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In June, the Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney found himself under attack for a joke he tried to make at a meeting with a group of unemployed people in Tampa, Fla. “I am also unemployed,” Romney announced, insinuating that the job he lacked was the presidency.
Jokes and Their Relation to Crisis - NYTimes.com
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The subsequent moralizing responses of Romney's critics were remarkably uniform. They boiled down to the admonishment that the crisis is not a laughing matter, that poking fun at unemployment is disrespectful to the unemployed, and so forth. But what if, on the contrary, humor and crisis share a common provenance? What if humor invariably germinates in response to a crisis, as a reaction to the excessive splits between us and our social, political or economic reality; or to the divisions within us; or to the rifts within reality itself?
#1 - Mon Oct 17, 2011 1:05 PM EDTthat poking fun at unemployment is disrespectful to the unemployed, and so forth
IT is just so much fun to poke fun at the unskilled.
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