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(68.8KB, 1080x1044) What is an outside joke?
A joke that can be understood by anyone who comes across it, rather than requiring special history or knowledge.
A joke that doesn't divide people and set them up against each other, but brings them together.
A joke that highlights all the things we have in common, without casting anyone aside, sacrificing them on the altar of humor.
Such object would be a powerful tool, a memetic spell working towards getting outsiders in, rather than working towards inward cohesion. Would you really want the inside to be all at the same frequency? Fuck no, any inside requires multitude of diverse functions not to implode.
Outside on the other hand, is the realm of signals. You don't want your joke get dampened out on your doorstep. You don't want your joke to get blocked by the walls, or reflecting back at you. You've already heard it, besides being boring it also drowns out more interesting information that might be trying to reach you from the outside.
Outside joke isn't designed to be repeated. You hear it once, pass it on and forget it. It wastes less space, in memory and in time, than all the regular condititoning that is thriving in this environment. If we want the world to become less mechanistic, less uniform, less controlled, less serious we need outside jokes.
Seriously, we need them.
