Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!att!cbnewsm!mls From: mls@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (mike.siemon) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: REC.HUMOR.OBJECTIVISM Summary: why O'ists are funny Message-ID: <8989@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> Date: 2 Feb 90 17:37:53 GMT References: <3284@iitmax.IIT.EDU> <1869@castle.ed.ac.uk> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 17 In article , jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell) writes: > I'd like this person to give a rational explanation of why he finds > Objectivism hilarious. One of the classic studies of laughter (from a philosophic viewpoint :-) was by Bergson. In brief, he suggested that we consider humorous those behaviors or situations in which human beings are seen as "mechanical" (or in more modern idiom, programmed) where a normal onlooker sees the mechanism as inappropriate. Case closed. -- Michael L. Siemon As grain once scattered on the hillside cucard!dasys1!mls Was in this broken break made one, att!sfbat!mls So from all lands thy church be gathered standard disclaimer Into thy kingdom by thy son.