Not sure what you are trying to say. Entertaining somebody is pretty difficult. Try to make a crowd 5000 people laugh and go back to their home thoroughly entertained.
I would say Bozo the Clown is equally a genius in his own merit.
At the end the person who works reaps the benefits of his work, people who laugh get proved wrong and then search ways to discredit the other persons work.
Laughing at some one is the last ditch attempt to make the person stop doing what they are doing. When you know you are incapable of doing something, and wish to stop others from doing so in the fear they will get ahead.
Laughing at some one is the last ditch attempt to make the person stop doing what they are doing. When you know you are incapable of doing something, and wish to stop others from doing so in the fear they will get ahead.
When I laugh at someone (who isn't a clown or comedian) falling on their own ass, it is not a last ditch attempt to stop them from falling on their ass. It's an expression of amusement at someone else's misery, or of gladness that it's not me being hurt, or of any of a thousand other emotions and reasons.
The point Sagan was making was that just because people are laughing at you doesn't make you a innovative or scientific genius. And just because someone tells you you're wrong doesn't make you right.
I would say Bozo the Clown is equally a genius in his own merit.
At the end the person who works reaps the benefits of his work, people who laugh get proved wrong and then search ways to discredit the other persons work.
Laughing at some one is the last ditch attempt to make the person stop doing what they are doing. When you know you are incapable of doing something, and wish to stop others from doing so in the fear they will get ahead.