Meshugginah posts, and other things sundry

[Joaquin Stick]

On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Vaska wrote:

> The point of satire is that it
> always claims to have got it right: without such a claim, however implicit
> it might be, it has no leg to stand on.

I'm not so sure about this. It seems to me the point of satire is not
necessarily the suggestion that "I've got it right" but "you've got it
wrong/absurd". Does the satirist really have the suggestion of an
alternative reality in mind or is it just the task of the satirist to
point out the folly of the object of his/her satire?

Just a ponder...

	
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