Humor can be a release valve in a system that prevents any one person from becoming too powerful.

· Bits and Bobs 10/6/25
  • Humor can be a release valve in a system that prevents any one person from becoming too powerful.
    • Apparently in The Dawn of Everything it talks about how in various indigenous societies, when a chief had to emerge to coordinate behavior, everyone would ridicule and mock them to keep them from getting too powerful.