The perfect support amps would be like the perfect product. Sadly with language and encouragement life brings increased complexity. Random combinations show more possibilities – for both good and bad.
Words in combination matter. Words in combination are not always perfect. Amplifying words like they are ideal value are likely to be ideal value always seems like it can create the opposite effect. Expectation of perfect will fail, thus attempting to try to polish and turn the screws tighter and tighter until the words sparkle like gold or silver might be more like a Frankenstein or Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde in practice. Works great until it doesn’t, and all the days it works great makes people less graceful and less forgiving for days, and words that are deemed less desirable.
I think humor has potential to bring more flex, it also has the potential to be used in a mean way, a mean way that might be inspired or deemed no big deal when in the pursuit of profit. Someone tells a joke about a member of another team, might reinforce you are a member of a team (profitable) and are not part of the other team (profitable), might reinforce your strength (profitable) and their weakness (profitable), is a practice in communication and interpersonal relations, sells (profitable), reinforces trust and leaves communication channels open (profitable). Profit is bad? Sounds like something the other team would say. They must not want to win. An example of how competition and profit combined with humor might not always lead to ideal combination of words, ideal paths and direction taken (if one considers Golden Rule, Love your neighbor, and trying to reinforce a society less filled with malice).
All that said I would prefer humor and comedians to be on my team – if you can’t beat them join em. That said people on professional sports teams or similar environments like separate corporations or universities might lead to division masked as healthy competition that makes capitalism shine. We start to build divides between fellow citizens without even trying to – if one doesn’t like competition they must be a communist? I can like capitalism, see the value in competitive corporations inspiring a better future (in a free market, where they aren’t teams behind the scenes raking in billions in profit while leaving the underprivileged on the street).
Getting humor right in serious times? Will there ever not be serious times truly in this World? We have 8 billion plus people and population is likely to grow over time. That means there is more potential for always bad things happening – wars, people dying of cancer, people not making peace swiftly and profiting while many suffer. March to a better future seems worth turning up – not sure requirement to be serious will ideal support for all. Less of a big deal, less serious at times is freeing to actually concentrate on and solve the problem. Raise the stakes life and death on the line, years of unforgiveness on the line is likely to lead to excess liability – risk that would be actively worth mitigating by reduced proximity and is thus not all wise to turn up.
If I am in trouble I might want seriousness, people taking me serious to fix the problem – not because I want them to stop laughing, have their life robbed of all joy and encouraging moments. Situations like homelessness and fatigue have potential to lead to awkward moments – if people laugh at me and are still trying to help me less of a big deal than just laughing at me.
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