Please be careful posting this. Based on the last US election results, there may be more people who don't realize this is satire and try to paperclip it onto Project 2025.
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Swift's essay is widely held to be one of the greatest examples of sustained irony in the history of English literature.
Not your everyday irony, but sustained irony.
I only consume 100% organic, locally produced, sustainable irony.
The reading is a short pamphlet linked below. Warning that, for a work from the 1700's, the reveal paragraph is pretty nauseating.
It is probably more relevant today in the US as a modest proposal to the abortion problem that it also claims to solve!
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1080/pg1080-images.html
Wow, so this was sarcastic social commentary I assume right?
Correct. It was satirical commentary.