However, the point of Dante’s title seems to be that the mind of God is never perturbed. Thus, any event that might seem terrible or unbearable to us, who are mortals, is--in God's mind--harmoniously resolved. All is therefore comedic–at least in a certain sense, at least in the long run.
Think of Wiley Coyote who is terrified when about to go over the edge of a cliff. He then falls a half-mile or so, to smash resoundingly at the bottom of a canyon. But there’s something in the way that Wiley Coyote behaves-- something, perhaps, about the way he looks-- that makes his terror fully suitable, fully deserved.
Therefore his abject torment makes us laugh.
From that, one can try to extrapolate upwards, to God. For Him, if one is in Dante's school, even the terrors of the dammed are amusing, and that was Dante’s point.
Is it then proper for us humans to find humor in all that happens in the world? Was Hurricane Katrina funny? It may seem callous to even make such a suggestion. But it's apparently conceded by scientists that global warming is making hurricanes worse.
In the city’s long previous history, New Orleans had never before been hit by anything as bad as Katrina. And we have seen how Peter Glaser’s SPS may well hold the key to global warming control--and how, in 1987, it helped resolve the Cold War.
Between 1987 and Hurricane Katrina, eighteen years elapsed. Glaser's work hadn't been advanced in that time period.
But had any lesson been learned, even after Katrina? Was satellite solar power being debated in the popular media? Did we hear politicians talking about satellite solar power in political debates? If global warming were to continue, wouldn’t the bad consequences of that be the fault of our bumbling human race--and, therefore, in some abstract sense a comedy?
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