Re: Tom Lehrer again

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2025 14:43:07 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 > https://www.rogerebert.com/tributes/life-is-like-a-piano-tom-lehrer-1928-2005

It's interesting to think that my Grandfather liked Tom Lehrer.  And
I know he was a conservative.  I really cannot imagine most conservatives
these days appreciating this sort of sarcasm these days; actually, some
liberals have a hard time with sarcasm, too, but probably more than
conservatives.  Seems like many people have just learned not to appreciate
sarcasm or to even question their own institutions or reality.  (I guess
Bill Maher falls into a special category where you can be a centralist and
still be sarcastic, even if sometimes he punches "down" instead of
punching "up".)

Didn't Caroline Casey have something to say about satire?  Something about
the idea of keeping two contradictory ideas in your head at the same time?
You have to think hard to understand sarcasm.