#3 J. Posadas's Apocalyptic Communism
Book Club From Hell
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The Future of Love
In 1976, the function of the joke in history in this article, he says that jokes will disappear in 20 to 30 years. So why won't we be making jokes in the future? Well, as far as I can tell, it's because the only reason to make a joke is if you're not joyous and obviously in a communist society, everyone will be joyous all the time. There'll be no need to tell jokes as forms of criticism or dissent or like making your situation more joyous than it currently is. Everything will just be perfect. We are in a post joke world. And my misrepresenting his point of view was a bit hard to pass. It was a
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