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Ep. 14 - The Morality of Satire: Andrew Doyle and Stephen Blackwood

The Ralston College Podcast

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The Metaphysical Underpinning of Humor

Andrew Keen: There's a metaphysical underpinning to humor. To be able to laugh at something terrible that has happened to us, it is in a way to be able to reclaim our own wholeness from that tragedy. And if that is possible, it must mean that reality itself enables that reclaiming and that reality is not something a zero-sum thing looking to obliterate you.

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