Monday, October 15, 2007

Dead Babies are Funny

I find dead baby jokes hilarious. The combination of the initial shock, and the feeling that you are in fact saying something otherwise unacceptable in everyday society to a bunch of chums seems like a wonderful past time, like baseball, but more dead babies. I think that if everyone accepted the fact that dead babies was funny, the world would be a better place.

So many people live in this crazy world where everyone acts on their jokes. If a rabbi a priest and a black guy are on a plane, this nutty person really believes that a rabbi a priest and a black person would really be on a plane. So the very immediate thought that goes through this nutty persons head as a baby joked is iterated to someone is, "If this joke is being said, that means someone, somewhere is killing a baby" So their next initial response is to shut down their sense of humor and block out every thought thereafter. They are so obsessed with never being creative or happy, that they will never, ever, in the existence of the world, think that anything remotely funny, yet offensive, is funny.

They are the kinds of people that listen to recordings of Jerry Seinfeld while watching Family Matters and being butt raped by Bill Cosby. These are the kinds of people that will call the cops on a family party that is playing Sting because they think it's offensive. These are the kinds of people who will only let their children listen to christian rock because it incorporates god loosely in the lyrics and never mentions anything outside the prescribed bubble. You must remember, that these people have a warped view of the world because they have this idea of what is right and wrong, and then never press those boundaries.

I understand why. It's scary when somethings outside of the bounds of predictability. Family Matters and Bill Cosby are predictable and somewhat entertaining.

Children, then, need to be controlled in a similar way so as to avoid having to deal with any kind of problems in the future. You give them christian rock, they won't take the advice of a rapper insisting to have anonymous sex and kill rival gang members. You let them think on their own, who know what will happen?

Maybe they will think about something that you don't want them to think about. Maybe [gasp] they will grow some balls and defend themselves from the constant onslaught of constriction and censorship that you put up for them.

Control. That's the reason we want to be put into our little cage of our own little ideas that never grow, never become anything more then what we want them to be. We put our children and our close acquaintances in this little cage with us, and immediately kick them out once they show any sense of the outside world. Why? Control.

So maybe dead babies don't fit into your little cage, and maybe you wanted some kind of joke to come out of this, but I really don't care. You don't want a dead baby joke, you want to have a thought that is linear and predictable, because you who want that, are the most caged of them all.