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10 February 2007 in Humour, Politics by Stilgherrian | 3 comments
That great satirist Peter Cook was once asked if he thought that satire had a political effect. He said:
Absolutely. The greatest satire of the twentieth century was the Weimar cabaret, and they stopped Hitler in his tracks.
Attributed to Stephen Colbert, in a Rolling Stone interview, thanks to Blog Them Out of the Stone Age.
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11 February 2007 at 12:35 am
Richard
That’s a great link, thank you.
And thank you for the web, DARPA. Funny how a medium devised for disseminating hierarchical orders has created the so-called ‘horizontal information ecology’.
Funny, also, the amount of military doctrine that gets debated online. The staff colleges can’t keep up, but their imprimatur doesn’t matter any more — apart from getting the proverbial ‘tick in the box’.
Funny, a ‘network-centric’ miltary that aspires to be what Toffler called ‘third wave’, is still wedded to ’second wave’ education and training. But they still want to fight in a ‘third wave’ way. Can we all say ‘cognitive dissonance’, kids?
(I can’t believe I’ve used that much despicable management-speak — however ‘ironically’ — in my own free time. Please kill me.)
14 February 2007 at 7:53 pm
Matthew Stibbe
Reminds me that satirist Tom Lehrer quit when they gave Henry Kissinger the Nobel peace prize. He claimed it was unfair competition.
16 February 2007 at 4:51 pm
Stilgherrian
Thanks for the pointer, Matthew, yes a great reference. Love your work.