Without evidence of benefit, an intervention should not be presumed to be beneficial or safe.

- Rogue Medic

Deadpool – maybe it only hurts when you laugh, but you laugh anyway

 

What if you took an extremely sarcastic person and made him a god? You could have a triple R rated success.

Horace Walpole has a great quote, that seems to baffle the sanctimonious –

The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel.

Jonathan Swift and Lewis Carroll might regret that this movie only skims the surface in its satire, but they had to use satire to avoid prosecution for blasphemy, heresy, and other thought crimes that are trying for a comeback.

Marvel vs. DC. iPhone vs. Android. Fire vs. private vs. hospital. Little-Endian vs. Big-Endian and High Heels vs. Low Heels.[1] Mine is the One True WhateverTM.
 

Deadpool kneel before Zod sign 1a
Best still of Deadpool at Comic Con

 


 

Election season is the perfect time for Deadpool to be in theaters, because the preachers, pundits, and politicians are more absurd and obscene than anything in the movie.
 

Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.[2]

 

Deadpool doesn’t even try to fit the right wing or left wing politically correct model. The preachers, pundits, and politicians claim that the greater obscenities they promote are virtues. Perhaps they are so ridiculous, they no longer need others to ridicule them.

 

Alice laughed. “There’s no use trying,” she said: “one can’t believe impossible things.”

“I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”[3]

 
 

We should soon see an honest emulation among the married women, which of them could bring the fattest child to the market. Men would become as fond of their wives, during the time of their pregnancy, as they are now of their mares in foal, their cows in calf, or sow when they are ready to farrow; nor offer to beat or kick them (as is too frequent a practice) for fear of a miscarriage.[4]

 

If you work in a medical field, you should have seen enough misery to have an appreciation of a dark sense of humor and an understanding of the fraud of treating others as less deserving because they are in some way different.

A world of collateral damage is a comedy. Some of us keep going for the even bigger laugh of the bigger body count.

A world of starvation is a comedy. Some of us oppose using GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) to prevent the even bigger laugh of the bigger body count.

A world of death by preventable illness is a comedy. Some of us oppose using vaccines to prevent the even bigger laugh of the bigger body count.

The truly twisted sense of humor is not the obscenity in this movie, but the sanctimony of those encouraging killing, in the name of whatever, while claiming to be good.

Footnotes:

[1] Part I, Chapter IV
Mildendo, the metropolis of Lilliput, described, together with the emperor’s palace. A conversation between the author and a principal secretary, concerning the affairs of that empire. The author’s offers to serve the emperor in his wars.
Gulliver’s Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World (1726)
Jonathan Swift
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Chapter IV
 

For,” said he, “as flourishing a condition as we may appear to be in to foreigners, we labour under two mighty evils: a violent faction at home, and the danger of an invasion, by a most potent enemy, from abroad.

 

[2] The Preface of the Author
A Full and True Account of the Battle Fought Last Friday Between the Ancient and the Modern Books in Saint James’s Library. (1704)
Jonathan Swift
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Introduction

[3] Chapter 5: Wool and Water
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871)
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
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Chapter 5

[4] A Modest Proposal for preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick (1729)
Jonathan Swift
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Comments

  1. Great post. I prefer my baby to be of the Irish and male type and fricasseed. 😉