Good Laughter - Bad Laughter

Good Laughter - Bad Laughter

The human laugh is a complex aspect of speech.

The Eskimo word for "laughter" (iglavtiriwok) also means "making love." For a laugh that can be shared creates a social bond.

A custom among the Eskimos, when two members of the group have a dispute is to gather in a circle around those two. Each of those in the dispute tells jokes about the other. And those who form the circle laugh when they are moved to do so. The consequence is usually that one of the jokers gets embarrassed and leaves the village, perhaps never to return again.

Laughter not only heals, it can be divisive. And in the USA hysteria reigned as laugh-tracks (a potent opinionforming mechanism) were added even to children's TV cartoons. We tend to disregard people at whom laughter is directed while honoring those who have provoked the laugh.

The root of laughter in humans is the sound of an alarmed, and frightened primate who is trying to warn others in the group. Even a smile is of ten a sign we use to disguise hostilities.

The English word "smile" has its roots in the line of words: miracle, mirage, mirror, admire, and marvel. The human smile is a miracle in that when other primates show their teeth in some like fashion it means they are ready to fight.

Remember, the ancient MR words that lead to our "mister" and "marriage" were built upon the mirage of smiling mothers weaning their sons while slowly and subtly civilizing them over the ages.  Ab-ram was the Biblical "mister" named to the matrilineal tribe of the Hebrews. And here is a key to the Israel-Palestine conflict. Abram was already the father of "God Listens" when he was tempted to offer his son "Laughter" as a human sacrifice, after his wives came into conflict.

The smile is a female invention, a miracle that men have learned to imitate. Still, the fernale smile is a confusing cue to many males, even to this day.

Page 191 -  The Language Crystal by Lawrence William Lyons

This is a nice primer to this study.

https://youtu.be/0HpkmY8q2pU

Consciousness-  How language, symbol, letters ,and words uphold and manifest reality.  The use of biological words verses technological words on the human psyche.  How his(story) is upheld with my(story) and the mystery of the written text.  Exploring Lawrence William Lyons profound book (The Language Crystal)..

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