I don’t want to speak for everyone but I’ll say this for myself.
After being told for over 20 years that I should still be morning these people and for the same amount of time our foreign policy hasn’t gotten any better, in fact it’s worse just makes me angry. They died and we’re worse as a country for it. It makes me deeply sad, but at some point the sadness just became a bitter sense of humor I reckon as a defense mechanism so I didn’t truly descend into madness.
I don’t want to speak for everyone but I’ll say this for myself.
After being told for over 20 years that I should still be morning these people and for the same amount of time our foreign policy hasn’t gotten any better, in fact it’s worse just makes me angry. They died and we’re worse as a country for it. It makes me deeply sad, but at some point the sadness just became a bitter sense of humor I reckon as a defense mechanism so I didn’t truly descend into madness.
Or in other words, it jokerfied me.
Lollllll jokerfied. I think how you phrased this resonates with me. The anger and furiousness can only last so long so it turns to gallows humor.