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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night If someone’s hobby is pretending to be an assho
by wmeredith 8y ago
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
If someone’s hobby is pretending to be an asshole or stupid... they might actually just be an asshole or stupid.
- Karunamon 8y ago“I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.” —Dorothy Sayers That’s twice this thread I’ve seen this Vonnegut quote as a thought-terminating cliche, which is two times too many. If you want to have a deeper discussion on the effects of irony on a community, by all means let’s do so. What we should not do is reduce the entire thing down to a pithy mess of fake profundity based on the fame of its speaker, that would be shouted down as the unsubstantiated conclusion it is, if any one of us said it.
- mensetmanusman 8y agoIt also describes many professional commedians. Humans are strange :)