The APA also counsels humor as an antidote to anger, and we have seen this deployed both by ancient Stoics like Epictetus (If I have to die now, then I die now; but if later, then now I’m going to dine, because it’s dinnertime) and by modern ones like Irvine (Oh, you think that essay I wrote was fundamentally misguided? That’s because you haven’t read all my other essays!).
