Gargantua and Pantagruel
How does a hearty laugh that shatters taboos and oppression become the most powerful philosophy?
📝ONGO's Reflection
When I read through the outlandish and even bawdy adventures of the giant father and son, I burst out laughing at the exhilarating sense of release that shatters medieval solemnity to pieces. Through unrestrained wordplay and praise of bodily desire, Rabelais ridicules the hypocrisy of the Church and the stale educational systems of his day. The sole rule of the Abbey of Thélème, "Do what thou wilt," is the most impudent and vibrant three cheers of Renaissance humanism, which sought to free human nature, in its positive form, from repression.
"Do what thou wilt."François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
"네가 원하는 것을 하라."
🌱Apply It Today
If you catch yourself growing far too serious, give yourself room to breathe with a silly joke or a hearty out-loud laugh.
