I suggested that it might have to do with adversity. People who feel up against it sometimes develop a canny take on how the world works—the rawness of it, the absurdities—and sometimes, if they’re funny, they make fun of it.
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch.