Prophetic Satire
Over at Conscience of a Liberal, Paul Krugman reminded me of this piece in the ONION from January 17, 2001 – Bush: ‘Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over’.
It is satire, but it damn sure isn’t funny.
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I keep that link in my bookmarks and hit it every once in a while. Frightening how prophetic it was and also very sad.
Of course the people who wrote it will never be invited on TV to discuss their views. They have committed the unpardonable sin of being correct.
…one of the most brutal experiences that a supposedly mature culture can go through is to have what appears to be absurd satire actually come to fruition…
Ahhhh… The Onion! 😀 One of the very few real news sources in the USA today. I think it was LadyMin that first directed me towards the Onion way-back-when! At first, I scratched my head and had to double-take… then the light went on and I laughed and laughed and… then… reality began to crumble and dissolve, and the satire and biting humor showed what was under the facade of the USA, and I got angry and joined a couple blogs to voice my anger and frustration at ‘Teh Stupids!'(tm) because we learned here to our horror that the Bushmoron and ‘Howard the Duck'(tm) were lip locked kissin cousins along with their ‘bend over’ guy in Downing Street, and the the Unholy Trinity had indeed arrived!
There were a few like the Onion I enjoyed (sic). Another of my long time faves… Shocked and Awful.
Then of course, there is Evil GOP Bastards, and not to forget The Smirking Chimp (There are a couple of very good articles there today). And one more for the road, A.N.U.S. (American Nihilist Underground Society). Heres an example: The World is Going to Hell And I Feel Fine
Lot’s of real news out there. 🙂 It’s just in disguise, because you know that *today*, reality is fiction and fiction is reality. It truly is BizzaroWorld!
Even during the Soviet years you could find the truth hidden in the humor magazines and comic media. Apparently a red rubber nose is the most effective shield against censorship.
We are trapped in the longest SNL sketch in history, and the Monty Python crew keep coming by for guest shots. We could really use a laugh track, or at least a rousing musical score to carry us to the end.
“We are at war, so you have to shop!” certainly doesn’t have the gravitas of Winston Churchill or Henry V.
People are willing to enslave themselves to the government in the belief that that is the only way they will be free.
It’s a good thing I gave up alcohol or I would never get anything done.
It’s a good thing I gave up alcohol or I would never get anything done.
A big AMEN to that brother! *sigh* I feel the pain. I know, as you do, there is no answer in a bottle, or anything else really.
And yeah, I agree with the rest of it.
The world is just as screwed up as you left it, and you’re hung over to boot. No gain I could see.
Cops are not a jolly group to begin with, and alcohol doesn’t help the situation. Although the fact that everyone is armed does make it a bit more civil.
There was some crazy woman on the news last night screeching about appealing a sentence a Judge had just given her. Her crime? She had a car accident (her third) and had a blood alcohol reading of .46 (I think… .4 anyway)! I’m simply amazed she isn’t dead! She seamed drunk at the courthouse, but I suspect (and have seen it before) she has alcohol-related brain damage. The Judge ordered her license suspended for 5 years (the max he can do) and a 12mth jail sentence. Talk about cold turkey! Twice before, she was supposed to get clean on some program, and twice before she failed. I have no sympathy for anyone that stupid. It’s probably moot anyway, she’ll probably have liver failure any day now.
Drinking alcohol have NEVER solved any problem, but sure has caused many! I have no problem with a drink for pleasure. Moderation is a good idea in all things I find. And you can’t stop ‘Teh Stupids'(tm) from doing stupid things! Sadly, they usually end up killing or destroying some poor innocent(s).