tilda, my love.
Well, why do oppressed people have such great jokes? The pat explanation is that they need solace, they need to laugh because they are suffering. But it also might be that they constantly need to be inventive, to reinvent their relationship to reality because it’s so inimical to them.
Making jokes pierces through the stupid logic that supports a system, and we laugh because we know that it makes no sense. It’s laughing at yourself for being so stupid as to believe in this system.
You know when you laugh so hard your sides are splitting? It’s because everything you thought was true is not true anymore. And then you’re left with nothing, which is hilarious in just the sheer hopelessness of it. When we create jokes about society and the way reality is and how it can be, it’s a way of getting past this reality and recreating the world.
(Source: wagingnonviolence.org)
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turkish proverbs
Nice detail of Wayne Thiebaud’s Girl with Pink Hat via Instagram
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Parmigianino: A Turkish Slave (aka, Portrait of a Young Woman) (ca. 1533)
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