I just wanted to complain about the inability to join the community to complain about the recent surge of communities... or is that just carrying the joke too far? ;)
no, i'm serious here. this has been a running observation of mine since a 'Post editorialist wrote a column back in '91 or '92 about the "Home Mutual Fund Shopping Channel", only to be contacted in the weeks following by serious inquiries for the channel's address and/or president's phone number. he said he had dozens of people simply not get the joke.
his column went on to try to explain that, try to explain how satire is dead merely because reality keeps coming up with worse. what satirist could possibly have imagined Michael Jackson and his monkey, his ranch, his shades, his cast (that was never explained), the car-smashing video, or buying the elephant man (and this was back before "turning white", or buying the Beatles, or his two marriages and divorces, or his album flops, or the various charges against him, or even actually appearing with Janet on screen...but wait, that was after CGI was able to double someone in special effects). what satirist could even have invented such an extreme serial monogomist like Elizabeth Taylor? what satirist could have come up with the idea that those two would be friends?
it just go so crazy that anything was possible, therefore people would believe anything.
to a degree, you can see the effects of that attitude now, with "swift boat vets for truth" and the like. their crap is *plausable*, given the insanity of things one already believes, so one can believe it. doesn't mean its true, but belief has become more important these days...
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Date: 2006-06-16 02:53 am (UTC)his column went on to try to explain that, try to explain how satire is dead merely because reality keeps coming up with worse. what satirist could possibly have imagined Michael Jackson and his monkey, his ranch, his shades, his cast (that was never explained), the car-smashing video, or buying the elephant man (and this was back before "turning white", or buying the Beatles, or his two marriages and divorces, or his album flops, or the various charges against him, or even actually appearing with Janet on screen...but wait, that was after CGI was able to double someone in special effects). what satirist could even have invented such an extreme serial monogomist like Elizabeth Taylor? what satirist could have come up with the idea that those two would be friends?
it just go so crazy that anything was possible, therefore people would believe anything.
to a degree, you can see the effects of that attitude now, with "swift boat vets for truth" and the like. their crap is *plausable*, given the insanity of things one already believes, so one can believe it. doesn't mean its true, but belief has become more important these days...