11 OCT 2008
Funny charity
In these hard times people don't have any funny money. So in addition to helping them, we give them some.
Well, of course nobody has any funny money until they join funny world and learn how to make it. This scenario parodies the serious money shortage. In our game world we commiserate and offer help and love and funny money. We also offer hope, that you too can learn to make funny money, and return to abundance, and help others.
5674
12 OCT 2008
Make funny money
That's the grassroots quest which builds worlds and saves souls. Yet funny money is bogus. Nevertheless it justifies whatever we want to do. It echoes the false god of serious world. What a joke! We have to make funny money, our new god, but since it's worthless, we can associate it with whatever we want, which makes it very valuable.
That looks like another advance. From worthless to priceless, a magical transubstantiation, an alchemy we can all perform to connect funny money with our highest values.
This is high technology that can power a funny money economy, but it must remain a joke. It's not even a serious game currency. It's purely theatrical, procedural, as we invoke our worthless currency to get what we want.
Then it's a communal joke, an open secret, that we use our worthless stage money to enact transactions of greater value than we could achieve with serious money.
5677
13 OCT 2008
Funny world may be silly and trival
But our act can go to the opposite extreme of seriousness, creating maximum comic contrast.
The future of our world and souls is at stake, and this reduces to making funny money. We have to do what we love to do, and funny money is a theatrical facilitator.
5678
29 OCT 2008
Funny love and funny money
Our disbelieved claim is that funny love is the ultimate and best kind, just as funny money is the key to abundance. By condemning and eliminating all serious love, we appear to gut it of all value, just as funny money is worthless. Yet we enact the illusion of abundance with funny money, and enact the illusion of great love with funny love.
With funny money we can afford to be generous in rewarding funny people. Funny love is similarly abundant, and all funny people are our lovers. There's more than a hint of radical truth in that, and true-false-funny flirting is an age-old practice where we enjoy forbidden intimacy with no consequences.
Funny world will be full of breathless, urgent and promiscuous love, limited by its absurd polygamous goals. There is no pressure to bring it to fruition, or fear of the same, and we're free to take the play in any funny or satisfying direction.
5693
26 NOV 2008
Funny world party game
You have been gathered here tonight for a secret revolutionary mission to create funny world. Serious world, to which we all belong, is about to self-destruct. The survival of humanity now depends on you. Our task is to create funny world, which follows the rule: must be funny. Here are your secret badges.
This is about more than survival. Funny world is a vast improvement over serious world, an evolutionary step up. But serious world does not want to let us go. Must be funny is a heresy, and the agents of the Inquisition are everywhere. So we must disguise our subversive activities as party games.