Great article and great concept, Emily. Thanks for posting both.
I don't talk about my time with the Rama guy much here because some are averse
to it and freak out, but one of the things I'm most grateful to that teacher
and that whole trip for is that my time there taught me to laugh at myself a
lot more. Relating it to this study, the more self-importance (and thus
self-deception) I managed to drop, the more in life I found funny, and the more
I laughed. In a way it was very Castanedan and his suggestion that one of the
reasons his characters don Juan and don Gennero were such funny guys was that
they had gotten past their self-importance.
From: "emily.ma...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2014 6:51 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Humor and Self-Deception
I've been thinking about humor - how some things strike some as so funny
and others as not at all. I had to be taught by others in early adulthood to
appreciate the absurd, for example, as that element of humor was lacking in my
upbringing. This article is from 2012 so may have crossed here already.
It’s No Joke to Self-Deceivers
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| | | | It’s No Joke to Self-Deceivers People who fail to
see the absurdity in themselves may also fail to notice absurdity more broadly.
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