Cockburn is "not afraid of being funny" and he finds ideas amusing; but in his hands, "funny" is "only the other side of terror." As Norman Wilner remarks:Calmly offering philosophical and metaphysical insights on the audio track, while evidence of his thesis plays out on the screen, he's both prankster and serious inquisitor: theres no way anything he's talking about is even plausible, let alone probable, but he's going to explore the possibilities as if it were.
