Are people too serious?

I believe we have gotten so culturally fragmented that we live fearful lives. You can't laugh at yourself or anyone else if there is no sense of security. A cohesive culture has a shared set of beliefs which supplies security to it's members. Beliefs and ideas could be examined by thought and humor. In early cultures, outsiders joined the cultural group by behaving like the group or by making fun of their ways to show the different behavior was not something to fear. If you can't examine different cultural behavior by thought and humor, the prodominate culture continues to fear what they don't understand. If the new people to the culture make no effort to be part of the larger culture, but expect their ways to be take up by the larger culture,(multi-culturalism)the dominate culture disappears and tribal groups evolve. Fear of all the other tribes grows. Humor disappears and tribal wars break out. (see what is happening in the middle east or any major american city) In major cities, gangs or tribal groups try to provide a sense of security for a section of the city for that ethnic group. To maintain control, they defend boundries and are in a constant state of war. Long want to say, the less we have in common, the more fear there is. The more fear of your neighbor, the less humor exists. If I can't make fun of your behavior without being a bigot and degraded, the more I will fear you.

yeah i agree take time to listen to the song PRICE TAG by Jessie J... its very nice the lyrics is about people getting so serious with their life.

I agree with you. I have a way of using sarcasm to ease tention. Not a good thing. Some people get defensive and others just have no sense of humor. It's unfortunate. I think joking around is a good way to get people to ease up little. However, now days people get defensive about everything. It's actually unbelievable. I don't quite understand the rules on Mylot. Some of the discussions that are deleted, I think are fine. Then some of the discussion I believe should be deleted because they are racist in my opinion stay posted. Makes no sense to me. Maybe someone could enlighten me on this matter. Best Wishes!

i know that i am a very serious person and have strived to find some form of humour within my stolid soul but to no avail. i think there are far to many people like me and it does make the world a greyer place. i formed a Dour club for people like me to meet up every Sunday and we discuss ways to losen up but i quit after the first week as it was very depressing. i guess this has a lot to do with my job as a clown. i am not very good at clowning. i hate having to travel to work on a 20 ft tall unicycle. i hate the fact that when i put my shoes under the bed the heels wedge the door open. i wish i could smile and laugh more but i really cannot be arsed.

If you believe me then I belong to that catagory of people and reason is not a simple one.Not more then three years I used to call life a troublesome cup to take in.People arround me weren't so kind to let me differentiate between a joke and realistic condition.I used to be called as owner of "slowed down" version of human nature,having almost "unbent point of view".That appeared a slow poison to me.Already having a weak understanding of human nature,the mind games played by people with me turned out fatal for me.After few months I was totally unable to differtiate between a "parody" and a "actuality". That was a sharp blow to my feelings.Hardly two or three days after completion of my so called "torture period",I almost stopped to believe on people.Whatever could be reality,everybody before me appeared as a liar to me.Seems like everybody is playing with me. The lines written above might be showing my pessimistic view towards life but that's all how I was made and how I started taking everything serious in my life!

I know I am one of those people who has a tendency to take things too seriously. I find it hard not to take a even a light joke personally because I have been bullied and teased in the past, and everytime someone makes a joke like that it reminds me of what I went through.

I know some people that do take things to seriously and you can never have any fun with them and they are always criticizing what you say but on the other hand alot more people it does not matter what you say to them they are always ok with it. I think people need to lighten up and not be to concerned about what people are saying about them.

I definitely understand where you're coming from. A lot of times people get offended at jokes you make or if you're sarcastic. I know my mom absolutely hates it when I'm sarcastic and she gets very annoyed. I used to be very sarcastic but now, not so much. Too many people would give me weird looks and then I'd have to explain to them that it was sarcasm. So now, I'm only sarcastic around friends that I know understand my sarcasm or that are sarcastic themselves. Otherwise, it's just too complicated because so many people don't have a sense of humor or they don't like/understand sarcasm.

people are too serious in today's society because of the fact that life is getting harder and harder each day,so people tentatively try to protect everything that they have even their integrity.

I think a joke is one thing and I think jokes are great. However, when it does hurt someone's feelings I think it crosses the line of not being a joke anymore... If someone in life is embarrassed by their teeth and someone constantly makes fun of their teeth, hurtful. If they trip over their own two feet and someone makes a joke about it, not so serious. To me, there is a HUGE difference. I try to respect other people's feelings when joking... =)