The Hero's Journey Of "Compliance"

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“We laugh because it’s funny… and we laugh because it’s true.” So says DeNiro-as-Capone in The Untouchables, and so it is. In Western societies, humor is often the last refuge of truth. The purpose of the “fool” or “joker” in monarchies was to say things that were fundamentally true but which could not be safely said by anyone else around the king; the …