Nancherla's article raises an important question about the craft of comedy: Is it a comedian's mission to simply follow what's funny and make people laugh in the name of ignoring more complex and difficult truths?
Indeed, the resentment about immigration and difference on which Ukip trades is the rawest example of something that runs through just about every major political issue: a sense that most politicians know far too little of people's lives, have for too long ignored their more difficult aspects, and only ever come running when it's far too late.
Expression of Ki-67, as a measure of cellular proliferation, has the benefit of enabling stromal cells to be ignored, which is more difficult in analysis of S phase with flow cytometry.
Are you ignoring or avoiding some more difficult task that's actually tied to your success, in favor of idling on social media websites, gaining "followers" who will never become customers, and planning for realities way off in the distance rather than focusing on the here-and-now?
eMarketer reports that millennials choose to ignore ads, making it more difficult to catch their attention.
But, if Mike Mussina does the smothering, will the underdog Twins lose their swagger and have a more difficult time ignoring 14 losses in a row?
Given this, it is surprising how startup executives often make a tough task more difficult by ignoring some rules of fundraising.
While most Americans have never felt the pain and indignity of foreign occupation or the religious fervor that drives so many radicals, insurgents, and terrorists, we all share a planet where the consequences of our collective disregard for the environment are becoming more and more difficult to ignore.
Though they can be ignored for a while, eventually those environmental costs translate directly into economic costs as it becomes more difficult to ignore their impacts on our societies.
The consequences are becoming more difficult to ignore.
