Laura shrugs her shoulders and says, "Well, I could throw ten $100 bills out the window and make ten people very happy."
Jenna says, "Of course then, I could throw one hundred $10 bills out the window and make one hundred people very happy.
"The pilot rolls his eyes, looks at all of them and says to his co-pilot, "I could throw all of them out the window and make 56 million people very happy."
The philosophy of this political joke is argument and it is an example of the Inductive Argument from Analogy. (Cathcart & Klein 36). This joke is the representation of the political situation in the United States. Air force one represents the government with key players the Bush family. We can see an authoritarian series of arguments starting from the George Bush (more power) to the rest of the family. The pilot represents the power of the people and his use authority and power to overcome the previous arguments. As joke, of course it has social and political philosophies which are interconnected systems. A fundamental problem with arguments from analogy is that someone can get totally different perspectives from different situations or points of view.
3 comments:
your joke seems to have more to do with authority and quantity...
and less with the sex of the parties...
yet you notate sex..?
why, in this instance?
Because i thought the government suppose to be a big family. Most of the families have arguments and most of the time the go with the opinion of the most authoritorian figure.In the joke more authority means more money but less results,like republikan party. the money go to the few and selected
maybe...but i think you need to re prioritize the information...
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