Importance Of Satire To A Successful Life

This satire was created for the intention of changing the mindset of students, children, and adults who are convinced the only way to a successful and happy life is to go to the best college. This satire is meant to give a glimpse into what they believe to be the only way of life and show what the world would look like if their fears were played out and how unrealistic they are. The cartoon would not be recommended to show to people of highly ranked colleges because the purpose is not to insult the people who are in a college or profession they have dreamed of, but rather to remind the people who are aspiring to go to colleges or professions solely for the title of ‘success’ that there are so many other ways to live a joyful life. Therefore this cartoon should be

My cartoon is an illustration of many elderly people in an old people's home, sitting around and bragging of the colleges they went to with a distortion of a huge smile as their caricature, expressing they are far more happier than the ones who did not go to as good of school or did not get as good of degree. While the ones of the good colleges, or the ‘successful’ ones, ridicule the conversations of the less successful who speak of seeing their children and traveling the world, which, to most people, are a huge enrichment to the human experience. The more successful ones mock the less successful by expressing it is better to have fewer relationships with anyone and have not even considered “wasting (their) time” traveling. The more successful would rather work to achieve more degrees that will eventually die with them is intended to be a sarcastic detail of the piece. Along with the use of reductio ad absurdum, when all of the successful characters enthusiastically agree with each other and the less successful are displayed as not as happy but content, expresses they have enjoyed their life and are at peace. In contrast, the more successful, who are in a