The Repression of Humor

When we laugh, our ability to laugh at ourselves is it is really to surrender our own sense of ourselves in the hope and in the belief that one can have a greater and deeper sense of oneself. And there's an acknowledgement of the ego and an acknowledgement of that which we have been socialized out of. To hate anyone, anyone who has invested so much in their own sense of righteousness cannot afford to be laughed at. That's why I think that the repression of humor is part and parcel of this underlying nihilism.