http://www.popandpolitics.com/2009/02/25/celebrating-bill-hicks-1961-1994/ Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:50:32 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.popandpolitics.com/2009/02/25/celebrating-bill-hicks-1961-1994/comment-page-1/#comment-12285 Carla Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:04:40 +0000 http://www.popandpolitics.com/?p=11810#comment-12285 Hicks was fabulous. It is nice to be able to point to something good that came out of the Reagan. Bush era. Some arts may wither under political and economic pressure, but satire flourishes. It gets both its material and its social utility from those in power. Sometimes the jester is the only one who can poke fun at the king. I am interested to see if the jester's of our new Obama era will have to say. Will they be satirists who are unafraid to tell us when the emperor isn't wearing any clothes? Or will we get more of the sad racism like the New York Post's dead monkey cartoon? Hicks was fabulous. It is nice to be able to point to something good that came out of the Reagan. Bush era. Some arts may wither under political and economic pressure, but satire flourishes. It gets both its material and its social utility from those in power. Sometimes the jester is the only one who can poke fun at the king. I am interested to see if the jester’s of our new Obama era will have to say. Will they be satirists who are unafraid to tell us when the emperor isn’t wearing any clothes? Or will we get more of the sad racism like the New York Post’s dead monkey cartoon?

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