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i don't know at what point subtle satire can be called the real thing
there has to be a point where you are sooooo subtle, that maybe you do believe in whatever it is you were satire
for instance someone says they like gregorian chant (hfmffphh as if that would ever happen. if you happened to research and listen to some chant and were then to convey to the person you were talking to that you too were interested in chant, when really you thought it was stupid and were being sarcastic, but you seemed so engrossed that the other person never realised, doesn't that mean that in their mind you love the chant?
and if you never let on and it remained a personal joke, and to everyone else it appears you love gregorian chant, does that mean you were really satirizing them?
i mean if you do too sublte a satire that it appears the real thing, isn't it not satire any more, but polite conversation
like when a great aunt talks racist and you just have to keep quiet because they come from a different era.
there has to be a point where you are sooooo subtle, that maybe you do believe in whatever it is you were satire
for instance someone says they like gregorian chant (hfmffphh as if that would ever happen. if you happened to research and listen to some chant and were then to convey to the person you were talking to that you too were interested in chant, when really you thought it was stupid and were being sarcastic, but you seemed so engrossed that the other person never realised, doesn't that mean that in their mind you love the chant?
and if you never let on and it remained a personal joke, and to everyone else it appears you love gregorian chant, does that mean you were really satirizing them?
i mean if you do too sublte a satire that it appears the real thing, isn't it not satire any more, but polite conversation
like when a great aunt talks racist and you just have to keep quiet because they come from a different era.