In a world of clowns and bores, I’ll take the clowns.
Chesterton, that stout Englishman who managed to see the cosmic joke amid the Edwardian fog, put it plainly enough: the bore is the poor sod who finds nothing funny, while the clown finds everything funny.
We gotta avoid both extremes like Odysseus threading the Straits of Messina, but if I gotta err, …