All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate.
Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow thinner, the satirist's task becomes ever more difficult.
Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.
Satire is a weapon, and it can be quite cruel.
Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.
Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.
Satire can always be found everywhere. A people without love for satire is a dead people.
Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.
People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.
The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!