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So ain't the ability to "learn how to be funny" encoded genetically in them? And some people, no matter how they tried, would never be able to become funny, sin

So ain't the ability to "learn how to be funny" encoded genetically in them? And some people, no matter how they tried, would never be able to become funny, since they simply do not have "the genes" that would allow it? Do you think everyone comes from the womb as a tabula rasa? Everyone has the same inherent ability to "learn to be funny"? And on a related note, an autistic guy "being funny" around his family or friends is a lot different than a professional comedian being funny on national television. Just as a national champion track and field competitor must have a baseline genetic ability to achieve this level of success, it's pretty much obvious that a highly successful comedian must be "born" with something special. By definition, he at least must "not be born" with something that impedes him to achieve it.

telesilla 4y ago
>autistic guy "being funny" around his family or friends is a lot different than a professional comedian being funny on national television Hannah Gadsby would agree (as an autistic comedian) https://youtu.be/XxETTrbh-WM https://youtu.be/XxETTrbh-WM
- bambax 4y ago
  She's super funny! Thanks.
youssefabdelm 4y ago
Everything is a Remix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJPERZDfyWc&ab_channel=KirbyFerguson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJPERZDfyWc&ab_channel=Kirby... "A child never writes his own alphabet. A seed does not grow, it needs soil, water, and radiant energy. A sailboat does not sail, it's shoved by the wind. Nothing in nature is self-activating." - Jacque Fresco We claim to be self-made, to be "born that way", yet we all have accents. But not just accents of speech, accents of action (the surfer learning to skate will skate with a 'surfing accent': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Boys https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Boys), accents of thought (many of us are familiar with the archetypal poor person in a difficult environment which imprints a 'roof could fall in at any moment' mentality, who then becomes rich yet remains in that frugal mindset), accents permeating every atom of behavior we exhibit. Why are we drawing a line around speech and saying "accents only develop here... everywhere else, we can be totally original or totally genetically talented!" The mind is fashioned by what it feeds on.

telesilla 4y ago

>autistic guy "being funny" around his family or friends is a lot different than a professional comedian being funny on national television Hannah Gadsby would agree (as an autistic comedian) https://youtu.be/XxETTrbh-WM https://youtu.be/XxETTrbh-WM

bambax 4y ago
She's super funny! Thanks.

youssefabdelm 4y ago

Everything is a Remix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJPERZDfyWc&ab_channel=KirbyFerguson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJPERZDfyWc&ab_channel=Kirby... "A child never writes his own alphabet. A seed does not grow, it needs soil, water, and radiant energy. A sailboat does not sail, it's shoved by the wind. Nothing in nature is self-activating." - Jacque Fresco We claim to be self-made, to be "born that way", yet we all have accents. But not just accents of speech, accents of action (the surfer learning to skate will skate with a 'surfing accent': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Boys https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Boys), accents of thought (many of us are familiar with the archetypal poor person in a difficult environment which imprints a 'roof could fall in at any moment' mentality, who then becomes rich yet remains in that frugal mindset), accents permeating every atom of behavior we exhibit. Why are we drawing a line around speech and saying "accents only develop here... everywhere else, we can be totally original or totally genetically talented!" The mind is fashioned by what it feeds on.