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%LAUGHTER 770709
Technocrats regard laughter as something to be
explained, rather than accepted. They can not accept
laughter as an indication of integrity and wholistic human
relationships. Since their methodology is exclusively
analytic, laughter must be understood in an analytic
way---by violating people's integrity through analysis.
Then laughter is perceived an an indication of a lack of
integrity---even when there is genuine integrity. Since
technocrats do not value uniqueness they cannot cope with
unique individuals and relationships, they are often
destroyed---much as the physicist destroys a nucleus to
understand how it is put together.
The earnest technocrat tends not to appreciate humor
which serves no goal-oriented purpose---but may use humor
as a means to achieve some desired result. Thus humor in
a technocratic society tends to be a tool which is often
used violently. It is used to invade people's privacy and
expose their distress, in a perverted effort to re-
establish communication. Such technocratic humor may be
the only form known to technocrats---consequently their
theory of humor pertains only to technocratic humor. The
technocratic understanding of humor thus tends to
perpetuate only technocratic humor, and dismiss humane
laughter.
Laughter is part of integral relationships which may
not be understood analytically. Exclusive objectivity
must be subject to the broadening perceptions of
subjectivity of subjects who are not subjected to
exclusive objectivity---else laughter will be an object of
analysis which has no humane meaning. Some laughter can
not be understood objectively, because its meaning is
perceived only by those who fully participate in the
laughter wholisticly. Such participation destroys the
possibility of full objectivity in its exclusive form.
Thus the scientific analysis of laughter may lead to
meaningless conclusions---even when they are based upon
the verification of high degrees of correlation.
Objective scientific conclusions may be meaningless in
human terms while being objectively "true". In some
situations objective "truth" is meaningless, and real
people laugh in a gentle way.
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