He defies the law of gravity, taunts the policeman, ridicules the other performers. Through him we catch a glimpse of another world impinging on this one, upsetting its rules and practices. Laughter of course can be strained, cruel, artificial, or merely habitual. It can mask our true feelings. But where it is real, laughter is the voice of faith. . . .
Laughter is hope's last weapon.
You can't hope, and you can't continue to dream, if you cannot laugh. There is something subversive about laughter. If you cannot laugh, you cannot dream. If you cannot dream, you are doomed to live entirely within the present reality and never to see through it or beyond it. We live amid structures of power and convention that are in many ways inadequate to serve an evolving human consciousness.