16. “Comic Correctives,” from Attitudes Toward History, 166-175.
The
comic frame enables people to be observers and students of themselves. Instead
of promoting passivity, it would stress maximum consciousness. It would help us
be aware of ourselves and notice what improvements we can make. We would have a
standard of judgment for what’s “irrational and . . . non-rational” (171). Dramatism,
the comic lens, could help us glean knowledge even from books that other
perspectives would deem not worth studying.
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