Do you think that plays (with farce and satire) pose a threat to the government?

Question

How would you react if you were the government figure being satirized?

Answer 1

nope. not a threat.

One has to assume when they begin to enter the public arena that they will be subject to satire. It is an occupational hazard. You run for office, you hang a comedy target on your back.

I think If I were the one being made fun of...I would laugh right along with it. Poliitcians have to have a pretty thick skin...

Answer 2

A THREAT?

How so?

Please type "Constitution of the United States of America" into your favorite search engine, and locate a copy.

Read it, paying special attention to the Preamble (the purposes for which the government was constituted), and the first ten ammendments.

No, farce and satire do no post a threat to the government. It is not a threat to the government to speak one's mind, either directly or with satire.

Doing both is at the very foundation of this country.

Thinking it is somehow a threat is itself a threat to all this country stands for.

How would I react? Well, I'm pretty thin-skinned. Thus, it would never occur to me to put myself in the public eye.

People who do have to accept criticism -- after all, you want strangers to love you and think you're important, you have to accept that not all will.

Answer 3

Any government that cannot take satire and farce is weak, indeed. Satire has been used for centuries even in BCE.

Many of the nursery rhymes kids sing or we teach them were satiracle criticisms of some royal government. One did not dare criticize Queen Elizabeth I if they wished to keep their head. So to pass along criticism the nursery rhymes and silly songs were made because the royals and their lackies didn't catch on thinking these songs and rhymes just the babbling of the peasants. Shakespear, however got away with needling royalty but he was not worried as the queen was one of his benefactors. Elizabeth's government did not crumble because of it. Instead the British began what would one day be called the British Empire.

Answer 4

If I know it was a farce or a satire then I'd laugh and ask the people who directed and casted the play didn't let me star in it and make fun of myself. I don't think they pose a threat to the government, unless radical groups take them seriously, or people just don't understand the humor.

Answer 5

When you embark upon a carreer in public life, you have to accept a certain amount of satire aimed your way. The best example i can think of is the Steven Colbert Appearance at teh White House Correspondents Dinner, where, with Bush in attendance, he thoroughly skewered him. It's around on the internet, and it's truly hilarious.

Answer 6

Absolutely not. Farce and satires are to entertain, simple like that. People get made fun of on a daily basis, people get a "kick" out of it. It doesn't mean they're gonna do anything about it, they're just amusing theirselves and others.

Answer 7

absolutly.