2/ It feels like modern (cable-TV era) humor began with identity humor, whether explicit (say Apu) or implicit (people in Florida who leave turn indicators on = old people). It was mostly self-directed in amirite style.
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I don't know how to position it in your frame, but I think the root 'postulate' of nihilistic humour is "we're trapped inside a joke...but in order to be trapped *in something* we must exist" It's a Cartesian game, maybe?
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1/Most of the time I see nihilistic humor as a coping mechanism for not trusting anyone or anything; to make oneself feel better for not taking emotional risks. In tune with our times, for sure, but there’s something cowardly about that (although maybe that’s too harsh).
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2/Sometimes though, it comes from a self-awareness that recognizes that we all are more or less screwed in our own way. The humor is then a joke between two people who mutually recognize that fact in the other. No one gets out alive so let’s drop the bs and laugh about that.
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