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comedy is a way of opening the mind

Because otherwise you have cultures that are mired in their own ways of thinking--there's no development, there's no provocation to think differently. You have to provoke. You have to create a bit of uncertainty. Unless you believe that everything's perfect and that people shouldn't question th…

—p.145 The Point Issue 14 Things Don't Make Sense (136) by David Heti
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liberation short of offing the tyrant

But could there really be no liberation short of offing the tyrant? Is there not another species of emancipation in flights of the spirit, even if they change nothing in our material reality? The playing field of the imagination is infinite, after all. So even though humor forces us back into our h…

—p.122 Punching Down (117) missing author
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humor is a meditation upon death

[...] Humor is a meditation upon death. It is by this difference that we are best able to understand the nature of a life lived in the comic mode. The fact that I will not live two hundred years, let alone forever, is what is preventing me from writing my gelastical magnum opus. It is also what mak…

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