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Saturday, May 23, 2009

Adding Irony to Insult

{link » Man's Search for Meaning}
“In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.” [Astoundingly, emphasis in the original!]
 — Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning (First published in German in 1946)
I have no doubt that at the time Viktor Frankl wrote those emphasized words it made sense to him. Today, those same words are the apotheosis of irony.

Given any number of contemporary examples of out-of-control machinations representing and representative of California, a "Statue of Responsibility" built on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay would be a fitting absurdity for the most absurd state in the Union.
 h/t Theo

Post #762 Adding Irony to Insult

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