what are clowns good for 

my opinion on this is that ideally clowns are the last line of defense against technology and modernisation overwriting unspoken/unrecognised ritualised human needs that are being discarded as accuracy and speed are prioritized.

clowning creates fuzzy space which bends rules and allows us to take things less seriously.

As technology deprioritizes the unpredictability of emotion, "comedy" and "bits" allows us to sneak it back in.

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re: what are clowns good for 

@siege twitter right now reminds me situationalists took it a step further
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A

re: what are clowns good for 

@confusedcharlot yes, very much so!

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