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The satirist isn't just looking at things ironically but militantly - he wants to change them, and intends to have an effect on the world.

Martin Amis
World, Want, Effects
"New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline". Interview with David Wallace-Wells, www.vulture.com. July 22, 2012.
The satirist isn't just looking at things ironically but militantly - he wants to change them, and intends to have an effect on the world.