Hijacking Humour
Humor typically consists of part truth and part absurdity.
I really like humour and things that make me laugh (as we all do I'm sure).
But humour has a side we need to be aware of. Humour causes us to let our guard down.
Humous has been used to introduce ideas that would normally be absurd, into mainstream thinking. The absurdity is slipped in with some truth and because it's funny, the ideas can often become accepted. The ideas we would reject being presented simply as a cold hard fact, suddenly become a whole lot more palatable when mixed with some absurdity.
Humous can be a Trojan horse of sorts.
So be careful what we laugh at and accept as funny. Because chances are those are the things you will start adopting into your thinking as acceptable.
I really like humour and things that make me laugh (as we all do I'm sure).
But humour has a side we need to be aware of. Humour causes us to let our guard down.
Humous has been used to introduce ideas that would normally be absurd, into mainstream thinking. The absurdity is slipped in with some truth and because it's funny, the ideas can often become accepted. The ideas we would reject being presented simply as a cold hard fact, suddenly become a whole lot more palatable when mixed with some absurdity.
Humous can be a Trojan horse of sorts.
So be careful what we laugh at and accept as funny. Because chances are those are the things you will start adopting into your thinking as acceptable.
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