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Actually, not quite so. There's structure, otherwise it would be incomprehensible and people would not resonate so much with it.

William James said that philosophy “sees the familiar as if it were strange, and the strange as if it were familiar.” The same is true of standup comedy. Simon Critchley has written that both ask us to “look at things as if you had just landed from another planet”. [1]

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/humor/




"strange as if it were familiar"

Don't you see the paradox you have introduced. What came first the strangeness or the familiarity?

We are all very good at meaning/structure making post hoc.




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