George Monbiot is in charge to achieve something more unique: an essay of Corrosive Potential humor who ignores the left of the satire like a broadsword (How is the right to give up on progressive societies? It begins with a joke, 10 July).
Did we all do the image on Saturday, Saturday night live, do I get news for you, Ben Elton, or Jo Rand’s “Acid Acid“Quip about Nigel Farage? The left practical invention of modern political politics as we know – and suddenly. But suddenly.
Humor is not always left or encounter – it is anti-hypocritical, anti-power and frequent subversive. Assuming that jokes from the right (which I accept occasional advertising, the transformation Margaret, not new Donald Trump, not analyzing – this tring.
What truly weakens progressive society is to withdraw from self-awareness. The idea that “our” humor is noble and “their” is not cruel. Once any action began to believe it has a monopoly of moral legitimacy and irony, it has been flowing to parody. A healthy society can laugh at himself from all angles. If you are afraid of jokes, they may not be comedians who should be challenged but the weakening of ideas is defended.
John Butler
Tstey, Leictershire
Vs. George Monbiot, isn’t the real problem before we have lost the ability to ridicule our enemies? Don’t we need more toxic satire on ourselves – fighting fire on fire? The owner of the Martin Robons is a good example: incessantly, hard and merciless to people who do not have mercy. Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce and Jo Crade are all used to laugh as an experiment to think about how our society is.
Anyone seen the first black president of Eddie Murpy and Dodging Assassin while he makes a language that is seen in a real funny rice comedy.
Being permanently offends instead of trying to reveal the return return shows how the house and academic trains have been done. If “humor allows obscene ideas to prompt the case is possible”, we need to know that socialism is the condition that most of ourselves is.
Nick moss
London
George Monbiot is correct to emphasize the use of Homor in the correct normalization of their superior ideas, but progressives are used to humor the same ideas that are ideally ideas that are hard to accept. Oscar Wilde It was a master, with his games attended by drugs and loved by people he had a light. Do they know themselves on stage, preparing their pompousity and condolences? Without the way, they needed, and I suspected that he had done as much as he could to change society for anyone.
It is, as directed by monbiot, a powerful tactic and one we can continue to use those who use it against us.
Phil Uribe
Wells in lirrindod, powys
