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Reason and laughter.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
SIR: B.J. Coman's "Laughter and Misfortune--A Paradox" (October 2003) touches not only the transition from early Australian humour to the more sophisticated modern form that deals rather with the human tendency to see something funny in another person's discomfiture as well as mordant humour that is seen as an attempt to defuse a tragic situation.
Coman goes on to discuss the ways we handle what he described as the "unbridgeable" gulf between human aspiration and human achievement". To dissipate the sense of being unable to answer all of life's mysteries, the ancients turned to transcendental beliefs to fill the gap by invoking a power greater than the human mind. Should this not be done and reliance be placed entirely on human reason, life according to Coman would lose its meaning.
Coman takes a rather pejorative view of those who, following the Enlightenment, tried and are still persisting in attempts to achieve the perfectibility of man, a course that this century has shown to be disastrous. In this Coman is perfectly right, but perhaps he is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
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