Several of you, stop and think what you are saying: Smart people can't poke ironic fun at stupid ideas because stupid people won't understand it and it will confirm their stupid ideas. They might act based upon their stupid ideas because this cartoon appeared.



Not at all. The point is that they must do it well and strike cleanly with the blade of satire--not just wheeze and hack. This cover, unfortunately, is ham-fisted so the satire fails, just by a narrow margin, and it becomes tasteless instead of biting, for lack of a little more wit.


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