Satire

  The above picture is a satire. What can this weird, alien looking picture be a satire of, you ask? Well the answer is, this is us - sometime in the future.

  There has been many speculations concerning how the human kind, the homo sapiens, will be evolving. How did someone - someone unknown - come up with a picture like this? The answer is that this someone hypothesized the effects of smart phones on the human kind.

  Well, let's analyze this picture one step at a time. The first satirical part of the picture is the forefinger of this creature. It is extra long, and the tip of this finger is extra thick. Why? This is because it is the finger used to operate the smart phone. The same may be true for the thumb.

  Now, let's concentrate on the face. Our pupils will become enlarged since operating the smart phone requires us to use our eyes for a long, intensive period of time. Our ears will degenerate since we only need to listen to our earphones, and not other sounds of significance. We will have a multifiltered respiratory system because the air will be so polluted by what we do that we have to develop counter mechanisms ourselves.

  The next is our body. We will have a significantly larger body mass that comes from not doing anything at all, and seen from the picture. Our leg and arm muscles will become weak and atrophied because we no longer use them.

  So let's SOAPStone this satire. The subject of this satire is a futuristic view of human beings as a result of the constant presence and overuse of smart phones. Will be devolve because of our evolution and constant creations of new technology?

  The occasion of the satire, or under what context or time this satire was created, is our overuse of smart phones. The time is of course present day, in a modern, advanced, technological society.

  The audience may vary. The largest target group is of course people who depend on smart phones a lot, or people who allocate a large amount of time using or playing on smart phones. Other audiences may be those who have yet started to use smart phones. I would say, in general, everyone in society today is part of the audience for this satire.

  There may be many purposes for this satire. The first purpose is to warn people the possible effects of the overuse and dependency of smart phones through sarcasm and irony. The second is to perhaps laugh at and scorn the world for the overuse of smart phones.

  The speaker of this satire, as mentioned before, is unknown. I believe that it is mostly likely a scientist who is out to warn the global public of a possibly terrible phenomenon, or one who is out to laugh at and scorn the world for the overuse of smart phones, which are the possible purposes of the satire.

  The tone of the picture can be described as dark and gloomy, as if it were a premonition of an impending doom for human being. Perhaps it is true, perhaps it is not. But we never know, and it would be wise to take things into consideration before we chuck them out of our minds into the waste basket.