The Emergence of the Agelaste Left
Religion • February 2008 • Views: 463
This is where the agelaste’s lack of a sense of humor turns lethal, for the hard core of any fascist system is the agelaste. Eliminating humor is essential to the totalitarian system. In His novel The Joke, Kundera has a Communist sympathizer saying, “No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.”