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	Podcast:		A Point of View
	Episode:		The Purpose of Satire
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:10:06
	Publish Date:		2015-02-13 15:00:00
	Description:		Will Self finds himself driven to reconsider the nature and purpose of satire in the wake of the murders at Charlie Hebdo in Paris. "The paradox is this: if satire aims at the moral reform of a given society it can only be effective within that particular society; and furthermore only if there's a commonly accepted ethical hierarchy to begin with. A satire that demands of the entire world that it observe the same secularist values as the French state is a form of imperialism like any other.".
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