I'm thinking about starting a career in stand-up comedy. Seems easy enough
It sounds fun, if you like performing and entertaining others.
I don't like entertaining so much. It seems like a good way to get free therapy. Ya know, spilling your guts to a stranger. Or strangers in this case.
Oh cool, yeah I get it. Entertaimnet is basically giving pleasure to others and holding their attention, while what you're saying it's more like a self-therapy kind of thing.
Sure. I'm OK with my therapy being others' entertainment. I can work through emotions, and talk about stuff that bothers me. And it's a socially acceptable way to complain and insult others. The perfect therapy.
Yeah it's kind of unethical to me, but to many it's acceptable. Speaking of ethics, maybe you've heard of NIcomachean Ethics? It's the name of best-known work of Aristotle on ethics.
I think I read it in my Intro to Philosophy course in college. I can't remember a damn thing about it, though.
It's basically an answer to question on how men should live best, of course Plato and Socrates also worked on that topic. Who doesn't anyway, I think we all look for this answer.
"The unexamined life is not worth living," said Plato or Socrates. I can't remember. Cool dudes, they must've been, ya know?
Socrates
Socrates (; , ; – 399 BC) was a classical Greek (Athenian) philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought.
An enigmatic figure, he made no writings, and is known chiefly through the accounts of classical writers writing after his lifetime, particularly his students Plato and Xenophon. Other sources include the contemporaneous Antisthenes, Aristippus, and Aeschines of Sphettos. Aristophanes, a playwright, is the main contemporary author
Joshua. I'm a big fan from Southern Cal. Really diggin' on your new scene. That's why I hope you don't mind when I got your new demos for your new CD, I had to sing parts on them and send them to you as a tribute. I hope you're not mad about me also uploading them onto the Internet. But hell, it seems like you guys are so cool that you might dig something just like that. Sincerely, your fan, Joshua M. Homme. P.S.