Sometimes you just have to laugh at clown world when you would otherwise feel helpless. And even before things got as bad as they are today, laughing was a defense mechanism for many people. The same way people will read a crime story and rationalize how they wouldn't be as stupid or caught off-guard as the victim, so they don't have to empathize or admit that they could be in the same situation and the world is a scary place.
I'm not really justifying making light of things, just giving a reason why people do.
I started laughing 10 years ago.
I stopped laughing about 5 years ago.
If you aren't deadly serious at this point, you're way behind.
Sometimes you just have to laugh at clown world when you would otherwise feel helpless. And even before things got as bad as they are today, laughing was a defense mechanism for many people. The same way people will read a crime story and rationalize how they wouldn't be as stupid or caught off-guard as the victim, so they don't have to empathize or admit that they could be in the same situation and the world is a scary place.
I'm not really justifying making light of things, just giving a reason why people do.