Louis Theroux
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it gets repeated quite a bit and is sometimes attributed to Sigmund Freud.
And it does bear on, I suppose, an idea of Freud's, which is that all jokes carry some sort of emotional charge and that they are giving vent to something forbidden, that there's a tension release.
So they're not benign or pallid expressions of some sort of neutral language game.
that they are actually a truthful expression of some deeper sense of conflict or turmoil or anxiety.
So there you are.
I made that up, and there's more stuff on the teleprompter, whatever we're calling that thing.
I think I said it better than Freud.
Jimmy said, the world is harems and peepholes.
Harims are obviously gatherings of women, stables of women, often at the courts of Ottoman sultans that were at their disposal.
Peepholes are small holes through which you peep.
And that's a metaphor, I think, for social media.
So many peepholes singing.
And that will be featured on the album.
We've done that joke.
It was Blur.
You got that, Park Life.
All the peepholes, harems and peepholes.
I just freestyled that.
We don't even write this shit down.