Difference between revisions of "Poe's Law"
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<blockquote>Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of [[Fundamentalism]] that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing.</blockquote> | <blockquote>Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of [[Fundamentalism]] that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing.</blockquote> | ||
| − | More generally, it refers to any speech which is sufficiently dogmatic as to be indistinguishable from parody. | + | More generally, it refers to any speech which is sufficiently dogmatic -- or sufficiently extreme in its extrapolation of an ideology -- as to be indistinguishable from parody. (Such parody would then be a form of [[reductio ad absurdum]].) |
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Revision as of 12:29, 20 June 2010
Overview
Poe's Law is an adage which states, in its original form:
Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing.
More generally, it refers to any speech which is sufficiently dogmatic -- or sufficiently extreme in its extrapolation of an ideology -- as to be indistinguishable from parody. (Such parody would then be a form of reductio ad absurdum.)
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Reference
Wikipedia- as of 2009-06-29, article had been deleted multiple times
- as of 2009-10-10, redirects to a page which lists Edgar Allen Poe's law "That there is a maximum desirable length for poems".
- RationalWiki