Nothing Has Meaning

Thursday, August 03, 2006

Category: Culture and Values

For a long, long time I’ve used humour as a way to speak the truth. Unwittingly, ironically, intentionally, curiously, and shrewdly.

Without a sense of humour life is meaningless. No. . . wait . . nothing has meaning anyway.

Don’t we all use humour? Don’t we all have a sense of humour? Don’t we all sense irony and humor (US spelling) in the human condition? Don’t we all see the truth? Nope.

You know how they say the truth is hard to take, and yeah, truth can be hard to take, but lies are harder to take.

The truth is really what this web site is all about. Finding truth, recognizing truth, allowing truth, thinking truth, being truth, letting go of the truth.

Is Dave Chappelle perpetuating racist stereotypes? Jon Stewart? Stephen Colbert? Monty Python? Richard Simmons?

Using the Chappelle example, the truth is that Dave is simply observing reality and in so doing raising our awareness of the cultural issues and stereotypes we are all hung up on. (Not European, should be “upon which we are hung up”.)

Humour is our only real hope as humour is a visionary perspective that is required to recognize that nothing has meaning without point of view.

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