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== Real Life ==

* Despite being a self-proclaimed [[Misanthrope Supreme]] who wrote entire books dedicated to proving ([[Black Humor|quite hilariously]]) that [[Humans Are the Real Monsters]], [[Jonathan Swift]] nevertheless spent much of his life trying to help the powerless and dispossessed. He particularly tried to help the [[Once-Acceptable Targets|Irish]] - [[Values Dissonance|even the Catholic ones]] - having seen himself (~~) exactly how wretchedly they lived. s~~ an Anglo-Irishman born in Dublin.

* Despite being a self-proclaimed [[Misanthrope Supreme]] who wrote entire books dedicated to proving ([[Black Humor|quite hilariously]]) that [[Humans Are the Real Monsters]], [[Jonathan Swift]] nevertheless spent much of his life trying to help the powerless and dispossessed. He particularly tried to help the [[Once-Acceptable Targets|Irish]] - [[Values Dissonance|even the Catholic ones]] - having seen himself (as an Anglo-Irishman born in Dublin) exactly how wretchedly they lived.

** Worth spelling out that Swift was the Dean of Dublin Cathedral, and thus a high official in the Episcopalian church - which at the time believed that ''all Catholics would go to hell.'' (And it gets better - the Deanship was really a political appointment, so he was not just going against the policy of the Church, but of the State as well.)

* The official philosopher of this view must be Joseph de Maistre, who wrote in his ''St. Petersburg Dialogues'':