Intensity Humor,

 

The humor which comes from our Embodied Language (EL) is not anything like the so-called humor we produce with our usual Disembodied Language (DL). People with DL can’t stand the humor of EL, because it slows them down. The fake-humor of DL is overwhelming and hyped-up, because in DL everyone is insensitive, dull and rough. Only extreme, exaggerated crap gets any attention. However, EL humor is mellow, kind, relaxed and peaceful, but people with DL can’t recognize it. Sometimes EL gets loud, because of the intensity of the person, who laughs at him or herself. Yes, laughing at ourselves is the best. 

 

Since there is so very little EL, there is only very little real humor going around. This is the reason we hardly laugh. The person, who doesn’t know the difference between their own DL and EL, cannot laugh about someone, like me, with EL. Only when they have stopped their own DL, can they laugh about my EL. Of course, our EL goes directly to the core of everything and, therefore, has its own intensity. To cut through all the DL-crap needs something sharp. It is the sound of the speaker’s voice, which has this necessary effect. Few people know, our tongue actually works like a whip, when we articulate our words clearly. In EL each word is articulated in the front of the mouth, so it is clear what the speaker says. In DL, by contrast, our voice is in the back of our mouth, because we are holding ourselves back, we are defensive and uptight.

 

When a person is drunk, he or she slurs and speaks with a thick tongue and when someone engages in DL, one is also drunk, but on words. Fixation on words is why we don’t listen to ourselves while we speak. We engage unconsciously in DL, in which we get carried away by what we say, and we don’t pay any attention to how we say it. The intensity of our voice is in its ability to express something which is true for all of us, something universal. Obviously, this has to do with being authentic and, we relate to it, as we can all be truly ourselves.     

 

We all know, that varying our voices when we speak, can express sarcasm or emotion and this can even change the meaning of what we are saying. We do this all the time during DL, when we try to sound nice, certain, strong, kind, interested, polite, knowledgeable, sincere, respectful, careful, happy, truthful, careless, motivated or open. During EL, however, we never try to sound like this or like that, as we simply sound how sound, when we are not trying to sound in any particular kind of way. It is this effortless quality of naturalness, which makes our voice have an intensity, which cannot be acted.   

 

I rather talk about the intensity of our speech, than use the academic word prosody or refer to the musical quality of speech. Music is not, as they say, the universal language, because only our EL is. In every language there is mostly DL and only a tiny bit of unconscious, accidental, brief EL. Our enthrallment with music, poetry, arts, sports, but also, with science, religion, politics, psychology, philosophy, science and economics, has distracted us from our ability to have EL. In fact, all of these presumably important activities are the replacement of real human interaction. In EL, we for the first time use our language correctly, as we realize our Language Enlightenment (LE). Yes, and once we have ongoing EL and become established in our LE, many things that kept us busy are unimportant.

 

Laughter and humor are inescapably tied to our vulnerability. Surely, we aren’t laughing as much as we could, because we fear that the intensity of humor changes our status. In DL, there is and there can only be, fake laughter, which is always preceded by a shift of status relative to others. During EL, on the other hand, nothing happens in comparison to others. Letting go - of control and fear - is irrelevant in EL and our genuine humor is always about ourselves and about that we are all, due to our history of conditioning, in the same DL-boat, which is sinking. Laughter might actually have evolved as a way of letting others know, that we basically all share the same vulnerabilities. 

 

In DL, we prefer to only talk about our status or rank, but in EL, we have no problem talking about our feelings, experience or our vulnerability. It is funny, in DL, we remain busy with others, but in EL, we finally can attend to who we are. This is the intensity of our EL, where we use our language correctly and speak about ourselves. We haven’t been able to do so, as we couldn’t speak about ourselves, as long as we were still concerned about the punitive, hurtful, negative opinions of others.  

 

In DL, the less vulnerable people are, the higher their status, but the more difficult or dangerous it is, to laugh about their disgusting, despicable, stupid behavior. There’s nothing new about the irrefutable fact, that the more vulnerable, have, historically, always been able to laugh much more, and they, definitely, have had more fun, than those who supposedly had a higher status. When a child screams, that the emperor has no clothes, all adults hear the truth, regardless of their so-called phony beliefs. This is the innocent intensity of EL.

 

With their usual DL, evolutionary psychologists continue to reason, that low-status individuals risk falling short of the basic requirements for reaching adulthood and propelling their genes into the distant future. However, only with EL, do we become high status – that is, free – individuals, who are least affected by potential obstacles in their physical and social environment. It is only because of our usual, unconscious, DL, that we view our vulnerability – our sensitivity – as the criterion, due to which we are programmed, to be keenly sensitive to even slightest change of status, both our own and others. Our attention keys in on any minor deviation from the status quo – such as the switch from DL to EL – however we might unknowingly define that state of affairs. Humor, the capacity to express or perceive what is funny, is used as a false means to cope with what is difficult and stressful. The fact is, we don't deal with anything in DL-humor, as we are merely distracted from who we really are. We have yet to account for the common fallacy, that our so-called humor helps us to cope with the difficult situations and stressful events which are part of our daily life. It is because we don't know how to stop our automatic, unnatural DL, that we exaggerate the supposed value of humor.