A good measure of cultural fragmentation is how far on average a joke has to travel out of context for it to cause offense
When jokes hit a mean free path of one degree on social graph you’ve hit anarchy
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You think professional stand ups are the arbiter of the state of humor. I’m beginning to understand where you’re coming from.
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Humor is part of the fabric of everyday life, not a profession. I can see how far my own humor goes in different directions.
Appealing to the authority of comedians for humor is like appealing to the authority of musicians for ambient sounds
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Dude you’re the one claiming we’re at zero mean free path for jokes which is clearly not the case because I can *see* jokes traveling farther all the time. Pro comedy is irrelevant here. Stage humor does not determine cultural fragmentation levels.
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Clearer example: are we in an obesity epidemic/healthcare crisis? By your logic, no, because Olympic athletes are healthier and fitter than ever.
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I don’t know about you but I wasn’t looking for humor here. I have no trouble finding humor when I want it.
I’ve had you tagged as ‘gloomy’ from our first interaction (which is fine, I like sentimental variety in my stream)
Dunno, but not zero. I’ve not personally felt constrained in writing the kinds of funny blog posts or tweets I’ve wanted to.
What I think is happening is that some people are gaining and others are being constrained, with net increase in humor. Just not from the same old crowd.
I suspect white guys self-censoring has created more space for humor from other groups than it has kept out of circulation tbf, so your experience sounds like a net good thing to me
