One famous writer said the other day that mockery is the only pleasure available to ignorance. If we accept this thought for a moment, then we must conclude that this is not just the most primitive, but also basic pleasure, and more and more refined, even intellectual pleasures - a refined, removed mockery. By the way, Freud, in his treatise “Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious,” came to a similar idea, saying that humor is originally laughter at exposure—the laughter of the biblical Ham.