If the all the satire we consumed and created was comfortable - familiar, digestible, immediately funny - the world would be a grayscale echo chamber. To push the boundaries of what we see and feel, it is important to be critical not just of those groups that you see as worthy of critique, but also of yourself, and the groups that you are part of.

 

What makes you uncomfortable? Where do you feel most inadequate? Around who, and under what circumstances?

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What would someone who wasn't part of your inner circle say about you? What logical inconsistencies do you find among those who ascribe to your particular brand of being? 

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Satirize that. 

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The true beauty of satire is not it's ability to enlarge what we already see; it is to illuminate our own biases, and shortcomings. Besides, if we fail to implicate ourselves in our critique, and point only to people that are strangers and symbols that are unfamiliar, well, we wouldn't be very funny. And we'd just be jerks.

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