I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about.
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The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.
Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.
The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.
The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.
Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
No politician would ever comment on a cartoon unless it was to show what a great sense of humour they have, that they can laugh at themselves.
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.