Contemporary Satire; Tastes Great - Less Filling.
Contemporary Satire Vonnegut did it! Committed satire. Over and over in fact. Although some critics didn’t think he wrote satire at all; apparently, even though his work was intended to make fun of modern life and capitalist values, it doesn’t do so with the intent of inspiring action that would reform the system. "Not satire." say those critics. "Hahaha," say I. Any lack of intention to inspire change is merely a technicality – simply a consequence of the times we live in – where the power structures, corruption, self-delusion and sheer vastness of our modern world is too embedded, complex and amoral to be changed by a guy with a writing pad or keyboard firing shots at the establishment. It’s about as effective as dropping a bomb in a video game. It may affect the outcome of that particular game, but is otherwise of no consequence at all to life, the universe and everything. If you do an intern...