```json
{
    "title": "SCIENTIFIC PROOF: Inability to understand sarcasm indicates brain damage!",
    "url": "https://performancezen.com/2005/05/24/scientific-proof-inability-to-understand-sarcasm-indicates-brain-damage/",
    "datePublished": "2005-05-24",
    "dateModified": "2005-05-24",
    "language": "en-US",
    "description": "Ok, provocative title out of the way. Referencing article here. More provocative body text: if a lack of sarcasm indicates that a portion of the human mind is not working…",
    "author": "spierzchala",
    "publisher": "Performance Zen"
}
```

# SCIENTIFIC PROOF: Inability to understand sarcasm indicates brain damage!

Ok, provocative title out of the way. Referencing article [here](http://semanticcompositions.typepad.com/index/2005/05/scs_brain_mappe.html).
More provocative body text: if a lack of sarcasm indicates that a portion of the human mind is not working correctly, then the vast majority of native-born US citizens suffer from this affliction.
I have a hard time living in a society where a fine degree of sarcasm in not appreciated by so many people. I grew up in a culture where sarcasm and self-deprecation were the foundations of humour.
Maybe I am just missing the finer, more subtle, points of US culture.