Satire: literary or dramatic form in which human or individual vices, follies or abuses are examined, using burlesque, irony, parody, humour and caricature, sometimes with an intent to inspire social reform. Stories, verses, dialogues for the Satirocene Age from Vancouver Island, Canada. (Posted by F. Jardine or guests)
Sunday 24 October 2021
The Misanthropy Sector
Friday 8 October 2021
At the Pet Shop
Thursday 7 October 2021
Strutting and Fretting on the BC Law Society's Stage ("compelled pronoun usage")
Wednesday 6 October 2021
City Life -- What do we want in a next door neighbour?
Tuesday 28 September 2021
First Year University, and the Snowflakes are Experiencing Meltdowns
Wednesday 15 September 2021
Colonies and Canadian Indigenous Groups
Recent Social Studies Essay Topic in BC Schools - Impacts of the
Colonial Era on Indigenous Canadians
Proposition: No positive impacts resulted
from the colonial period of Canadian history*, so discontinuation of institutions and services originating in colonial times, and eviction of descendants of European settlers, is advisable. DISCUSS.
Describe your vision of Canadian life after the following colonialist
institutions are banned:
Legislative assemblies, Parliament, elected representation
Courts of Law, trial by jury, equal rights legislation, Legal Aid
Land Title Offices and property acquisition (except through raids and warfare)
Income Assistance/welfare
ferry service (e.g. BC Ferries)
trains
cars (and everything else involving wheels)
electricity
building maintenance
road maintenance
banks
farms (food henceforth to be gathered, dug, or killed by spear)
wineries, breweries, pubs, orchestras
dentistry, surgery, medical imaging, pharmacies, painkilling pharmaceuticals
schools, universities, professional degrees, science labs
books, publishing, literacy and computers
Supplementary Question: Should governments dictate the Correct Study of History, and the content of school curricula?
* "Mother Fuming" -- https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/prince-george-school-assignment-colonies-indigenous-1.6176059
Sunday 12 September 2021
Muses File Complaint Against BC Museum
Responding to the filing of museum employees' human rights complaint, the nine classical Muses have accused the Museum of racist discrimination against THEIR heritage and culture: “As our home (“Seat of the Muses”), a Museum should be sheltering and protecting us, not throwing us to ethnic and identitarian wolves”, says Calliope, Chief of the Muses.
In a document crafted by Melpomene (Muse of Tragedy), Thalia (Comedy) and Polyhymnia (Rhetoric), the group charges that they are victims of hate speech and ethnic cleansing.
“Clio, Muse of History, is the particular target of hate speech." Many people have already claimed that “History Is Dead”, and now they wish also to eradicate History's mother, Mnemosyne (Memory).
Although Clio's enemies try to “disappear” her she keeps recurring. “History is what it was,” she assures supporters. She leaves a trail of documents, letters, songs, memoirs, statues, gravestones, globes and charts so that scholarly detectives can still trace her to places where her enemies have imprisoned her. These scholars often work under cover, secret-agent style.
The Muses, filing their complaint with the Rights Agency, have documented civil rights abuses by chapter and verse, confirms Euterpe, Muse of Verse.
“We will not let the judge dance around the issues,” vows Terpsichore, Muse of Dance.
“We'll sing our own praises,” add Erato and Melpomene (Song and Speech).
Their children (Orpheus and the Sirens) will with their world-music band of that name mark the launch of the Muses' Rights Complaint with a celebratory concert at Mount Olympus Park. The human race is invited to attend.
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