Sarcasm and satire

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I love sarcasm and satire I think everything people do is ironic to some degree. It is probably one of the ways I cope with not really understanding the logic behind why people choose to do the things they do if I can make fun of it then I won't spend so much time obsessing over it and trying to understand it.

As you can guess this does not go over well with most people since people love to believe anything they they do matters and is not in a large or small way just a form of conditioned thinking or something simple that society has dressed up to look civilized.

The other day I was making fun of wedding rings and jewelry either people are like birds and they like shiny objects or it is a way to show off money and say hey I have so much wealth I can wear ugly shiny things on my body that are there just to be looked at probably both.

This pretty common in others or was I just this way. My mom thinks I have my dead grandpa living though me since I developed tons of his traits even though he died when I was 2.

Satire is a form of homour which selected and forefronts other people's trait, such as insensitivity, pretentiousness,, hypocrisy etc, usually in a socially-acceptable way.

Sarcasm is a form of cynicism which can occasionally yield humorous results., but tends not to be so socially acceptable because it is so negative (and highly-personal) by definition

Both have their place, but sarcasm is not referred to as 'the lowest form of wit' for no reason.

Last edited by CharityFunDay on 25 Nov 2013, 6:50 pm, edited 1 time in total.

That was kind of a strange thing to throw in at the end of all this.

More of an opinion then truth. Many people just plain suck at it so it comes out poorly. Also negativity must be around just as much as positive things. To focus on only one is to miss half of life.

I would be socially unacceptable either way by just asking to many questions or pointing out obvious stuff that people do. People like to be robotic they have their preprogrammed ways to live and when pressured to question the programming they get angry.

My grandpa had the same humor and ya I tend to do that.

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More of an opinion then truth. [/quote]

Well, yes, but an opinion that has been formed through extensive personal experience.

Don't mind sarcasm and satire much, as long as it's escalated well.

I seriously thought this thread was about whether or not I was able to understand these two things.
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Sarcasm is just how I cope with a lot of things in my life, and to deal with questions that have obvious answers.

Another fan here.