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<blockquote data-quote="Grimhelm" data-source="post: 4502233" data-attributes="member: 37079">You are certainly more lucid here in your thoughts, and you are also more objective in your opinions.&nbsp; This is good.&nbsp; However, your assertion that humor should be put on hold during elections is something with which I must take issue.&nbsp;Humor is humor many times (perhaps all times) because it is deemed to be inappropriate.&nbsp; For this reason it might be argued that the elections are precisely the time to use more humor.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; Because, as the Columbia Encyclopedia states:&nbsp;From ancient times satirists have shared a common aim: to expose foolishness in all its guises — vanity, hypocrisy, pedantry, idolatry, bigotry, sentimentality — and to effect reform through such exposure. &nbsp;We use satire to effect reform through the exposure of the absurd within the political arena.&nbsp; I don't know about you, but during the election is precisely the time to expose the absurd so that we might see the &quot;truth&quot; a bit more clearly.&nbsp; This is the real job of humor.&nbsp; It is to strip away the ridiculous.&nbsp; I can't think of a better time than the elections.&nbsp; &nbsp;It is also not a modern phenomenon.&nbsp; Political satire and cartooning in America goes all the way back to Ben Franklin.&nbsp; It was useful and meaningful then and it is meaningful, necessary, and useful now.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Grimhelm, post: 4502233, member: 37079"] You are certainly more lucid here in your thoughts, and you are also more objective in your opinions. This is good. However, your assertion that humor should be put on hold during elections is something with which I must take issue. Humor is humor many times (perhaps all times) because it is deemed to be inappropriate. For this reason it might be argued that the elections are precisely the time to use more humor. Why? Because, as the Columbia Encyclopedia states: [I]From ancient times satirists have shared a common aim: to expose foolishness in all its guises — vanity, hypocrisy, pedantry, idolatry, bigotry, sentimentality — and to effect reform through such exposure.[/I] We use satire to effect reform through the exposure of the absurd within the political arena. I don't know about you, but during the election is precisely the time to expose the absurd so that we might see the "truth" a bit more clearly. This is the real job of humor. It is to strip away the ridiculous. I can't think of a better time than the elections. It is also not a modern phenomenon. Political satire and cartooning in America goes all the way back to Ben Franklin. It was useful and meaningful then and it is meaningful, necessary, and useful now. ;) [/QUOTE]

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