Oleg’s points is, there needs to be a grain of truth in the humor for it to be funny and “those who live in a different moral universe, feeding off different versions of the truth, will not be amused if jokes don’t strike them as true; nothing will surface”.
This is true, regardless your ideology. Liberals have a different morality (I’d say no morality) and believe in an alternative truth (I’d say falsehoods) than we Cubist, so I’m not surprised they would find The People’s Cube unfunny.
Regarding High Noon and McCarthyism: Yes Carl Foreman the screenwriter was a member of the American Communist Party and he was making a political statement about McCarthyism with the movie. That does not erase the theme of standing up against evil, even when it means going at it alone. Oleg using High Noon as a metaphor for his experiences is quite appropriate and accurate.
