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Depends on your definition of parody. I think it fits Swiftian parody just fine.
by interstitial 13y ago
Depends on your definition of parody. I think it fits Swiftian parody just fine.
- coldtea 13y agoSwiftian parody is not just mean. Actually, with some exceptions (like the "modest proposal"), it's not mean at all. And, most important of all, to fit Swiftian parody it would have to be Swiftian-level good. This is subreddit level humor....
- nswanberg 13y agoI was about to say the same thing, but I haven't read A Modest Proposal since high school, so I poked around Wikipedia a bit and had lots of fun reading about the kinds of satire. There's Juvenalian, which "addresses social evil through ridicule" and includes works like 1984, American Psycho, Family Guy, A Modest Proposal, and, I guess, this 67signals thing. Then there's Horatian, which "playfully criticizes some social vice through gentle, mild, and light-hearted humour" and is a lot of Twain, The Simpsons, Dr. Strangelove, and the Friedisms thing I linked to. Hard to say what the social evil is that the folks who wrote 67signals say they're fighting against. Possibly success. Possibly some angry comments DHH made when a startup took their code: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/01/31/this-site-mocks-37-signals-after-it-attacked-a-yc-startup-for-stealing-code/ http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/01/31/this-site-mocks-37-... (Anyway, apologies for the tangent--I went to a liberal arts school and there's a dusty corner of my brain that still likes this stuff.)