SERIOUSLY MORREALL!?!

Am I the only one who thinks Morreall may have lost his mind writing this book? 

 In all honesty I really appreciate some of the lessons that can be gained from the analysis of humor.  However some of the material in these last few chapters seems SO hypocritical.  First on page 97 Morreall defends humor against the claim that is fosters anarchy.  Saying that satire points out faults in the system, requiring other people to take notice and then eventually action.  He says that is is a part of democracy and helps people realize where the flaws are and encourages deeper thought.  Then on page 101 NOT EVEN FIVE PAGES LATER he says that "satire is not a weapon of revolutionaries." 

 Yes I get there there are some minor discrepancies in the points he is making here but if you ask me you can't tell your readers that humor is involved enough to change opinions and bring people to new forms of thought, as can be seen in old comedies, and then tell us that satire is not used in an engaged way to evoke emotion about a problem. This just creates super massive black holes in his argument.

Then he talks about how women's laughter is thought to be a sexual stimulant to men on page 95. After this he proceeds to also say that "amusement and laughter tend to diminish sexual passion, as we said earlier," ON THE SAME PAGE. Maybe I'm getting this all wrong but this is really frustrating to me.