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RE: How (and Why) to Write Satire
This is a long post and took a while to read, and I find you understand your subject, and I'm glad you didn't use hyperbole to get your point across. I like to use satire, which is what drew me to the post. Good one...
@wales,
Thanks mate.
I think if more people would treat Satire as the Art Form it is, we'd actually have a lot less dissension about ... everything. If people had to invest in their insults, I suspect there would be a lot fewer of them. The degradation of debate has consequences for society. Even in War ... there must be Rules.
Quill
The whole article was fascinating and well-written, but you got me on this gem of a comment even more so.
Indeed. If people invested more in nearly everything we said, perhaps we would take more time to invest in listening to the "other" side, as well.
@plantstoplanks,
Agreed.
Words are containers of ideas, ideals and insights. Well-organized words necessarily reflect well-organized thoughts. By encouraging the former, you encourage the latter.
Some of the things that are being asserted ... in our universities no less ... border upon the insane. What happened to "evidence of assertion?" That's what the Enlightenment was all about:
We are backsliding.
Quill
I was thinking today that there are rules, and then there are rules. How does the machine differentiate between us, how does it tell us apart, you and I, the machine and I, I and I? Perhaps the machine can match in kind all that we are. But there is one thing it cannot do, and that is to feel....