Only dogmatic and authoritarian cultures are one-sidedly serious. Violence does not know laughter. . . The sense of anonymous threat in the tone of an announcer who is transmitting important communications. Seriousness burdens us with hopeless situations, but laughter lifts us above them and delivers us from them. Laughter does not encumber man, it liberates him. The social, choral nature of laughter, its striving to pervade all peoples and the entire world. The doors of laughter are open to one and all.[11]
