I believe the meaning of Ernst's Thursday installment Blackness, is that all people who are merry do not care what others think and will do what they wish. however he also indicates that those who are merry will also die because of their lack of caring and merriment. From the illustrations it also seems that there is no shortage of dead which makes me think that there are still people who chose to me happy and are not concerned with consequences. At first others seem curious about the happiness as of others but soon the happy are dead.
It is also possible that the death represents other people in society or society itself killing people's happiness. The piece could easily be a social statement that people will go to any lengths to kill the happiness of others I they themselves are not happy.
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