Comedian Rodney Dangerfield’s famous schtick was his oft-repeated line, “I tell ya, I get NO RESPECT, no respect at all!!” The majority of his jokes were all about how absurd his life was. Funny stuff, but was it also inadvertently serving the interloper agenda? Humor can indeed be weaponized to attack and drag people down. What is Creator’s perspective?

We would agree that this is very much the case, that what passes for humor is often a calculated manipulation to shape and manipulate human thinking and beliefs. If you are in a culture and grow up believing it is appropriate to laugh at someone who fails, laugh at someone who makes a mistake, or even encounters a kind of unexpected hardship of some kind and falls by the wayside, that is a kind of tragedy and not truly a laughing matter, certainly not to the person who trips and falls, for example, only to have a crowd of people laughing. So to turn this into an industry where the whole focus is on a series of people doing goofy things, showing they are not very bright, not at all skilled or experienced for the task at hand and make mistake after mistake after mistake, or suffer a series of wild miscalculations in misjudging distances and use a ladder that is too short or bend over too far and then fall from a height, or go through a doorway carrying something tall and this results in a comedic moment of dishevelment, all such things are a demonstration of misfortune and it is a cynical perspective to find humor at the expense of someone. This is so conditioned culturally, the public spectacles in human gatherings where such things can happen from time to time, and certainly those things where it is an intentional part of a plot or a production, whether a play or a motion picture, where audiences will, in effect, be trained to laugh at other human beings and their travails, this does shape thinking and also influences morality itself and the ethical considerations in play, always, in how one conducts themselves around other people. This cheapens human existence, it dulls the senses, and makes people "less human," meaning, "less better than an animal" because they are not showing a divine component which is normal makeup and display when humans are at their best, and unexpressed when humans are corrupted or the standards are lowered through a process of conditioning and undermining to make people more coarse, petty, cynical, and arrogant in judging others.