On 3/16/2015 3:47 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 12:34 AM, LizR <lizj...@gmail.com
<mailto:lizj...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Well of course laughing AT people you dislike is a classic bullying
technique. And
then you say "oh come on it was only a joke!"
Yet bullies never make jokes about themselves, because they are often
humourless
sociopaths.
I agree. I think people understand intuitively that making fun of someone that is at a
disadvantage in relation to you is just mean and distasteful. It is sociopathic to find
that sort of thing funny. It's very common with teenagers, and I think that part of the
reason is fear: if you don't join in on the bullying, you could become the victim
yourself. Unfortunately, some people never develop past that stage.
I don't think that this joke is mean in any sense. On the contrary, I think that
environmentalists that can't laugh about it a bit should be worried that they are
becoming too religious.
But to be funny, and not bullying, the joke needs to be on the privileged and powerful.
That's why it works. Prius buyers are relatively well off. If it were counseling suicide
for poor Indians in Mumbai slums as a solution to overpopulation it wouldn't be funny.
Brent
I even think that great jokes can be made about the senseless destruction of everything
we hold dear. People who don't believe me should read "The Hitchhiker's Guid to the
Galaxy".
Telmo.
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