Easy answer. Used too much. An especially weak argument when the one finding it “funny” is never from the area it’s happening in, and thus doesn’t actually have any emotional connection they’re needing to cope with.
You know there are still a couple recordings floating around from people who had tried to call family and/or 911 prior to dying in 9/11? I’ve found anyone who listens to those seems to stop making the 9/11 jokes. Strikes me odd. Must have made it real.
I’ve listened to those recordings, and I still make 911 jokes. Reading the room and compartmentalization are things that go along with Gallows humour, but its generally accepted that the internet is a space where thick skin is needed, because its impossible to know the situation of literally every stranger who’ll end up eying your comments
Good people joke to cope with the absurdity of our society’s tolerance of it and our fellow citizens demanding it stay this way so they can selfishly keep their pew pews.
It happens all the time. We live in morbid times. The sane can cry about it, be numb to it, or laugh the absurdity of it, because we have no recourse to address it. The ignorant rugged individuals that don’t want a society have spoken.
Shooting each other like dogs when we aren’t exploiting eachother for private profit is who we are and I’m ashamed of it, would you rather people horrified of this reality find a coping mechanism to get through the day like dark humor, or just kill ourselves so as not to offend?
gal·lows hu·mor /ˈɡalōz ˈ(h)yo͞omər/ noun
grim and ironic humor in a desperate or hopeless situation.
I’m Czech and our culture prides itself in gallows humor.
Way to make the year’s darkest day even darker!
Easy answer. Used too much. An especially weak argument when the one finding it “funny” is never from the area it’s happening in, and thus doesn’t actually have any emotional connection they’re needing to cope with.
You know there are still a couple recordings floating around from people who had tried to call family and/or 911 prior to dying in 9/11? I’ve found anyone who listens to those seems to stop making the 9/11 jokes. Strikes me odd. Must have made it real.
I’ve listened to those recordings, and I still make 911 jokes. Reading the room and compartmentalization are things that go along with Gallows humour, but its generally accepted that the internet is a space where thick skin is needed, because its impossible to know the situation of literally every stranger who’ll end up eying your comments
Good people joke to cope with the absurdity of our society’s tolerance of it and our fellow citizens demanding it stay this way so they can selfishly keep their pew pews.
It happens all the time. We live in morbid times. The sane can cry about it, be numb to it, or laugh the absurdity of it, because we have no recourse to address it. The ignorant rugged individuals that don’t want a society have spoken.
Shooting each other like dogs when we aren’t exploiting eachother for private profit is who we are and I’m ashamed of it, would you rather people horrified of this reality find a coping mechanism to get through the day like dark humor, or just kill ourselves so as not to offend?
I am Czech and jokes about it are circulating already. We take pride in our dark humor, fostered during our perilous 20ᵗʰ century.