It’s A Good Time For Political Satire. But Not For Pretty Much Anything Else

November 9, 2009

It is a great time for anyone who dabbles in satire. (Is anyone out there still dabbling in satire? Or have you all been wiped out by political correctness?)

A quick, brisk glance at the state of things will tell that it is a crazy world out there. In the supposedly highly progressive and technologically advanced 21st century we still have wars breaking out and hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians getting killed. We have hundreds of millions of people living under all sorts of dictatorships – and that is just in the Western world, mind you – and we have whole national economies that benefit a handful of people, while the rest struggle to survive.

We have a banking system that is based on greed and corruption, ripping off of its customers and getting hundreds of billions from the taxpayers in bail-outs when things go wrong. We have an education system that teaches nothing of any substance and produces illiterates who can barely read or write but know how to put a condom on from the age of five. We have arts, music and literature that have been taken over by grey mediocrities who can’t paint, sing, compose or string a sentence together and yet are promoted as huge talents.

Science is stuck in the middle of the last century, pleasing the cheap thrills of the mob and the military’s lust for killing, while unable to solve any of the real problems, and modern medicine cannot even catch up with the ancient Egyptians and Greeks, who knew more about major illnesses and how to cure them than the current lot does.

In our supposedly enlightened times we still have barbarians, posing as scientists, who publish books telling everyone that humans have originated from the animal kingdom and are not much different from mice or baboons. Even our sports have turned into one commercialised vulgarity that is solely based on ripping off the fans and pleasing the corporate sponsors.

And if that is not enough material for satire, then you can always turn your sights on politics and have a real ball. If you are into political satire you don’t even need to invent anything. It is there in the open for you. That is why we, at StirringTroubleInternationally, always have enough material to come up with new articles every day. (So that you know, we are one of the very few humorous current affairs website on the Internet that is updated every single day.)

Just have a quick look at the leaders of the supposedly civilised nations. It is pure satire. You can’t help wondering how on earth they ever got to where they are now. First of all, most of them are revolting, simply revolting.

So all of these folks got into power on the strength of the mighty local currency and on promises to do things that they never actually planned to deliver in the first place. We have an unelected Prime Minister in Britain at the moment, Gordon ‘I saved the world from the economic crisis’ Brown, who has managed to bankrupt Britain for the next 1000 years and screwed up everything else as well. We have a President in France, Nicolas Sarkozy, a man with a deep inferiority complex due to his short height, who has married a rock chick and is now taking advice from her on how to run the country. We have a former communist in Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has managed to do absolutely nothing in her first term in office and who still got re-elected on the basis that there was no one else to elect. In Italy we have a Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, who is struggling for his political survival because of his obsession with young women fit to be his granddaughters and escort agency babes. And last but not least we have a political novice in Washington, who finds nothing more exciting to do than push through a new health care system worth a trillion dollars, at a time when America is broke, fighting two wars and has wasted all of its remaining money of bailing out failed banks.

And it doesn’t stop there. In Russia we have a tandem of political leaders, when no one knows who runs what in the country, and in China we have a communist leadership that has obviously decided to take over the world by flooding it with cheap goods produced by slave labourers and by quietly buying up all the energy resources in the world. We have the Indian government that pretends that it is presiding over an economic boom, even though most of the population knows nothing about it, and we have another giant on the other side of the planet, Brazil, that is supposedly growing by the day in economic terms and yet has some of the worst poverty in the world.

What is even funnier, we have a big bash in Berlin for the world leaders to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall and, supposedly, the fall of communism along with it, and yet we have neo-communists in practically all European countries yielding even more power than during the Cold War. In Britain, Spain, France, Portugal, Greece and most of the East European countries, including Russia, the neo-comms are running things as if we are still living in the 1960s.

Karl Marx, by the way, is once again in fashion and there are politicians who are seriously suggesting that it is time to revive that madman’s theories and use them in practice across the board.

It might be a shitty time for most people, but it’s sure a great time for political satire.

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