The first
woman, who liked to play around and told her gullible husband that his new born
son was the child of The Sun God, was a pioneer in religious thought. When Mr. Gullible told a friend, an early Satirist,
of the blessed event, the Satirist said, “Why don’t you name him Sunny, after
his Father?” This joke wouldn’t have
gotten the Satirist a writer’s job on late night TV, but it invented that form
of Satire. A modern day example would be
the bumper sticker that says, “Honk, if you love Jesus. Text, if you want to meet Him.” You see, the form is the same. Start with a stupid statement, like the use
of a warning signal to show that you love a myth and then show how absurd it is
by adding a thought that is even dumber, by advising texting while driving.
It has long
been popular to murder folks for not believing in your mythology of
choice. The churches have supported it,
from the stoning deaths depicted in The Old Testament to the Jihad of the Koran. We people of the Bible, in the U.S., just
murdered over one hundred thousand innocents in Iraq. No creditable reason has been offered for the
“mistake.” Being a Satirist, I am still
looking for the punch line for that one. Do you have any suggestions?
The great Satirists
of our time, like Lewis Black, George Carlin, Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart,
are not listened to by the Ultra-Right. The
Ultra-Right simply doesn’t see the humor in the Satirist’s humor. T-shirts and bumper stickers might be a better
vehicle to reach them with, but the same problem in communication would
exist. I saw a t-shirt the other day
that said, “When you stop saying stupid things, I will stop answering you with
satire.” This would be the view of a
pompous ass, that is, your average Satirist.
God Bless the pompous asses. If
joy is the goal in life, a study of the lives of Satirists will show you that
satire is not the path to take. Being a
religious gullible is a much better path to happiness. That is, unless you are a radical Islamist
martyr. Their world has little room for
humor in it, as was shown recently in Paris.
If you can’t laugh at religion, what besides government is there to
laugh at? … War?
This blog
spot is really written to my fellow People of Satire. If you Satirists are reading this, remember
to respect and be kind to your Mother.
Comments are welcome, Old
Buz The Satirist
(The term “Satire” is capitalized in
the text, because I believe it becomes a religion to its frequent user.)
Comments are welcome.
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