Worth Watching
Kill Tony
Have You Seen the Kill Tony podcast? I hadn’t until JM recommended it to me, saying, “It’s political satire, but you’ll like it.”
I did like it.
It has the three necessary elements to make political satire do its job (which is to open our minds by reducing our fears and prejudices):
* It must be timely – about topics people care about.
* It must hold a mirror up to life, as the Bard said – i.e., it must depict the target realistically.
* Its fundamental mission is to unify, not divide.
* Its fundamental emotion is tolerance, not derision.
Here’s a recent example.