LKM's stuff

So with Cow Clicker, while I understand that its primary goal is not to satirize, I am uneasy with the fact that Ian is wasting people’s actual time and money. I don’t think Kennedy’s KKK farce resulted in anyone sincerely joining the clan, and as for Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal - a satirical classic inviting the poor people of Ireland to sell their children as food - well, history does not record that anyone actually attempted this. But real, unsuspecting people do click those cows. And as for it being a fair bit of fun for those cow-clickers, the whole reason I’m opposed to these timesucks is that they are designed to feed on the addictive aspects of our poor li’l brains, fending off whatever defense mechanisms should tell us not to do this stupid thing over and over. I can’t really blame anyone for getting into it.

It’s not patently obvious that addictive social games such as Farmville and Cow Clicker are indeed bad; I may think so, but reasonable people may disagree. I’d just like to warn anyone who dislikes such things that satirizing them by essentially participating in them - worse, dragging more people into them! - is, for my money, the wrong sort of satire.