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Satire Can Save Us from the Left Hemisphere's Tyranny
Flourishing Despite Modernity

Satire Can Save Us from the Left Hemisphere's Tyranny

Moderns Latch onto Abstractions with a G.I. Joe Kung Fu Grip. It's a Breeding Ground for Satire.

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Oct 03, 2024
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Satire is everywhere these days. The Onion, before it went woke. The Babylon Bee. I even wrote a series of Middle Earth satires (which greatly amused me, if no one else).

Satire can savage just about anything. "Hardly any institution, group, or individual," said Fowler, "lies beyond the reach of such ridicule."

But let's face it, satire works best when it…

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