The laughter philosophy:
The Greek philosopher Democritus was always laughing and ridiculing everything, so much so that he was known as the laughing philosopher. Legend has it that he was laughing so constantly that people thought him crazy, so they took him to the father of medicine, Hippocrates, for treatment. Hippocrates sat down with Democritus to examine him and talk to him. After a long time, he came out to people with a medical diagnosis of his condition. He said that he is not crazy at all, but that his laughter is evidence that he is the most wise and serious person, and an understanding of the paradoxes and contradictions of this life.
Violence was a natural behavior in ancient times, nature is cruel and uncontrollable, resources are few, and tribes change each other, to monopolize scarce materials. In these eras anger, violence, and strength were the advantages of survival, and ferocity in killing enemies was something to be proud of. In this atmosphere we can imagine the hungry caveman laughing happy because he found his food, while his prey writhes in pain from the spear embedded in her body.
Was laughter born in such a bloody moment?
Freud believed that irony was born from the womb of cruelty, and that it was an expression of brutality and violence. We laugh at other people’s misfortunes and stumbles to make us feel okay. We laugh at people who slip in a banana peel because it’s not us. And we laugh at the hero of the embarrassing situation that the naive hero of the movie is exposed to because we are not in his place. This kind of laughter flirts with a primitive part of our minds, when laughter was an expression of aggression, cruelty and arrogance.
But the sense of humor developed with the development of civilized and psychological human being. In civilized societies it is no longer appropriate to laugh at someone who suffers and suffers. But we may do this quite comfortably if this person is fictional, such as the hero of a tale, a joke, an actor in a comic, etc., because it is not real. Today we no longer look at ridicule as the ancients did.
Sarcasm helps a person to bear pain, it leads to optimism, and optimism leads to improving immunity and endurance. When we laugh at a problem, it is no longer a frightening thing, and it is easy for us to face it and deal with it with the least possible emotional damage. Sarcasm is not an escape. Escape is to avoid thinking about it at all. While sarcasm requires an awareness of the problem, and looking at it in a way that mitigates it, so that a person can face it afterwards.
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