{"id":18394,"date":"2021-08-15T07:13:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T14:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=18394"},"modified":"2021-08-15T07:13:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T14:13:49","slug":"overnight-news-how-do-you-slay-a-tyrant-with-mockery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18394\/overnight-news-how-do-you-slay-a-tyrant-with-mockery\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight News: How do you slay a tyrant? With\u00a0mockery."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cRemember: Family is furniture. If you can\u2019t go around, go\u00a0over.\u201d<\/p><\/div>Buck Phiden graced me with five new jokes this morning, in the first hour of my day \u2013 which starts for me sometime in the dead of the night. This is ephemera on ephemera, fleeting snark on a platform where I am already suppressed.<\/a> Fun for me, which is all that matters, but a clinic for you, too, if you like, in how to write graffiti.<\/p>\n

We think of it as Roman art \u2013 graffiti and satire itself \u2013 but the Loki joke is as old as Loki, and the best exemplar of Loki in classic lit is Homer’s Odysseus, whose canine presence here graces us with a joke of his own every day.<\/p>\n

A joke has a seller (“Knock-knock”) and a buyer (“Who’s there?”). A Loki joke has a seller, a buyer and a target<\/em> \u2013 and the joke consists of the unexpected pain inflicted on the unsuspecting target.<\/p>\n

Graffiti is a Loki joke made anonymously, ideally against a powerful target. The power of the joke comes less from the underlying humor than from the risk of crossing the powerful. Accordingly, reading and especially reacting to graffiti is also risky \u2013 and, in that respect, anyone who is presumptively forbidden from laughing at graffiti is also the target of the joke.<\/p>\n

But laughter is a mammal brain phenomenon. It races ahead of the thinking brain’s plodding clerical efforts, so a chuckle can slip out before studied propriety can suppress it. Knowing in detail that we are organisms does not make us not-organisms, so our failures at the suppression of irrepressible biology are funny, too.<\/p>\n

If one man laughs at the wrong moment, it might cost him his job \u2013 or his life. If a nation laughs when it has been ordered not to \u2013 another dictatorship has fallen.<\/p>\n

It took a while, but Odysseus won everything in the end \u2013 and, of course, the world ends and begins, over and over again, because of Loki and Sigyn. And Marxism in power is always a pageant of ineptitude, a bulging balloon of sanctified buffoonery: Humorless Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cRemember: Family is furniture. If you can\u2019t go around, go\u00a0over.\u201dBuck Phiden graced me with five new jokes this morning, in the first hour of my day \u2013 which starts for me sometime in the dead of the night. This is ephemera on ephemera, fleeting snark on a platform where I am already suppressed. 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