Guest Post by Bill Bonner
YOUGHAL, IRELAND – Our dreary job is getting drearier and drearier.
We used to lighten it up with jolly mockery. “Laugh and know,” was the Roman poet Martial’s formula. You only really understand the absurdities, vanities, and stupidities of the world when you can laugh at them. Then, they are entertaining rather than irritating.
But now, it’s getting harder and harder to ridicule the great and the good. The most lunkheaded of them are given Nobel prizes… appointed to head the IMF… or elected president!
Sarcasm is mistaken for earnest praise. And our mockery falls short; they mock themselves better than we ever could.
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