from Plautus to M. Bean

Comedy, slap-stick style, hasn’t changed since the time of the Roman Republic. I learned this in last Thursday’s Latin class. It got me thinking that humans, laughing at the same things for the past millenniums, come to appear like fish turning around in a small round aquarium. The human race lives in a bubble, and we keep repeating ourselves, from the patterns of dominant nations (i.e. Rome versus USA) to the minuteness of our humour. If there is someone looking from the outside in on us, how unoriginal we must seem. How elementary and ant-like.