The Hairy Beast: this article wasn’t intended to be funny or entertaining. I wrote it to share an earnest observation of what divides people in their reaction to humor. In my analysis, it happens to be the same thing that divides people’s reaction to the truth. You can agree with it or not; there’s nothing funny about that.
Another thing that this article wasn’t intended to do is, to defend the funniness of the People’s Cube or to explain why it’s supposed to be funny. That would be a really stupid thing to do. The growing membership of the Cube and long threads of comments that often span on several pages is an objective measure of its success.
You have surely noticed that I’m not even trying to sound funny on this thread. I’m used to coming to Pajamas Media in a serious frame of mind whenever I feel I need to cool down.
