{"id":78350,"date":"2021-06-16T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78350"},"modified":"2021-06-15T08:08:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T13:08:49","slug":"art-imitates-life-imitates-art-imitates-sitd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78350","title":{"rendered":"Art Imitates Life Imitates Art Imitates SITD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The world has become too absurd to be satirized<\/em>
– G.K. Chesterton<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When live imitates satire – why write satire?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pinky swear – when I started writing the various “Berg’s Laws<\/a>“, something like 17 years ago, they started out as wry quips. Sarcastic bits of bemused satire. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn’t expect every last one of them to turn out to be iron-clad descriptions of modern political and human behavior. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s made things a little…difficult? It’s no doubt thrown a monkey wrench at satirists like the Babylon Bee<\/em>, who no doubt didn’t set out on their mission intended to become America’s best actual news source. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Bee’s <\/em>edtior, Seth Dillon, comments on not only how often, but how quickly, the arc of the news turned toward exactly what the Bee <\/em>started by mocking:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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