>>The New Yorker is famous for cartoons that specialize in being so esoteric that those who get them get a tingle from knowing they are so superior to people who probably *don't* live Manhatten who could never be sophisticated enough, sufficiently post-modern, or adequately drenched in irony to begin to understand them.
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>>I would imagine when the cover was presented to David Remick and anyone expressed reservations he said "Screw 'em, they probably live in New Jersey."
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>I don't find New Yorker cartoons nearly that elitist. Once in a while there will be a head scratcher but most of them are pretty easy to understand.
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>I have dropped a lot of magazines but doubt I will ever let the New Yorker subscription lapse.
Okay, a little hyperbole. I like the New Yorker - just not some of the Manhatten mindset. But I am sure that the cover was seen as "If somebody is too stupid to not know this is deliberate outrageous satire then they are too stupid to read the New Yorker and the publicity will be worth a million sales."
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
