The art of writing satire is all but dead today. There's but one writer I'm aware of who is satirical and he's conservative, P.J. O'Rourke.
It's not surprising, what, given all the horrible - nay! evil - addiction to political correctness that threatens this precious art form. Satire can't be censored or diluted to fit the sensitive sensibilities of pansies. It's not for the faint-hearted indeed.
I hold such people with contempt.
There's always someone who takes things way to literally preventing them from exercising their imagination permitting them to go beyond the literal word.
Let me amend. I hate such people. They're boring and annoying in their self-righteous flatulent notion of thinking of the children.
Fuck them.
And fuck the children too.
Could you imagine Juvenal writing today in modern newspapers? His vulgarity would cause a flood of letters to the editor calling him to be fired. Everything must be safe so as to not offend. Which is why I can't stand being in groups. I have to watch my every word lest there be a busy-body moron whose default position is 'I'm offended.'
Why, in my hockey pool - of all places - I was taken to task for using the word 'retarded.' It seems, the editors of the pool (well, self-proclaimed PC cops) didn't like the word being associated with children.
After telling them to all respectfully fuck off, invoking references, words and phrases that could be taken as hate speech, or that could offend fat people, and other "victimized" group (who isn't today, right?) managed to magically steer clear of criticism.
People, people. Consistency, please! Otherwise, how am I to take you seriously?
I lament the state of everything when it comes to freedom of speech in writing. There's a full blown assault by remedial minds and twits out to 'rectify' all perceived ills. From top to bottom (the President and his sure to fail social programs, dead-beat academics with stale ideas etc.) we're treated to an vertigo inducing array of spectacular stupidity (cleansing the word 'nigger' from Twain novels comes to mind). And when something passes for art, it's a piece of self-indulgent shit that just happens to lay in line with whatever crappy philosophical trend happens to be.
How can one not conclude we exist in a Dark Age?
Bah.
Fuck you.
(I hope you're offended).
****
Which brings me to American satirist Ambrose Bierce. His interpretation of some human vices and virtues, cultural norms and etiquette:
Politeness , n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.
Success, n. The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.
Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
Virtues, n. pl. Certain abstentions.
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises.
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
Liberty, n. One of imagination's most precious possessions.
Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with
the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Justice, n. A commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.
Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
(Poof! Goes progressive notions! Top men not in it for the collective but for control!)
Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
I've always felt politicians who abstain should be hunted down, tarred and feathered for their cowardice. Dante had a place for 'fence-sitters' in The Inferno.
And finally...
Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but 'pervades and regulates the whole.' He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line.
Think about that for a second.
Think hard.
It pretty much applies to everything to people in position of power whether they are Deans, Judges, lawyers, CEO's, and yes, the worst of them all politicians. With it comes much potential for corruption and abuse.
That's why I've always held in suspicion ANYONE with power.
It's not surprising, what, given all the horrible - nay! evil - addiction to political correctness that threatens this precious art form. Satire can't be censored or diluted to fit the sensitive sensibilities of pansies. It's not for the faint-hearted indeed.
I hold such people with contempt.
There's always someone who takes things way to literally preventing them from exercising their imagination permitting them to go beyond the literal word.
Let me amend. I hate such people. They're boring and annoying in their self-righteous flatulent notion of thinking of the children.
Fuck them.
And fuck the children too.
Could you imagine Juvenal writing today in modern newspapers? His vulgarity would cause a flood of letters to the editor calling him to be fired. Everything must be safe so as to not offend. Which is why I can't stand being in groups. I have to watch my every word lest there be a busy-body moron whose default position is 'I'm offended.'
Why, in my hockey pool - of all places - I was taken to task for using the word 'retarded.' It seems, the editors of the pool (well, self-proclaimed PC cops) didn't like the word being associated with children.
After telling them to all respectfully fuck off, invoking references, words and phrases that could be taken as hate speech, or that could offend fat people, and other "victimized" group (who isn't today, right?) managed to magically steer clear of criticism.
People, people. Consistency, please! Otherwise, how am I to take you seriously?
I lament the state of everything when it comes to freedom of speech in writing. There's a full blown assault by remedial minds and twits out to 'rectify' all perceived ills. From top to bottom (the President and his sure to fail social programs, dead-beat academics with stale ideas etc.) we're treated to an vertigo inducing array of spectacular stupidity (cleansing the word 'nigger' from Twain novels comes to mind). And when something passes for art, it's a piece of self-indulgent shit that just happens to lay in line with whatever crappy philosophical trend happens to be.
How can one not conclude we exist in a Dark Age?
Bah.
Fuck you.
(I hope you're offended).
****
Which brings me to American satirist Ambrose Bierce. His interpretation of some human vices and virtues, cultural norms and etiquette:
Politeness , n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.
Success, n. The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.
Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
Virtues, n. pl. Certain abstentions.
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises.
Justice, n. A commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.
Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
(Poof! Goes progressive notions! Top men not in it for the collective but for control!)
Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
I've always felt politicians who abstain should be hunted down, tarred and feathered for their cowardice. Dante had a place for 'fence-sitters' in The Inferno.
And finally...
Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but 'pervades and regulates the whole.' He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line.
Think about that for a second.
Think hard.
It pretty much applies to everything to people in position of power whether they are Deans, Judges, lawyers, CEO's, and yes, the worst of them all politicians. With it comes much potential for corruption and abuse.
That's why I've always held in suspicion ANYONE with power.
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