the end of fairy tales
-from Time, May 21 2007 edition

this is a classic case of 'if you can't beat them then join them.'So how does the right wing rope in the left? endorse their views & commodify them. satires shouldn't become formulae. they need to stand on a distinct voice of reason and combine humor to take on the institutions/persons they wish to criticize. instead the sudden splurge of satires & parodies seem to be filling up the coffers of already very rich producers. we have the breaking of cliche becoming a cliche itself.

but is it possible to sustain a world that has distinct voices? that's a question purely from the economics POV. a romantic would say of course. a realist could say - why not. and really why not? it is already a world of distinct voices. except for the greater comfort or good or whatever people like to stupefy themselves with, distinct voices give way to dominant ones.

we need more of alexander pope, south park, aristophanes to defy the increasingly idiotizing world.