132 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 23 Jun \ on: How Does Our Sense of Humor Change With Age? A Statistical Analysis mostly_harmless
If my humor has changed it’s that I enjoy absurdity more. When sense and seriousness are overpriced, it needs the smack of nonsense most, stripping its artifices, demanding we establish sense from scratch. It’s a great test of how much we’re hiding from the terror of randomness and things beyond our control.
This might be consistent with the findings, as absurdity is a kind of self-enhancing, although not really an incongruity resolving, humor.
I've always liked absurdism, but I definitely think my taste within the genre(?) has matured (I still love, say, absurdist cartoons, but it took me a while to appreciate Ianesco and Beckett).
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