What’s worse than the insincerity of comedy as a response to the grave? The performance of sincerity. Unsolicited, self-serving gestures of moral goodness; the arrogance of assuming one’s offers, made “in good faith,” are what the sick, suffering and dying want and need. Worse still is the offence felt by the good-giver when their well-meaning gestures don’t land as expected. Melanie Jame Wolf…
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