The Relationship Between Comedy, Democracy, and AI
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"Humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds," Viktor Frankl wrote in recalling the role of humor as a lifeline to sanity and survival in the Holocaust. Humor is a fundamental human freedom: To laugh is to protect ourselves from all that dehumanizes us — tyranny and transactionalism, captivity and commodification. Humor is also fundamental to free societies, to freedom of thought, to democracy: To laugh together is to harmonize our deepest humanity. Because humor is the art of surprise,… read article
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