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Most comedies-- I'm talking about your Big Bang Theories, or American Pies, or Judd Apatow fare--these are all anxiety inducing messes that will give you serious depression moreso than "sad" dramas like Joker or Taxi Driver. I'll give you a simple reason: comedy relies upon a very strong point-of-view of what's normal, and incels just don't make the cut.
Comedy is deceptively dangerous as a storytelling medium. Whereas dramas often have things like nuance, and empathy thrown in the mix, comedy oversimplifies things. People can't be complex, they have to be stereotypes. While simplicity is one important ingredient, so is timing/rhythm/expediency. Comedy can't fumble around in the way delicate dramas do. It has to hit you at a base, primal level or it won't make you laugh. People laugh not just because they hear something true, but because they know they are above that truth. I always hated the phase "comedy should always punch up." It's just not true. You always punch down. It's just a matter of perspective on who's really oppressed.
Because by the very simplistic, sound-bite nature of comedy- it makes it the perfect vehicle for propaganda. All the more deceptive, because the feeling at the moment is light, it's giddy, but the consequences of comedy over the long run is that someone's gonna get humiliated- and for too long incels have been the systemic victims of comedic humiliation.
And there's nothing we can do about it. Normies already have their normal. We already have ours. The two do not sync, nor will they ever come to a bridge. Unfortunately a huge part of being normal is being able to laugh along the herd. Can you really do that, sincerely, as a humiliated incel, to laugh along as they do??? Like puppets tethered to strings?? That's the hardest fucking part. To fucking laugh at the fool, when I just wanna shoot em all to defend the poor guy.
Comedy is deceptively dangerous as a storytelling medium. Whereas dramas often have things like nuance, and empathy thrown in the mix, comedy oversimplifies things. People can't be complex, they have to be stereotypes. While simplicity is one important ingredient, so is timing/rhythm/expediency. Comedy can't fumble around in the way delicate dramas do. It has to hit you at a base, primal level or it won't make you laugh. People laugh not just because they hear something true, but because they know they are above that truth. I always hated the phase "comedy should always punch up." It's just not true. You always punch down. It's just a matter of perspective on who's really oppressed.
Because by the very simplistic, sound-bite nature of comedy- it makes it the perfect vehicle for propaganda. All the more deceptive, because the feeling at the moment is light, it's giddy, but the consequences of comedy over the long run is that someone's gonna get humiliated- and for too long incels have been the systemic victims of comedic humiliation.
And there's nothing we can do about it. Normies already have their normal. We already have ours. The two do not sync, nor will they ever come to a bridge. Unfortunately a huge part of being normal is being able to laugh along the herd. Can you really do that, sincerely, as a humiliated incel, to laugh along as they do??? Like puppets tethered to strings?? That's the hardest fucking part. To fucking laugh at the fool, when I just wanna shoot em all to defend the poor guy.
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