Humor Is a Marker of What's Underneath the Surface

There are ways to express your discontent with the regime or with a new system, but you have to do it in a way that is subtle. And one of the ways you can do it is through humor. Humor is used in repressive societies and in contects where people feel constrained in what they can say. In laughing, they signal that they understand what is being communicated, but don't take ownership for it....