Yes, love that song… Righteous indignation is required in our less than perfect world, and fuels activism and, hopefully, change. But, if we are not careful, it can also sour into smaller and darker ways of being and addiction to dissent.
Oh, world of paradoxes. So much to say & so much more that cannot be said…
Love the Niels Bohr quote! Those physicists are some of the best philosophers.
Bohr: Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
Wittgenstein: Some things are so serious, we must pass over them in silence.
Surely I am mis-remembering those quotes, but I always hoped Bohr got it right, because I tend toward Dark Humor and laughing when things get too crazy/desperate/beyond salvage.
I’m the sane way & believe jokes/laughter keep us sane and saves lives.
A sense of humor is a sense of proportion.
—Gibran