I've been told more than once I should be a comedian and it bothers me.
Comedians have always seemed like such incredibly fake people to me. In my
headcannon, I put them as the same metaphorical bucket as I do the kinds of
people write or would write things like, “I’m funny-”, or, “I’m interesting-”
or any other sort of ostentatiousness regardless of how mild in their ‘About
Me’s on their social media profiles. Humor, similarly to physical beauty, is
something that is poisoned by acknowledgement by the person who beholds it. A
comedian is someone who not only acknowledges his or her humor, but also
actually gets paid for it. Now may be noticing some sort of similarity between
my opinions between comedians and artists (my first post), and if you decide to
read both these posts you may see even more similarities and then begin to
question why I felt comedians deserved their own roast post. The truth is, I
don’t think it deserves it’s own post I just wanted to talk about why I do not
like comedians. Back to why being told I should be a comedian bothers me, it’s
just the connotations of the word ‘comedian’ that makes me feel humiliated and
fake.
On another note, I really want to work in bioengineering. It’s remained
one of my greatest career aspirations for a significantly longer period of time
than all of my other short-lived aspirations and I feel it is a job that I
would not get bored of after ten years (I may be completely wrong). Up above
this post is a picture of the Ouroboros. The Ouroboros is an ancient symbol
usually of a snake or dragon eating its own tail and it represents the cycle of
something constantly regenerating/recreating itself. Science is advancing so
quickly that the age of an Ouroboros generation is on the horizon; a generation
of people that would not die out after sixty years, but could keep recreating
itself and have synthetic immortality. The power of science has the potential
to rival that of gods. Being a part of something potentially greater than god
sounds like something fascinating and something that should bring home plenty
of bread.
TO ALEKS
ReplyDeleteWorking in a scientific or engineering field does not predispose one to a life without comedy. Take for example the case of Mr. William Nye, who worked as a mechanical and aeronautical engineering alongside his comedic spin on science education. Despite his appearance in popular culture as a comedian, he remains a credible figure in innovation and invention and in aerospace, aeronautics, etc.
MR. R GAO
The example of the snake constantly replenishing itself was a great comperisson between your interest in science and bio engineering . Also comedians are phonies haha
ReplyDeleteIt's very interesting to me that you would want to be a bioengineer! However I could see how people would think you would be a good comedian because your
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