"The risk with the alt-right movement and Donald Trump is that in the midst of this social transformation, which of course generates anxiety, we are turning toward a movement that encourages us to find some sort of perverse joy in putting other people down and dehumanizing them".
But sometimes you know people continue to need encouragement and you have to have some sort of sympathetic joy with people who are obviously struggling, from the point of view of understanding where they're coming from.
When I look at the Nexus One's display, I can't help but slap my knee and let out some sort of proclamation of joy, like "Gee Wiz!", or "Well, I'll be!", or "Fwaaaaarg".
So his co-discovery of evidence supporting the case for a new ninth planet may go some way towards redeeming him in the eyes of those who, until 20 January, tended to view him as some sort of cosmic kill-joy who murdered the smallest, cutest member of the famous gang-of-nine.
Possibly what we are looking at is some sort of proto-Nietzscheanism, a joy in flouting morals.
This is a body album: loud and lovely, luxurious and shivering, a massed consonance, the blobby sound of joy from some sort of magic sound generator.
"There is a sort of joy when the whole audience stands up for something," he admits.
