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376. Truth and Adventure as an Antidote to Suffering | Douglas Murray
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
The Importance of Humor in Comedy
If you make somebody laugh about the thing, they recognize it and they laugh quite often. There's a type of person who will then pull back, because they've basically admitted that they also recognize this thing to be true. It's pre-linguistic even it's so deep that sense of humor. And I do think it's part of the orientation towards truth. The fact that our age might need to rely on comedians will tell us something about our age. If you have enough comedians in our society who are good, we might get out of this. Those are the 10 good men and sod them by the right who go dare to tell the truth exactly.
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