10-11-2005, 02:38 PM
Any1,Oct 10 2005, 04:41 PM Wrote:This brand of humor wouldn't have gone off as well in the aftermath of Katrina, don't you think?
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Sure it would have, and it did.
Among the overwrought hand wringers and victim cultists, gallows humor never goes over well. Among people with a bit of real life experience and perspective, jokes about disasters evince a grin, a wince, even an "oooh, harsh" type of response, but not the crybaby response that you seem to presume.
Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien make good livings telling such jokes, as to Chris Rock, David Leterman, Don Imus, George Carlin, et al.
The oversensitive approach is negative and pointless. If you can't find a way to laugh, even when the laugh comes with a wince and a groan, you are the one with problems. As noted above in the Heinlein comment, laughter can be a good coping mechanism for dealing with empathetic pain. I don't think anyone who read the news or saw the wide area disaster on TV didn't feel some empathy for the way Katrina turned a whole lot of people's world upside down in one short day.
"There but for the Grace of God," (and my living above sea level,) and all that sort of thing.
Occhi
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In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete