Since the dawning of civilizations, man has always experienced conflict with no actions to avoid it. For example, many conflicts are just based on a disagreement between two different groups of people, and those conflicts are blown way out of proportion. In fact, the opinions on environmentalism fall into the same category of conflict. Most of the time, there are two groups who have opposing opinions on environmentalism. These group’s opinions of each other has created a major ordeal, and they cannot seem to achieve anything productive. Instead, they steadily receive disagreement from each other. The author of The Future of Life, Edward O. Wilson, satirized the language of both the people-first critics and the environmentalists. Edward O. Wilson …show more content…
successfully utilizes satire that shows the undesirable and barren discussion of environmentalism through the use of satirical elements such as ironic parallelism and exaggeration. To help show how barren and unproductive each side of the two groups are, Wilson uses pathos to appeal to the emotions of the reader.
Both passages are using ironic parallelism to appeal to those emotions. For example, in the first passage, the people-first critics state, “Depending on how angry we are, we call the greens, enviros, environmental extremists, or environmental wackos.” On the other hand, the environmentalists state, “That may be what they call themselves, but we know them more accurately as anti-environmentalists and brown lashers or, more locally out west, wise users, and sagebrush rebels.” Also, the passages also name their opinions for each other’s agendas. For example, the people-first critics state, “ Their aim is to expand government, especially federal government.” On the other hand, the environmentalists state, “What they are really after, especially the corporate heads and big-time landowners, is unrestrained capitalism with land development iiber alles.” Through the use of his word choice, Wilson shows the amount of disagreement between the two groups. In fact, the groups are actually causing more problems instead of helping each other. All the examples can be seen as irony because the disagreement between the two groups repels them from finding a solution to fix the problem at hand. Overall, Wilson’s word choice is both juvenile and childish. Therefore, making the relationship between the two groups unproductive
discussions. Besides using ironic parallelism, Edward O. Wilson also uses exaggeration to achieve satire. He uses exaggeration to show how outrageously each group sees each other causing more problems. In the first passage, Wilson states, “Mark my word conservation pushed by these people always goes too far, because it is an instrument for gaining political power.” On the other hand, Wilson also states in the second passage that, “In claiming concern of any kind for the natural environment, these people are the worst bunch of hypocrites you’ll ever not want to find.” Both of the examples are over-exaggerated views of each other because of maybe one horrible experience in the past. Instead of finding a solution, both passages appeal to the emotions to help people agree with their side of the issue, and again, Wilson’s exaggerations are very juvenile and prevent the two groups from finding a solution to the problem. Therefore, they are still unproductive. There have been many times in history where a group of people has had an opinion based on experience, or they may have even over exaggerated the truth because they did not agree with another group. This is much like the relationship between the people-first critics and the environmentalists. Edward O. Wilson, author of The Future of Life, achieves satire of the two discussions by the use of ironic parallelism and exaggeration. Both groups have different opinions but cannot reach a solution making them unproductive. However, since Wilson uses satire, maybe one day both sides will find a solution to their problems on environmentalism.
“The Onion’s” mock press release on the MagnaSoles satirical article effectively attacks the rhetorical devices, ethos and logos, used by companies to demonstrate how far advertisers will go to convince people to buy their products. It does this by using manipulative, “scientific-sounding" terminology, comparisons, fabrication, and hyperboles.
Edward O. Wilson, the writer of this satire, writes about the opinions of two disagreeing sides to demonstrate the unproductive nature of these litigations. To do this, the author writes in a horatian manner and uses instances of exaggeration, parody, incongruity, and irony to help him convey his message that these arguments are pointless. The well distributed use of these strategies allows the writer to efficiently illustrate and mock the unproductive disagreement of these two groups of people.
“People who had incurred the displeasure of the party simply disappeared and were never heard of again.
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...t they are in opposition to each other irrationally. The two groups are "supposed" to be against each other socially, so they climb aboard without thinking for themselves. Our society is so over-ruled by what we supposedly should and shouldn't be that we forget that, if not always, sometimes, social standards are wrong. Wilson pokes fun at this situation because it happens so often.
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It’s no doubt that since the beginning of the new millennium and even before, environmental conservation has been a big issue. It only makes sense that people would hotly contest such a topic. Some argue that it might get a little too overblown sometimes, and others say we need to hear it more. Some, like Edward O. Wilson, just want to see an agreement met. In his 2002 book The Future of Life, Wilson satirizes the bull-headed and uncooperative criticism that the two sides often give each other. In his fictitious discourse, Wilson clearly demonstrates how a stalemate can occur between opposing extremes by using stylistic mirroring, over-the-top generalizations, and grandiose diction.