This is something I think about a lot. I saw an ad for a grand piano in one of the newspapers I was looking through and was just struck by how incongruous it was with the dire headlines surrounding it. But I also reflect on how this manifests in our own time. I'm learning it's exhausting to be sad and stressed literally all of the time, and I feel like I can understand this tactic a little better, and maybe judge it a little less (even if it means my primary sources are less rich because of it)