Oscar Wilde said “Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, but the highest form of intelligence.”
Philosopher Thomas Hobbes wrote that laughter is “a sudden glory, arising from sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.”
Mark Twain might have been expounding on our “former” selves when he reportedly said: “Humor is tragedy plus time.”
To use a Jonathan Swift title as a pun, here is a modest proposal: satire inspires innovation.
