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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Having to be self-aware enough to do a context-check before making a joke is not an anti-humor culture. It’s a level-up because it allows more people the same freedom. If your relationship depth in the context allows you to make a joke, by all means do so.
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My original cultural fragmentation point is actually a relationship depth point. We inhabit smaller and smaller micromilieus where we have enough relationship capital depth to be uninhibited in our humor.
This is a relating skills problem not a humor problem. Context collapse.
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