World needs more smiles, laughter

What the world needs is spontaneous laughter.

If shows did not have 'canned” laughter there would be little of it during so-called funny shows that use gutter stuff and ridicule of people not there to defend themselves, as laugh material.

The really funny comedians have moved on to a better place and with them has gone much of an innocent society.

Blaring televisions bombard our sensitivities with the ugliness of a war torn world invading what used to be, at intervals, private space within the human person.

Lacking authentic medicinal humor we need to treasure substitutes.

Apart from a friendly smile when we are fortunate enough to catch one, it helps to submerse ourselves in the thoughts of great writers or in meditative silence to escape from the madness of man killing man, of oil wells wantonly blown up and people freezing come winter.

Of contradictory values here at home imprisoning the mind of the uninformed and where juvenile lying is the meat of undisciplined politicians.

We need ways of going where the public man confronts the deepest roots of the private person and therein recapture what modern life steals while resorting to 'canned” laughter. Or, we can simply enjoy the silly 'logic” found in everyday life.

Consider the man who constantly criticized others.

For breakfast he asked his wife to fix him toast and two eggs, one sunny-side up the other scrambled. When she set them before him he grumbled, 'You messed up again and scrambled the wrong egg.”

Rosemary Weydert

Winthrop