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It is said we use humor to cope, to experience a sense of relief and so on. I could cite Freud but my grandmother said it more eloquently "if we don't laugh, we cry."

Or, to use an embittered proverb my grandmother used to mutter at the evening news, “They asked the Pharaoh, ‘Who made you a pharaoh?’ He replied, ‘no one stopped me.’”

-to indulge in guilt. But it is an unproductive sentiment, it does not start revolutions. Guilt, imposes itself like a nagging cavity, you are acutely aware of its presence but you continue to shovel the same sweets into your mouth, until your teeth rot. Until you self-destruct.