Okay just looking at this now I realise I’ve failed to heed my own advice, there’s one style of “humour” that doesn’t involve multiple levels of awareness and is very common among joyless ideologues, which is the style of mean spirited mockery, vicious down-putting of out-groups.
It kind of rises into proper humour if you exaggerate it to the point of ridiculousness, and it’s my impression that the people who do that are also comfortable with self mocking and silly humour, and are capable of talking amiably with people not on “their side”.
Okay just looking at this now I realise I’ve failed to heed my own advice, there’s one style of “humour” that doesn’t involve multiple levels of awareness and is very common among joyless ideologues, which is the style of mean spirited mockery, vicious down-putting of out-groups.
It kind of rises into proper humour if you exaggerate it to the point of ridiculousness, and it’s my impression that the people who do that are also comfortable with self mocking and silly humour, and are capable of talking amiably with people not on “their side”.