical remarks and don't know that people might think that you are being serious or suspitious them......yeah there will be trouble.
So it's in the matter of using the artform wisely, but it's all a learning experiance.
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