Norm Macdonald has died

Re:Norm Macdonald has died by big_curses on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @04:26PM (#28530588)

Unfortunately, if this is serious, it just makes me lose respect for him. The Enlightenment was the greatest period of human history ever with regards to philosophical and intellectual progress since ancient Greece.

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Re:Norm Macdonald has died by stareatgoats on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @05:04PM (#28531195)

You would never know if it was serious is not. It could have been more of a comment really.

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Re:Norm Macdonald has died by gbjw on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @06:31PM (#28532400)

I think it was serious. Norm was very well-read and his favourite literature was deeply religious and suspicious of modernity (Twain, Tolstoy, Proust).

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Re:Norm Macdonald has died by stareatgoats on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @07:17PM (#28532830)

Yes I know since I look askance at modernity too. But he was seldom serious (in a literal sense) about anything except sports. The seriousness was in the inferences, usually. This tweet (since deleted) if serious, was at least out of character.

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