This refers to a story told In the last part pertaining to a man who asked residents of a town in southern Somalia to vote for him because he will build a bridge that will link their town to Yemen. The act though daunting was not entirely impossible, but there was no reason for it, hence the laughter.
We generally admire, don't we?, such people, even though we may think of crazy or fools.
The author introduces another condition for laughter: socialization. People who are in some form of intimate relationship are able to laugh with each other, not others.
Why would then strangers fail to laugh with each other,?
The author says laughing with strangers, in some cases, like when you fall and you laugh with others about your fall, amounts to abandoning your ego.
Is that a bad thing to do?
Suppose you objectify, you assume the man who fall is not you, but your body, and if it Is laughable, you laugh at It with others.
Others may do the same, and thus abandon their ego too.
Thus, you may all succeed in extinguishing all your egos and thus experience unity and also develop a better egos than you had before.
This is an instance of a scenario mentioned in the book where something funny happens to a teacher and then if he laughs with students about his funny situation, they will also be inclined to do the same. This will help all parties extinguish their egos and thus discharge internal pressures, of course, new pressures will emerge, that is egos, but better ones. Simultaneously, peace and calm state may follow after egos are extinguished. This perhaps is the reason why we love laugher and it is why we say It is medicine.
It so happens also that people who makes us laugh, make more money than many professions.
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