I love satire, good satire. Satire is a specialized form of comedy (come to think of it, it is hard to say when a humorous tale transforms into a satire). Like all comedy, satire can elicit a grin or a belly laugh, but it can also be humorless—which seems like a contradiction. But think of Gulliver’s Travels, Skin and Bones, and Juvenal’s Satires in the former, and in the latter case 1984, Brave New World, and We. One of the few things that Freud got right was that aggression, whether overtly or not, is the basis of humor, and the instrument of humor is often exaggeration or incompatibility.