[Marxism] Exercise is Bad For You

[S. Artesian]

Well, I'm sorry if my sense of humor is darker than most peoples' but I 
would recommend that all Marxists take the time to learn a little bit from 
the Surrealists and their great explorations into black humor.

What I find funny, or amusing, is not the death of Hayes per se, and I could 
care less about his ideology.  The funny things are:

1. The extended on-list thread about obesity and exercise and diet and 
sanctions against Cuba, and

2. The fact that he was found next to his still-running treadmill, doing 
what he could, obviously, to cheat death, only to be caught in mid-stride, 
so to speak.

Putting those 2,3 things together-- kind of an exercise of another 
Surrealist mechanism, objective chance, struck me as ghastly and amusing at 
the same time.

There's no accounting for taste, or humor.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: " Erik Carlos Toren" <ectoren at sbcglobal.net>
To: <sartesian at earthlink.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2008 6:04 PM
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