Fair point about the difference between good satire and bad. There’s always been bad comedy that just points and laughs.
Satire isn’t dead, the problem is finding the new extremes. Looking at what’s going on and teasing out the ridiculous, improbable hypotheticals without being defeatist. Good satire finds the hope, too, what happens after we get over the wall, and how do we get there.
It’s mentally exhausting to keep seeing the hyperbole and not getting the hope.
Well now I’m just I’m trying to remember the Spaceballs reference I’m forgetting. I’d say “I’m an old man” but if you’re referencing it you likely are “old” too.
Fair point about the difference between good satire and bad. There’s always been bad comedy that just points and laughs.
Satire isn’t dead, the problem is finding the new extremes. Looking at what’s going on and teasing out the ridiculous, improbable hypotheticals without being defeatist. Good satire finds the hope, too, what happens after we get over the wall, and how do we get there.
It’s mentally exhausting to keep seeing the hyperbole and not getting the hope.
Mostly, I’m thinking about Spaceballs.
Well now I’m just I’m trying to remember the Spaceballs reference I’m forgetting. I’d say “I’m an old man” but if you’re referencing it you likely are “old” too.
I wasn’t around when it came out, no. Oldish.
There are so many. The best is when the alien rips out of guys’ chest and he’s like “Oh no! Not again!”