Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.
The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.
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.
Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
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.
Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.
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.
Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.
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