Angriest Rice Cooker Director’s Cut 22–On “meta-”
This is one that just made me giggle. Sometimes just building a set-up and seeing where it goes comes up with a funny punchline you never would have thought of otherwise. It doesn’t always work, but when it does there can be an organic humor that is hard to get when you begin with the punchline in mind.
This useage of “meta” to mean “one layer abstracted” is a little bit odd. I think it comes out of the history of a couple different academic disciplines, but it’s surprising how much it’s penetrated our culture. Whether it’s “metafiction” or “metagaming” it seems almost hard to avoid these days. I guess this kind of abstraction is just a big part of our world today.
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