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Can Jokes Bring Down Governments by Metahaven – you can find notes on a few hundred books and films on my blog, where the best gig is https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html

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  Can Jokes Bring Down Governments by Metahaven – you can find notes on a few hundred books and films on my blog, where the best gig is https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html     9 out of 10   The answer to the question Can Jokes Bring Down Governments may seem obvious, and we could affirm that it is no, you need much more than irony to undermine power, except that maybe we are closer to the Golden Mean https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/aristotle-in-ninety-minutes-by-paul.html of Aristotle   They could help shake the foundations, and though we do not have studies, confirmation – at least I think we do not – my view is that the samizdat, underground passing of humor targeting the regime, especially the leader, in our case, Ceausescu, but also aspects of life under communism, like the police, called militia then   Take this joke: ‘how many policemen do you need to change a bulb? Five, o...

Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti by Bertold Brecht – three more of his plays, including Mother Courage and Her Children, are reviewed on my blog, along with hundreds of other books, films, but the best gig might be this one https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html

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  Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti by Bertold Brecht – three more of his plays, including Mother Courage and Her Children, are reviewed on my blog, along with hundreds of other books, films, but the best gig might be this one https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html       8 out of 10   The other day, our national television aired Herr Puntila and sein Knecht Matti by Bertold Brecht, on one of its many channels, indeed, it was not even The Cultural one, but Number three, there is way too much there, they should have the Cultural, and then maybe nothing else, after all, on the commercial side there is abundance   Now I think of what has happened in…Bhutan, just before 2000, when they became the last country to introduce television, and with that, advertising – they insist that they are interested in measuring GHP, not the usual GDP, but the happiness levels of the citoyens, and that has given an inte...