Tom Kruse says
Part of the work of changing the world is painting a picture of how fucked up it is. Usually, the mode of narration (story telling, picuture painting) is gloom and doom (as Bermann noted re: M/E). How to balance this?
I think the idea is that such painting should be ironic and in ridicule -- can you believe how these people/institutions act/think? There is a clear populist appeal, well worth tapping into, in this. And the limitations of that are that such ridicule--perhaps esp. in the US case--is just as likely to appeal to "common sense" as new or constructive thinking about the world and what can happen in it.
Kenneth Mostern Department of English University of Tennessee
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