RE: origins...
December 3, 2018 at 12:24 pm
(This post was last modified: December 3, 2018 at 12:26 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Maybe you're approaching the whole thing too negatively, tack, in that it does seem obvious that the sarcasm you're referring to is sarcasm leveraged at something important to you, which you experience negatively.
Maybe it's not about superiority or disingenuity or trying to avoid Some Belief™ or bullying...but that we need to laugh. That laughter brings us relief. That sarcasm..is funny. Some of us find sarcasm, even sarcasm directed at our own sacred cows..funny. Some of us even find our own initial reactions to that sarcasm (on full display in your op) itself...funny...maybe even funnier than the sacred cow was.
We laugh, we take some thing less seriously, we take ourselves less seriously. In all of this a weight is lifted.
Maybe it's not about superiority or disingenuity or trying to avoid Some Belief™ or bullying...but that we need to laugh. That laughter brings us relief. That sarcasm..is funny. Some of us find sarcasm, even sarcasm directed at our own sacred cows..funny. Some of us even find our own initial reactions to that sarcasm (on full display in your op) itself...funny...maybe even funnier than the sacred cow was.
We laugh, we take some thing less seriously, we take ourselves less seriously. In all of this a weight is lifted.
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