Philosophical-jombie

  Look, who is smiling! "Hey, that's funny, why don't you come with us?" Let us attend the royal feast. "Oh! I can't smile, no…no… that plastic smile I can't" she replied. I have heard that Stoics, emphasizing self-control never laughs at all. Plato, the most influential critic of laughter, treated laughter as the malicious Guardians of the state that overrides rationality should avoid laughter. Plato was disturbed by the passages of the Iliad and the Odyssey where Mount Olympus was said to ring with the laughter of the gods. He protested that "if anyone represents men of worth as overpowered by laughter, must not accept it, much less if gods." And so I was distressed by my sister's above remark. Though she was a political science teacher and an avid watcher of political events on T.V. happening this was an eventual shock for me because I, myself, squeeze a laugh from any kind of incident, and that too with a thunderous wild roa...