We can penetrate any mystery, cut down any obstacle, defeat boredom and confusion, resolve any misunderstanding, weather any sorrow, laugh at misfortune, grow wise through our frailties, forgive ignorance and injustice, abolish fundamentalism, love any enemy, even smile at death itself, with Irony. What a happier place this world would be if half of us, and even one in ten politicians, had a healthy sense of humour.