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On the flip side of the coin, CNN.com has a great article today on the smashing success of the musical The Producers in Tel Aviv. For those of you who don't know, the plot is that a down-on-his-luck guy tries to make a flop of a broadway show, intending to steal money raised to make the show. The show's plot is all about Nazis and Hitler.
So, packed crowds in Tel Aviv are roiling with laughter as a goofy hitler and swastika-clad actors march around on stage listening to Wagner.
To me it is clear, any culture that has a mature sense of laughing at itself is absolutely superior.
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