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About how, perhaps, you know, humanity had never reached a greater point of darkness. and you can do that through a joke. so, you have to deconstruct the individualjoke and say, "what's the target? what's going on? "what's the semiotics?" basically. could you bear to? i'll tell that joke, if you like. a very shortjoke... ok, i'll tell thisjoke. ..which people will then decide whether they find it funny or offensive. go on, do it. i doubt they'll find it offensive. some people might not find it funny. i think thejoke is, in a way, more profound than it is funny. but it was told to me, thisjoke,...

One that is profound and says something about how, perhaps, you know, humanity had never reached a greater point of darkness. and you can do that through a joke. so, you have to deconstruct the individualjoke and say, "what's the target? what's going on? what's the semiotics, basically?" could you bear to? i'll tell that joke, if you like. a very shortjoke... 0k. i'll tell this joke. ..which people will then decide whether they find it funny or offensive. go on, do it. i doubt they'll find it offensive. some people might not find it funny. i think thejoke is, in a way, more profound than it is...

Joke is you can tell a very horrible, mean, racist joke about the holocaust or you can tell an innocuous joke about it, or you can tell one that is profound and says something about how, perhaps, you know, humanity had never reached a greater point of darkness. and you can do that through a joke. so, you have to deconstruct the individualjoke and say, "what's the target? what's going on? "what's the semiotics?" basically. could you bear to? i'll tell that joke, if you like. a very shortjoke... ok, i'll tell thisjoke. ..which people will then decide whether they find it funny or offensive. go o...

This joke, by a jewish literary academic called devorah baum. i'd never heard the joke before. it concerns a holocaust survivor who after the war dies and goes to heaven. and when he gets to heaven, god asks the survivor to tell him a holocaustjoke. so, the survivor does, and god says, "that's not funny." and the survivor says, "well, i guess you had to be there." what i love about thatjoke and its profundity is it says something which i personally, you know, i'm an atheist... i don't believe in god, but if i did believe in god, i might measure some of his occasional absences from the moral un...