I don't think you would ever lose a concept like 'aboveness' - even if that word didn't exist in our language, we would have found away to express the same idea, perhaps in a less abstract way like 'closer to the sky'
this happens to MMO servers too, I used to play the game DOFUS years ago and it was one of my favorite places on the internet when first started but then people left the game as they grew up and it was gradually taken over by bots and scammers until it got merged with another server
With some of them you notice it straight away like the woman with something sticking out of a hole in her cheek:
https://fb.pics/image/38yjt
and the woman with the mutilated left ear:
https://fb.pics/image/380UC
and the child with the adult eye bags:
https://fb.pics/image/38Jva
One thing it almost always does wrong is glasses.
https://fb.pics/image/38NNu
And apart from pictures of young children, most of them have strange vertical wrinkles under the eyes, even when everything else is relatively convincing.
IMHO Steven Wright was more consistently funny than Mitch Hedberg.
"Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus, or just a really cool Opotamus?" - Mitch Hedberg.
Louis CK (in the leaked set) presented himself as transgressive since he was playing the part of a victimized white male who can punch up at snowflakes. Nothing he says is extremely controversial though except perhaps the 'asians are women' line, and at this point you can actually hear groans in the audience
"An individual human existence should be like a river — small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being."
"But, above this, there is still a higher state, to which Goethe achieves, the Olympian. He understands that originality limits, that by being personal he is simply anyone. And by letting himself live in things, like Pan, everywhere, he thrusts aside all limits until he no longer has any but those of the world itself. He becomes banal, but in a superior way.
It is dangerous to achieve too early that superior banality. If one does not absorb everything, one loses oneself completely. The mind must be greater than the world and contain it, or else it is pitifully dissolved and is no longer even original."