loliticz.com

Satire

Satire is the form of use taken by using the logic pattern of the ancients and applying it to everyday problems. Reductio ad absurdum is the proper name, and it means to reduce to absurdity. Since a picture is worth a thousand words, it seems to me that satire in the form of pictures, with comments to help the humor or politically impaired, is perfect. Its true purpose is really not humor per se, but rather criticism of an event, an individual or a group in a clever manner.

In ancient times the Socratic method of discovering truth by asking questions very often leads to satire and absurdity just by virtue of the kinds of questions that are asked. We here at loliticz.com try to attain the little child question mindset for as long as we can while looking for images to use to send a little truth and a lot of humor out into people’s lives. People who voluntarily put their lives into the public spotlight have little to complain about when the folks they are trying to influence are critical of their actions and intentions.

As many of the most famous satirists of history have done, pseudonyms are used to protect the identities of the writers. Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay, used the pseudonym Publius while writing The Federalist Papers. Benjamin Franklin’s use of Richard Saunders to publish Poor Richards Almanac, and many others are well established as “nome de plume”, or in reality “nome de guerre”

Here at loliticz.com we take on the precocious nature of cats, in the internet tradition of lolcat, icanhazcheeseburger, and 4chan speak. Cats are insufferably arrogant, haughty, superior beings by nature, and we strive to emulate them as much as possible. They are also awesomely funny, clever, whimsical creatures as well, and we strive to elicit as much of that as we can as well. They are after all, able to define some of the forces of nature, like quantum physics, (Schrödinger’s human did some work in that area) and they possess wisdom we mere humans do not.

It is not enough to simply have an image of a politician doing something silly, although some politicians do have some awe inspiring talents for getting photographed doing amazingly silly, stupid, bone-achingly, pig-ignorant things.

We strive to point out the folly’s of the past and the present in a cohesive non partizan way that will educate, amuse and enlighten out viewers/readers. As Wikipedia says, “Often the target is examined by being held up for ridicule, typically in the hope of shaming it into reform.”

bonafide