Article Club: Is this the end of seriousness? (lol)

Everything’s a meme these days. We react to a never-ending stream of bad news with a 🙄, an “everything is fine” burning cartoon dog and an LOL. In her New Yorker article, Lauren Michele Jackson asks, is this “The End of Seriousness”? Using humor to deflect or deal with hard things is nothing new. But have the interwebs made us numb to seriousness? 

Read along with the article here: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-lede/the-end-of-seriousness

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Article Club: Is this the end of seriousness? (lol)
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