FUNNY: Got Scandal Fatigue? Here's the Cure...Absurdity Today Ep. 39

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Got Scandal Fatigue?
Scandal Fatigue: n. A condition whereupon suffers "can't F'ing BELIEVE these partisan, government and/or corporate media pricks are crying victim to actions they themselves have been guilty of for the last 40 years and FLOODING the airwaves with this crap when there are REAL scandals out there to cover and actual work to be done."

Sufferers of Scandal Fatigue often exhibit tell-tale symptoms such as the sudden uncontrollable urge to rant, publicly or by audibly grumbling to oneself; increased anxiety; and a strong desire to self-sooth by watching internet cat videos. In severe cases, suffers may start to believe that Meet The Press is a balanced national conversation. Seek immediate attention if Fox News starts sounding rational.

Luckily today there's a cure: fast-acting Absurdity Today with Julianna Forlano. Taken weekly alongside your regular dosage of independent media, and Real Time/ Daily Show/ Colbert Report /Viewpoint regimen, Absurdity Today can arrest your symptoms in under two minutes.*

Side effects include increased mirth, feelings of well being without dampening the desire or ability to be an active participant in democracy, spontaneous laughter but not in the crazy way, and a sense of community.

Try this video to see if Absurdity Today is right for you:

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*These statements have not been approved by the FDA, probably because they are true.

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1. Absurdity is kind of deconstructionist, a de facto time-out from all of this absoluteness,

a break toward phenomenology, rather than ideological wars.

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I have heard smart kids (young engineers) say that deconstruction necessarily implies con -struction, or, more precisely, RE- construction (change) and, hence, something like general cognitive re -construct -ivity . . . a phenomenological trait of diversity.

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3. YOU UNDERSTAND!!!!

You may be the first person to put my vision into words!

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5. I have enjoyed talking about this stuff ever since I did undergrad "Lit Crit" where I chose

Samuel Beckett and Waiting for Godot for one of my papers (so I surveyed Absurdist literature and some of their Existentialist predecessors too). I encounter people who are interested in deconstruction and absurdity more often than you might think. It also appealed to my longstanding interest in cognitive Psychology, which, in turn, had lead me into the logical foundations of rational empiricism and its related questions having to do with certain limitations in the nature of proof in what Westerners refer to as knowledge. Systems, all. Or a bunch of games with which we amuse ourselves between something and nothing, a "place" that those of us from the '60s had a cursory introduction to from dalliance with Eastern philosophies.

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7. I think we can be friends now...

I majored in the philosophy of language (Wittgenstein et al) and I TOO have an interest, and an active practice (shhhhh don't tell anyone I used to be a psychotherapist and still dabble) in cognitive psychology. I think I would like to read and re read some of these things again~

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8. I used to teach high school AP Psych from the perspective of science and research.

I also taught journalism and senior composition.

I'm really too busy to keep up anymore. There is a small activist culture in this metro.

In a perfect world, I would be an eternal student.

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9. Me too....

on your lines one and 3

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2. Self regulation leads to blindness...

Well can they do it just until they need glasses?

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4. Love your little laughing man...

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6. Juliana is cool! I hope that isn't an insult to an absurdist! nt