But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”
“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.
“You must be,” said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Like I shouldn’t air my political opinions! 
I don’t often disagree with N., but in this case I think it was the crazy talking.
Laughter is social— and I’m not convinced it is a counterbalance to the suffering brought about by consciousness.
I wonder if those kids raised by wolves laughed.
I take this more as a commentary on the suffering we humans endure, than as an actual explanation of why there is laughter. Life is a bitch sometimes.
Yeah, and I think Camus has us covered with Sisyphus happy.
I just wonder why N would use laughter as the determining factor when clearly not all people laugh for the same reasons and cross culture laughter is an even rarer skillset. My wife doesn’t get Benny Hill. I mean wtf?
