[Sacajaweau]

An Irish Satire....”A Modest Proposal” by Jonathon Swift suggested the same and more....to address Ireland’s problems.

[grania]

re: "A Modest Proposal" was part of studying English Lit in HS. Back then, people recognized when a work was satire, and used it to initiate discussion of the world we live in.

Today, we've become a society that's too humorless for folks to even get it. Sad, isn't it?

[chesley]

Yeah, but that was satire