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In two days, it will once again be April 1. A holiday based on cruelty, where hoaxes, lies and tricks that would be considered unacceptable any other day of the year are laughed off. Where you get censured for not just going along with the "fun", even when you were the butt of the joke.
Needless to say, I don't care for any of it. It's the emotional equivalent of having a holiday based around hitting people with baseball bats, and it's all okay as long as you don't actually kill anyone.
Even leaving aside the likelihood that it started as an expression of religious intolerance (picking on people who insisted on celebrating the start of the year with spring instead of January 1), it has become a sort of anti-Christmas. Instead of a day when you're supposed to love one another all the more, it's a day when you're sneered at for not being amused at the humiliation of others (or yourself!).
Making things worse, most people can't come up with a GOOD prank, a FUNNY hoax, to save their lives. So you can't even laugh at it for reasons other than schadenfruede...joy at the pain of others. The internet is flooded with the weakest of japes, the most overwrought of hoaxes, and the signal to noise ratio (never high to begin with) plummets.
Fools, all of them.
Needless to say, I don't care for any of it. It's the emotional equivalent of having a holiday based around hitting people with baseball bats, and it's all okay as long as you don't actually kill anyone.
Even leaving aside the likelihood that it started as an expression of religious intolerance (picking on people who insisted on celebrating the start of the year with spring instead of January 1), it has become a sort of anti-Christmas. Instead of a day when you're supposed to love one another all the more, it's a day when you're sneered at for not being amused at the humiliation of others (or yourself!).
Making things worse, most people can't come up with a GOOD prank, a FUNNY hoax, to save their lives. So you can't even laugh at it for reasons other than schadenfruede...joy at the pain of others. The internet is flooded with the weakest of japes, the most overwrought of hoaxes, and the signal to noise ratio (never high to begin with) plummets.
Fools, all of them.
