7/24/16 - An artist uses satire as a means to shock and offend an ignorant population into awareness of their current situation, usually through sarcasm, imposing the observation that such a population represents itself as fools. The concept is more important than, as it was taught to you, a trivial device of political warfare which is no more important than to make one side of an issue blush. Truly effective satire pierces the veil lying over a sociological reality to reveal that the entire scheme of such a reality is faulty. Most people are unaware that they assume that what their society has taught them is real knowledge. Is your local hospital available to save your life at any given time you might need it, as is the assumption of a child, or might it rob you of the little money that you have and toss you back out on to the street, where there is no active concern for your health? You can look at a hospital the way a child does, and it may prove true for your circumstance... But the dark side of the hospital's reality is that doctors demand large sums of money as a sociological principal of the economy, with an arrangement that forces less fortunate patients to hand over money they don't have. The child's assumption about the hospital is true - the purpose of a hospital is to take care of their health when they are in need. Philosophically, that is what the thing is - it is the realization of a human idea out of the need that it should exist. How well does the reality represent the idea? How hard does it try? Why should money have any effect on the application of the idea in its actual form, the hospital. A child does not consider such things as money, only the idea that a hospital represents. Who, reading this, is not a child? You are an adult, and you understand that money is a reality? What if you are an adult who has money? Is money still a reality? Or, in having money, are you allowed to use your imagination like a child and see the hospital simply for its intended purpose? Money is a sociological reality, it isn't philosophically real. Then, if there is a concern for ethics, money is to be eliminated from the hospital's function as to insure the integrity of its purpose, as a goal in achieving the ideal. This example of intellectual sarcasm serves as a satire of the current economic issue imposed by capitalistic enterprise to the pure concept of health care. The only way you can hold a contradictory opinion is to declare yourself as unethical ;) |