Pandemos -- Is This What Sanity Looks Like? Mathew Crawford “Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them--and by laughing at them destroy them? For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon--laughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution--these can lift at a colossal humbug,--push it a little-- crowd it a little--weaken it a little, century by century: but only Laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand.” - Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts Somewhere, out in the Ocean, a beautiful and thriving civilization spans the island of Pandemos. Larger in land size than Australia, you might miss it on a map, er, due to distortions in scale caused by Mercator projection. The lush and resourceful Pandemos has allowed for the Pandemosians to engineer an amazing modern society. Pandemosians are often so wealthy that their chil...