Most laughter isn't because something is funny.
Humans are laughing by the age of four months and then progress from tickling to the Three Stooges to more sophisticated triggers for laughter (or, in some inexplicable cases, to Jim Carrey movies). Laughter can be used cruelly to reinforce a group’s solidarity and pride by mocking deviants and insulting outsiders, but mainly it’s a subtle social lubricant. It’s a way to make friends and also make clear who belongs where in the status hierarchy.
These folk are profoundly uncomfortable. I wonder why...
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Body Language
Not just the laughter - the closed positions - the holding of one's SELF - and then the giggles. If you were "lower class" you would not have noticed all of this Mr. Prometheus. Stop stealing their fire.
Coincidentally, a very good friend of mine diagnosed this condition (while in undergrad - probably over a brew or 2) as hebephrenia. Some things never change.
"King and chief probably had a big beef; 'Cause of that now I grit my teeth." - Chuck D.
And to think these are the
And to think these are the people who badger Obama for being elitist.
Juxtapose
Now that was an awesome juxtaposition, P6. Well done!