Because Space Sharks!
Why not? I'm wearing a tee shirt today that has a cute graphic of sharks wearing glass 'fishbowl' style helmets and swimming with asteroids and stars. It's improbably impossible, of course. But it's cute. The human brain will put up with a lot of impossible things before breakfast, given they are cute, or funny, or possibly both. I was thinking about this yesterday, as one of my coworkers teased me about being a witchy woman gathering herbs - which reminds me to get a bundle of sage for another coworker. I am not, strictly speaking, an herbalist. The more I learn over the years, the less I think that using herbs in preference to modern medicine is wise or safe. I see people online advocating stuff that makes me cringe. Someone is going to die - already has, if you look at the cases. But it's funny to joke about collecting herbs and casting spells, so we do. Because the modern image of witch is a cute lil' thing in a black hat with a broom and a cat, a'la Studio Ghibli.
But I digress. This was supposed to be about nonsense, and it's place in the world to break up the harshness of reality. Life can be a bitter dose of medicine, if you walk into it with eyes open and ready to learn. The cat pictures of the internet are the antidote to that. Humor is a buffer that keeps the buffets of disappointment and discouragement from breaking us. Send in the cute!
We live in a world of polarized opinions, internet mobs of hate, and the daily grind that wears away at our souls an hour at a time. I would argue that cat memes, and space sharks, and the delightful nonsensical notions of the likes of Lewis Carroll and Ogden Nash (who deserves to be better remembered) save us all from plunging into the darkest gloom. Sometimes I want to surround myself with beautiful things. Other times, I want to coo and giggle like a child over the silly stuff.
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