remembering some recent jokes i’ve heard, i thought: aren’t the best comedians some of the smartest people? to laugh is to physically surrender to the truthfulness of an idea. that’s powerful stuff.
it stands to reason that some of the smartest people through the ages, the ones still being quoted today, were funny. like, really funny.
it’s not like we invented laughter a hundred, a thousand or, even, 100,000 years ago.
for example, what if Jesus’ parables were jokes?