Oh Marike, this is a subject near and dear to my heart. In a negative way.
caveat; I am human and I have most of the same foibles that everyone else has.
Or is it a learned behavior, we laugh because our families laughed at such when we were growing up?
There is an American TV show "America's Funniest Videos"
Here, the average viewer is encouraged to film funny events in their lives and send them to the show for the chance of winning some prize money.
MANY of them are pretty funny, in a HUMOROUS way, but there are many if not most involve people falling on ice on their front steps or driveway, people forgetting their cars are in gear and having it roll away and crash when they get out, men getting hit in the groin by balls or other objects hit or thrown by children or pet.
When someone falls from a height of slips on ice, you KNOW there is going to be REAL pain and possibly REAL INJURY.
So why is this funny? It isn't. Not at all. Yet I too have a tendency to laugh, I guess because the video stops and the consequences are not revealed.
Would that make any difference? Probably not for the fat, money grubbing American public.
Thank you for this post, I hope it reaches the corners of the globe and we can all look inside to make POSITIVE growth changes
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I think you nailed it when you observed that the consequences aren't shown and we KNOW at some level that much of it is staged.
Humor is cultural too. I don't find much US humor really funny, but I DO often find the dried British comedy makes me laugh. It's drier and more about language and misunderstandings...
I think all growth starts with looking inside, whatever it is. Thanks so much for the reblog, the detailed response and the Hive love.
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Some years ago, before FB got hold of me, my relatives had an email string and would pass around video clips that they got from I know not where.
There was one about a bicycle thief, real video recorded. Seems bikes were being stolen routinely from this one area, so these fellows sabotaged a bicycle and left it there.
I don't remember exactly, but I think it had to do with the handlebars not being attached, and at the first bump they came loose from the frame.
The thief would pitch forward, and could have easily been impaled on the steering post, and at the very least since it had a cross bar (from seat to the handlebars, unlike a girls bike from back in the day) the thief also got a couple of small round objects forced up from his groin to his throat, if you get my meaning.
What goes around comes around, and a thief is a thief, but call the damned cops, you got him on video, why risk his life and health over a bicycle?
Ouch. Now see I would NOT find that funny, even if it was a thief being impaled. But I'm not american. ;)