Have to think outside proverbial box to find a laugh or see alternative to what offical story is

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http://www.ep.tc/realist/supplement-002/


http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/05/287762.shtml

PK: How far back to go? I guess that the earliest one, the main awakening was, I was a child prodigy violinist, the youngest in any field ever to give a concert at Carnegie Hall, which was the age of six. I had practiced myself out of my childhood. In the sense that I was like asleep. I was playing by rote. What woke me up was, I had an itch in my leg and the natural inclination is to scratch it. But I knew, I had been trained as a little professional, you don't stop in the middle of playing to scratch you leg with your bow. The itch became fiercer, our minds have a hidden vestibule for alternative possibilities and so I got a flash of that possibility which was, and which I did, to stand on my left leg and scratch it with my right leg, without missing a note. And the audience laughed and that's what woke me up, y'know, to the sound of laughter and I got hooked?the first one was free. So that was the first step, the second was a saw a movie called Intermezzo, it was the first movie I saw and Ingrid Bergman was in it, it was her first movie and she had a crush on her violin teacher. Intermezzo was the name of the song in the title theme and it had a beautiful melody that just haunted me. I was enchanted by the mystery of why different notes and different rhythm and different tones would make you feel good. So I told my violin teacher that I wanted to learn how to play 'Intermezzo' and he said 'That's not right for you,' and that was the other shoe dropping of my awakening, that, y'know, who was he to tell me what not right for me? So that put me on guard. It's like Tim Leary said 'Everybody tries to get you onto their game board' and Ken Kesey put it 'Always stay in your own movie'. Everybody has their own metaphor. It's a continuous awakening because, especially conspiracy theory, because Ishmael Reed said 'The history of civilization is the history of warfare between secret societies.' and so if you tell people somebody they say 'Oh, c'mon, if their's secret societies, how come I haven't heard of them?' 'Because they're secret, schmuko!' So there's organizations that are structured like a pyramid, and up at the top, even if their religious organizations like the Moonies or Scientology, there can be murders at the top and you have to pass all kinds of implied blackmail and other tests they have, like in a gang it might be to kill a stranger, but whatever the initiation is to get up there so that you loyalty will be pretty secure. What's interesting to me is that a lot of comedians think in terms of conspiracy because you have to think outside the proverbial box to find a laugh or to see an alternative to what the official story is. So, Lenny Bruce, Mort Saul, Bill Maher, Jon Stewart to different degrees, Chris Rock, Wanda Sykes they can see the power behind the throne.