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12 MAR 2006
Funny world game 2
If we're funny we can always survive in funny world, but if we're serious the Inquisition will eat us up, unless we play Inquisition, so there's a place for serious people as Inquisition, and we can also play audience and students to funny people.

What if there are no funny people, or we run out of funny material? Then the Inquisition wins and funny world is destroyed.

We can't let that happen. The survival of funny world is at stake.

How can serious people sustain a funny world? There are a few ways:

1. Deadpan.

2. Structural humor, or sitcom.

3. The very idea of serious people trying to create a funny world is funny.

Deadpan: We use the serious stuff we know and apply it in the crazy context of funny world. For example, we apply traditional religious argument to must be funny to determine articles of faith and practice. Or we create an impeccable business plan for making lots of funny money. Or a bureaucratic approach to regulating funny world.

Structural humor: That's the crazy context. It's ambiguity and level confusion, turning things upside-down, the hoax, the con and the sting, and having it both ways. Funny world is full of this structure, and if we can occupy it like a sitcom the Inquisition can't touch us.
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