## Summary In this episode, John Vervaeke discusses the relationship between humor, irony, and tragedy, focusing on Kierkegaard's perspective. He explains how humor can provide insight into the absurdities of life and help us navigate ethical dilemmas. Ultimately, the interplay between comedy and tragedy reveals deeper truths about our existence. ## Highlights I think humor involves a perspectival clash that we resolve with a kind of insight. I think absurdity involves a perspectival clash that drops us into participatory paradox where our existence is fundamentally called into question. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jt1fxaxahep347n5xjth0d8n)) - 💭 to respond to this perspective of a clash, wonders the best antidote humor bears the same relationship to the absurd that irony does to the paradox, in the sense not of being one-to-one maps, but one is on the same continuum and affords us and prepares us. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jt1fyn1bvnz6n89pbrptf7x7)) irony is to the aesthetic: what humor is to the ethical. Right? A way of waking up inside of it and realizing that it is not ultimate. Right? ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jt1g5nxz6skrqy9tqv3x9799))