Satire is soooooooo Twentieth Century, given that it was invented by hippies and librul college professors and can't be understood anyway.
Satire said greed is good. And behold, it is.
Satire began with A Modest Proposal, which, if published today, would have inspired sales of cookbooks and a line of cookware suitable for roasting Irish babies.
Instead it inspired a generation of anti-abortionists, one of whom, while initially an ardent fan of satire, has now come to realize that satire doesn't work.
Satire, like leadership, is the ability to ignore and subvert the will of the majority while claiming to represent it.
Today people understand that if everyone in their social circle believes something, then it's true beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Today people propose modest proposals with a completely straight face, unaware that (once upon a time) a modest proposal was considered immodest.
And satire is just a synonym for wit.
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