Comment by chmod775
14 hours ago
If you adopt an upbeat fatalistic attitude, there's at least humor to be found in letting clowns do their thing.
14 hours ago
If you adopt an upbeat fatalistic attitude, there's at least humor to be found in letting clowns do their thing.
Absurd nihilism is a phrase I heard I really like. We might as well have fun while making their life as hard as possible.
There are additional nihilist options
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44736668
often manage to be fun and funny without being (explicitly?) nihilist. Suggestions for other role models? Especially appreciated would be political writers.. (in the above thread, they came close with "sex similes")
>clowns do their thing
The clowns don't even understand they are clowns. Firing the chief of BLS for weak employment numbers ... it is like beating thermometer for showing unpleasant temperature and going out and finding a different thermometer which would show more pleasant numbers.