Arena Magazine, April 1st, 1999
Satire is therapeutic, a necessary ingredient for survival. It uses ambiguity and inverts beliefs to show a new perspective. Context is important for satire, but the carriers of satire are embedded in the mechanism of money. Outlets for satire are funded by the economic system. Satire does not need to be censored when it can be buried in entertainment.
To be sociological and very unsatirical we probably have to consider satire as an aspect of play -- that is as performance, experimentation, pretence. It is a part of the human learning process.
Play seems to be the genetically programmed expe...
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