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FINDING_VALUES

                                         March  6-10, 2013


Starting with
"A Storm in a Teacup" (1937)

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKcuyQ7Mzmc


In the comedic mode the refusal to make
the slightest exception to the rules is
taken to be be insansely pig-headed.

In the tragic mode, the hero refuses to
compromise on moral principle, though this goes
against his personal interests in many ways.

  For example, "The Maltese Falcon"
                                               THE_FALCON
  But in other examples of tragedy,
  such as "King Lear", the tragic
  flaw is the same sort of rigidity
  about principle made-fun of in
  comedic mode...


  And I suppose, it's also common
  in comedy to make fun of hypocritical
  self-contradiction, in other words,
  to push for greater purity and
  integrity.


         Any correlation between
         comedy vs tragedy
         and pragmatism vs
         idealism would seem
         to be very weak, if it
         exists at all.





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