However, it is also here to make you laugh, punch a wall, etc. So if you ever need to vent some anger, wallow in self-pity for a bit (because, let's face it: we all do it), or forget about everything else and laugh for a while, this is the place to go. And please, I know there are countless things we can talk about, so don't just listen to what I have to say. Comment and give your input, and suggest things that piss you off so we can talk about that.
COLOR CHANGE!!!
Do I still have your attention? Good.
I'm sure many of you are probably wondering about my blog's URL. Allow me to explain.
Francois-Marie Arouet was the name of a famous French writer, more commonly known as Voltaire. He wrote satire. Satire was based off of humor and sarcasm.
So basically, he wrote about all the problems in his world during HIS time period, but he did this through creating stories and using sarcasm do demonstrate them, which, if you think about it, made it even funnier, because all of those politicians that didn't even have half a brain probably completely overlooked what he was trying to say.
For example:
In one of his more famous works, Candide (if you haven't read it, I highly recommend it), he tells the reader in one scene that a tutor named Pangloss is giving a chambermaid "a lesson in experimental physics behind some bushes." I think it's pretty obvious that that wasn't what was literally happening.
So what does it mean?
They were having sex. That's the kind of thing I'm talking about. Although I think a better example would be when Jonathan Swift published a paper saying that the solution to overpopulation and poverty in Ireland would be, to sum it up, to eat all the poor people's babies. Did he really think the Irish should solve the famine crisis by those means?
Of course not. He was trying to make a point.
I hope to hear from you all soon.
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