Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.

I'm not Candide nor Dr Pangloss but we know that faith moves mountains.