Do jokes become less funny as they age ? My opinion is yes, as, oftentimes, an old show or film will only make me remember how I was so floored by it, or were it older, only inspire a tender respectful feeling for the arts of a different time.
To go way way back, there was the Philogelos, a compilation of jokes passed down from antiquity. With few exceptions, the jokes therein seem to inspire not so much of chuckles as a sense of how the working of the mind has so profoundly changed with time, so that those jokes might just as well be a kind of benchmark that tells how we humans have truly evolved, today a race quite distinct from our forebears.
There is an argument that says humans don't evolve. When a species reaches a certain stage, they protect the less fit members, and thus they survive to procreate.
Not everyone agrees - but they have a novel definition for evolution.
I've seen that too. But while the 'less fit' procreate, the 'fit' just stop and watch ?
Regardless, the coming changes in human thoughts and methodologies will be so fast and furious they will be tsunami compared to any puny genes-based evolution that our experts have spent so much ink and hot air over. These big changes will happen within individual lifetimes, and will practically make new species out of us even as we watch.
Where the future is concerned, Evolution à la Darwin won't be worth debating any more; it's not right or wrong, just moot.
Robert said
I've seen that too. But while the 'less fit' procreate, the 'fit' just stop and watch ?
Where the future is concerned, Evolution à la Darwin won't be worth debating any more; it's not right or wrong, just moot.,
The "fit" use birth-control; the disabled can't afford it.
Everything I learned in high school and most I learned on college is now wrong. Genetics is only half the story as we have eugenics, And I was taught there were only three states of matter, that faster-than-light was impossible, that matter and energy were conserved, and time was one-way. I'm moot.
Beg to differ on the moot part. Learned is one who unlearns.