Modern Humour

Only a few years ago, this little bit of humour would have gone over every one's head. I am sure that just in the last week you have seen examples of iPhone idiocy. The frantic texting, tweeting, instagramming, and pinteresting has become such a priority in life that there is an ad on TV where a mother suddenly looks up from her iPhone and realizes her child is missing. She puts down her phone and frantically looks for her child. Oblivious to the world around us, we text and twit ourselves into trouble. There are even laws against doing this while we drive. Doing it in the presence of friends is just plain bad manners, unless, of course, you are texting that friend. Now that is just dumb!

Dysfunction used to be a word used only in the most severe cases of abnormal behaviour. Today, everyone is dysfunctional. It is almost a badge of honour. It is being unique, different, standing out from the crowd, an attention getter, being true to yourself, and most important, an excuse. I remember when a dysfunctional family was one where there was a plethora of abuse, divorce, failure, violence, law-breaking, and general abnormality. Today, dysfunction is normal. We are all dysfunctional. It is the reason we are all screwed up, to one degree or another. Unless everything is perfect in your family and all your relationships are ideal, you too are dysfunctional. Give your friends a moment and they will be able to tell you why you are this way. It takes one to know one.

And therein lies the humour. There is so much dysfunction that it has lost its meaning. A normal person is now the one who is dysfunctional.