No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.
I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony.
By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it.
I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something.
Satire is a weapon, and it can be quite cruel.
I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.
I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!
You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?
While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
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