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A Modest Proposal: For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729. Swift appears to suggest in his essay that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies. By doing this he mocks the authority of the British officials.

>> No.456697

he's right though
it would work

>> No.456711

>>456697
Main problem is that according to his proposal, you wouldn't live.

>> No.456723

God I love that essay. Swift should have run an 18th century Onion newspaper.

>> No.456727

I dunno, Swift and the Scriblerians seem like kind of dicks to me

>> No.456729

according to malthus more than half of the worlds population could technically not exist, because there is not enough food available.

>> No.456736
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456736

Swift is the greatest troll to have ever lived.
if you can get through it, read A Tale of a Tub
this is you at the end of the book

>> No.456737

>>456727
>>456727
get the fuck out of here

>> No.456821

>>456736
SIR YOU HAVE ARMS GROWING OUT OF WHERE YOUR EARS SHOULD BE SIR
SIR YOU HAVE EARMS

>> No.456834

>>456737

hurhurhur let's all be pretentious motherfuckers that mock people

kind of like /lit/ though

>> No.457257

>>456834
I wonder why you're such an idiot.

>> No.457280

Junius> Swift
>The government of England is a government of law. We betray ourselves, we contradict the spirit of our laws, and we shake the whole system of English jurisprudence, whenever we entrust a discretionary power over the life, liberty, or fortune of the subject to any man, or set of men, whatsoever, upon a presumption that it will not be abused.