FRANK ZAPPA

One can transcend blind adherence to social norm, while avoiding the pitfalls of its opposite extreme, nihilism. It is possible to find sufficient meaning in individual consciousness and experience.

We can be freed from social impositions without devolving into anarchy through individual...

Far too many people spend 80% of their waking hours slogging away at a desk and view any break from this routine as a naughty deviation from duties.

Workism, where people worship their work, leave hordes of purportedly "Type A" people without hobbies, companionship, or a sense of self outsi...

It says that humor comes from a few necessary conditions:

1. There needs to be a norm violation (moral norm, a social norm, or a physical norm).
2. There needs to be a safe context where the violation takes place. That gives us permission to laugh.