My investigations into humor have lead me to the conclusion that if there really were an alien from another planet forced to endure the conditions of modern society on Earth without having a sense of humor to process those challenges, he would have been more than just mildly confused. He would have gone mad. He might have tried to kill us. In fact it seems unlikely that civilized life could have ever existed had we not developed such a sophisticated ability to calibrate our emotional responses. Our ancestors survived because of their ability to ruthlessly hunt down prey and kill enemies, and now we are expected to take the minds and bodies we’ve inherited from them to sit in cubicles and wait in line at the bank and sit still at the dentist’s office. This progression would have been a lot more difficult if we hadn’t learned to laugh.
That's all. (the end)
That's all. (the end)
That's all. (the end)
My investigations into humor have lead me to the conclusion that if there really were an alien from another planet forced to endure the conditions of modern society on Earth without having a sense of humor to process those challenges, he would have been more than just mildly confused. He would have gone mad. He might have tried to kill us. In fact it seems unlikely that civilized life could have ever existed had we not developed such a sophisticated ability to calibrate our emotional responses. Our ancestors survived because of their ability to ruthlessly hunt down prey and kill enemies, and now we are expected to take the minds and bodies we’ve inherited from them to sit in cubicles and wait in line at the bank and sit still at the dentist’s office. This progression would have been a lot more difficult if we hadn’t learned to laugh.