• FUCKRedditMods@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I mean they have to hit you with just the right amount of a lot of things to make you funny, but I’d put a lot of determiners far ahead of any possible correlation to trauma

    • critical/analytical thinking
    • a personality that sees ‘attention’ as a reward
    • strong social drive and desire to please others
    • communication skills

    To be more ‘funny’ than ‘suicidal,’ wouldn’t the right amount of trauma always be as little trauma as possible?

    • Vincent Adultman@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Valid point. But, there are many reasons people are funny and like funny things. Sometimes I get the feel that I am laughing at something just to forget the harshness in life. Bo Burnham in “What’s Funny” explains it better:

      "Humor is often linked to shared experience

      Like, a guy gets up and says

      “Have you noticed that public restrooms have really inefficient hand-dryers?”

      Oh, my god! Yes, I have!

      Ha-ha-ha, really good point

      They should fix that…

      It’s good to know that somebody finally gets me

      Because my wife divorced me, which subconsciously forced me

      To lose all sense of self

      So, it’s nice to think about hand-dryers and not that cheating whore"