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Metaphysical Milkshake with Rainn & Reza

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Humor Helps Us Survive

i love it when you bring up this concept of, like, evolutionarily, why is there humor in our consciousness and in the human psyche and character? Why is there humor? I mean, wolverines don't have humor, ris like, and they're doing just fine. But i think, you know, it it helps us survive. Thinks you know itit whatever it is, it breaks tension. It's a coping mechanism. It connects us. It bonds us. It helped survive. Maybe human beings would not be where we are to day, on the threshold of epocalypse, without humour. And hopeful humor can carry us forward through some very assuredly difficult decades and

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