Chris Garvey
@determinatorx.bsky.social
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My interests revolve around the fraught relationship between capitalism, society and technology.
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Chris Garvey
@determinatorx.bsky.social
· Jan 28
The Strange Power of Laughter
An anthropologist explores laughter as a far more complex phenomenon than simple delight—reflecting on its surprising power to disturb and disrupt.
www.sapiens.org
For some science is not a laughing matter. For the team that opposes a difficult problem it can be recognition of a shared humanity. In the words of William Shakespeare in the Merchant of Venice.
“If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh?"
www.sapiens.org/culture/unco...
“If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh?"
www.sapiens.org/culture/unco...
To paraphrase the great American intellectual Noam Chomsky, "sport is the opiate of the masses". In this context an Australian competing in the superbowl, under the watchful eye of Emperor Trump and his court, falls into this metaphor quite nicely.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
Mailata's Super Bowl win completes one of Australia's great sporting triumphs
Jordan Mailata's first experience with the Super Bowl was in 2017 watching Beyoncé's half-time show. Now he is a champion and completes one of the greatest sporting triumphs by anyone born on Australi...
www.abc.net.au
February 10, 2025 at 8:27 AM
To paraphrase the great American intellectual Noam Chomsky, "sport is the opiate of the masses". In this context an Australian competing in the superbowl, under the watchful eye of Emperor Trump and his court, falls into this metaphor quite nicely.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
community standards on some other social media platform.
February 10, 2025 at 7:13 AM
community standards on some other social media platform.
Gaza would suggest the lesson, empathic or the realpolitik, was not learned. It remains the same.
“After Auschwitz, the human condition is not the same, nothing will ever be the same. Here, heaven and earth are on fire.”
—Elie Wiesel
—Elie Wiesel
January 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Gaza would suggest the lesson, empathic or the realpolitik, was not learned. It remains the same.
For some science is not a laughing matter. For the team that opposes a difficult problem it can be recognition of a shared humanity. In the words of William Shakespeare in the Merchant of Venice.
“If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh?"
www.sapiens.org/culture/unco...
“If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh?"
www.sapiens.org/culture/unco...
The Strange Power of Laughter
An anthropologist explores laughter as a far more complex phenomenon than simple delight—reflecting on its surprising power to disturb and disrupt.
www.sapiens.org
January 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
For some science is not a laughing matter. For the team that opposes a difficult problem it can be recognition of a shared humanity. In the words of William Shakespeare in the Merchant of Venice.
“If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh?"
www.sapiens.org/culture/unco...
“If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh?"
www.sapiens.org/culture/unco...