Why the Void Laughs: Humor as Armor
By RigidTacoCat • Updated regularly
Dark humor isn’t cruelty — it’s X-ray vision. It peels back pretension and points to the absurd things we all quietly notice but rarely name. Laughter is how we keep curiosity alive when the world insists on certainty.
Jokes survive where slogans don’t because jokes invite you in. They’re participatory; your brain fills a gap and gets a tiny reward. That reward is momentum — the same momentum you need to question, to create, to resist the flattening pressure of “be normal.”
Humor is armor, not a weapon. It lets you walk into the noise without absorbing it. It shows you the edges of a problem while keeping your heart intact. That’s why we keep laughing at the void: not to deny the darkness, but to see through it.