underrated lens for long-term thinking: long-term jokes

e.g. facts that stretch hundreds or thousands of years which, viewed together in retrospect, deliver something funny

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e.g. repeated patterns of behaviour, like how socrates' complaints about the next generation (lazy, read too much) are so similar to sentiments from hundreds of years ago, and also today.

What's an example?

Funny things are 100% underrated as a green flag.