CONGRUENCY: CoMPLEXITY WTTHOUT CONTRADICTION
While occasional surprise, contradiction, feint, and whimsy are ingredients of humor(and humor makes life worth living), by and large people strive for congraeng between var. ious departments of their daily lives and between their various emotional, behavioral, and cognitive states. I have already discussed cognitive dissonance as the emotional state where an individual's beliefs, feelings, and actions are incongruous and uncomfortable. The nat ural tendency of humans is toward y between emotions, thoughts, and actions. This should be the natural, normal tendency in our landscapes as well. When as in the landscapes of today-the opposite tendency toward surprise, contradiction, simulation, and irony moves beyond the boundaries of art and entertainment into the absolute main siream of human existence, something is fundamentally wrong