I am curious it the genre, satire, has died? I am bummed, I was not told this fact. And if so, I think it is a sad state of affairs when an odd, wacky story with a deeper meaning, no longer has any cache, and alas, we are collectively left with entertainment that is simply ‘bubblegum for the mind’.
Therefore, I lift my coffee mug in the air, and express my hearty thanks as funny thought experiments sail away into the poetic mists, and we are left with the common comment that defines our modern age.
“Wha- I don’t get it?” She asked as she glanced up at me from texting with her hand held tracking device with the use of opposable thumbs.
And I simply respond, “Oh, never mind …” As I gazed up into the heavens curious if I was about to be zapped by a laser flash from a random, unmanned drone that had determined that my life time achievement number had just come up, and ordered it to eliminate the target and ‘thin the herd’ or was the end of me even, ‘heard’?
In closing, I shall share a definition from an age old resource, a dictionary.
“sat·ire
/ˈsætaɪər/ Show Spelled [sat-ahyuhr] Show IPA
Origin: 1500–10; < Latin satira, variant of satura medley, perhaps feminine derivative of satur sated (see saturate)
Related forms
non·sat·ire, noun
Can be confused: 1. burlesque, caricature, cartoon, parody, satire (see synonym study at burlesque)(see synonym study at the current entry) ; 2. satire, satyr.
Synonyms 1. See irony1 . 2, 3. burlesque, caricature, parody, travesty. Satire, lampoon refer to literary forms in which vices or follies are ridiculed. Satire the general term, often emphasizes the weakness more than the weak person, and usually implies moral judgment and corrective purpose: Swift’s satire of human pettiness and bestiality. Lampoon refers to a form of satire, often political or personal, characterized by the malice or virulence of its attack: lampoons of the leading political figures”
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