It’s easy to come across nihilistic humor in the modern age. When the majority of the planet is anti-capitalist in some form or another, it’s inevitable to encounter conceited laughter as this anti-capitalist soup curdles into the competing social movements of a revolutionary situation. It requires no reading or practice to lob jokes at capitalism, especially when the criteria for a joke can be as low as stating the possible demise of our civilization in an equally fatalistic and jovial tone. In effect, jokes in this current are an escapist form of entertainment aimed at coping with the real psychological strain of transient historical conditions. The joke can only appear as such because the absurdity of capitalism’s inner relations forces itself on those suffering from its lingering existence. When we turn the clock back, comedy returns into tragedy as the palpable necessity of capitalism’s dominion robs the situation of inner absurdity.
The Dialectic of Laughter
The Dialectic of Laughter
The Dialectic of Laughter
It’s easy to come across nihilistic humor in the modern age. When the majority of the planet is anti-capitalist in some form or another, it’s inevitable to encounter conceited laughter as this anti-capitalist soup curdles into the competing social movements of a revolutionary situation. It requires no reading or practice to lob jokes at capitalism, especially when the criteria for a joke can be as low as stating the possible demise of our civilization in an equally fatalistic and jovial tone. In effect, jokes in this current are an escapist form of entertainment aimed at coping with the real psychological strain of transient historical conditions. The joke can only appear as such because the absurdity of capitalism’s inner relations forces itself on those suffering from its lingering existence. When we turn the clock back, comedy returns into tragedy as the palpable necessity of capitalism’s dominion robs the situation of inner absurdity.