What's Wrong With You Cat

what's wrong with you!!! I don't know But, I ask you, is this not precisely the foundation of psychoanalysis? This “I don’t know,” this *schniff* “je ne sais pas.” The American Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, offered almost a complete epistemic theory of the possible types of knowledge when “zchniph” speaking about the supposed “WMDs” possessed by Saddam Hussein. He claimed that there are “known knowns,” things that one knows that they know, “known unknowns,” things that one knows they don’t know, and “unknown unknowns,” things that one does not know that they do not know. However, Rumsfeld left out a fourth possibility: the “unknown known,” something that one knows, but that they do not know that they know. [sniffs deeply] This is exactly the function of the Freudian notion of the unconscious: the neurotic does not know that he knows the

A small sad-looking cat asks a human-like figure why something is wrong, and the cat replies, “I don't know.” Below, an absurdly over-intellectualized explanation connects the cat’s uncertainty to psychoanalysis, Slavoj Žižek-style commentary, and Donald Rumsfeld’s “known knowns” and “unknown unknowns” theory. The joke is the extreme contrast between a simple reaction image and an unnecessarily dense philosophical analysis, making it useful when someone gives a baffling or evasive answer. EN: A small sad-looking cat asks a human-like figure why something is wrong, and the cat replies, “I don't know.” Below, an absurdly over-intellectualized explanation connects the cat’s uncertainty to psychoanalysis, Slavoj Žižek-style commentary, and Donald Rumsfeld’s “known knowns” and “unknown unknowns” theory. The joke is the extreme contrast between a simple reaction image and an unnecessarily dense philosophical analysis, making it useful when someone gives a baffling or evasive answer.

• @jeppa420 / 7757 2020-10-05