It's very difficult to have a call to jihad, with a mouthful of peanut butter.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker uses humor to suggest that serious calls to action are incompatible with mundane or absurd situations.
- In plain terms
- It is hard to take radical calls seriously when faced with trivial things.
- What can you take from it?
- Absurdity can undermine serious rhetoric.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- When does humor undermine serious messages?
- How do we spot incongruity?
Another view
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