Text-based art – ban humour.

Jokes are no joke.

A piece of text based art on the subject of humour.

Humour can sometimes rely on qualities such as insult, sarcasm and ridicule in order to achieve its humorous effect, sometimes aimed at individual people. These qualities may be frowned upon by some people who may think that they are socially unacceptable.

The qualities of insult, sarcasm and ridicule are particularly prevalent in political humour, where an individual politician, a political party or a political ideology may be being criticised or attacked.

In the current heightened moral climate of the 2020s practically any form of humour that is aimed at people can be interpreted as being offensive if people want to perceive it as such, therefore it’s only a relatively small step before the concept of banning humour becomes a possibility. After all, humour can be seen as a form of aggression, and who in their right mind wouldn’t want to ban aggression (except when exhibited in specific highly controlled contexts such as sport of course)?

It’s not as far fetched as you might think. There are places in the world and places in history that have seen music banned after all.