What of us who have coped with it? I have to do things like laugh at them because if I didn't, the weight of what they are doing to me and mine and everyone would hit me, prevent me from acting, and bring despair - and despair is not safe for me. I see what you are saying and the desensitizing to violence/suffering has definitely contributed to this moment, and I genuinely wonder. I have a mystic practice that encourages sitting with your emotions, but I'd be useless. Maybe I'm missing something?
My main mode is action and good works, but I have so little power.
The one thing that clown world holds sacred is the inviolable right to turn everything into a joke. Slaughter that sacred cow and you will get right to the heart of the matter.
I love so much of what's brought up here! I do think that irony and the narcissistic detachment that has been the default of society for sooooo long now is something to criticize.
I also believe that "funny" exists everywhere because there's something comedic in the building of tension -- however, as you point out, we are so addicted to the high-speed meme-ification of everything. The process of creating jokes is turned into this expedited, manufactured product that we can gorge ourselves on. The art of comedy is essentially truth telling (diametrically opposed to the joke-ification you bring up in your writing) and we've most certainly lost the ability to treat that building of tension as something precious. Something worth investing in to make the laugh a release as opposed to the fear-ridden sort of banishment.
Great points all throughout and I'm happy I stumbled across this because something I've had on loop in my head is that "everything is funny, but not everything is a joke."
this is so so good and important.
Fucking brilliant.
Incredible as always.
What of us who have coped with it? I have to do things like laugh at them because if I didn't, the weight of what they are doing to me and mine and everyone would hit me, prevent me from acting, and bring despair - and despair is not safe for me. I see what you are saying and the desensitizing to violence/suffering has definitely contributed to this moment, and I genuinely wonder. I have a mystic practice that encourages sitting with your emotions, but I'd be useless. Maybe I'm missing something?
My main mode is action and good works, but I have so little power.
The one thing that clown world holds sacred is the inviolable right to turn everything into a joke. Slaughter that sacred cow and you will get right to the heart of the matter.
I love so much of what's brought up here! I do think that irony and the narcissistic detachment that has been the default of society for sooooo long now is something to criticize.
I also believe that "funny" exists everywhere because there's something comedic in the building of tension -- however, as you point out, we are so addicted to the high-speed meme-ification of everything. The process of creating jokes is turned into this expedited, manufactured product that we can gorge ourselves on. The art of comedy is essentially truth telling (diametrically opposed to the joke-ification you bring up in your writing) and we've most certainly lost the ability to treat that building of tension as something precious. Something worth investing in to make the laugh a release as opposed to the fear-ridden sort of banishment.
Great points all throughout and I'm happy I stumbled across this because something I've had on loop in my head is that "everything is funny, but not everything is a joke."