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The philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau devoted much of his writing to creating portraits of innocence, virtue, and integrity as counterpoints to his scathing critique of the corruption, flattery, and hypocrisy that afflicted the social and political life in his view.
Examples include C. E. M. Joad's 1927 book The Babbitt Warren, a scathing critique of American society, [29] and Vachel Lindsay's 1922 poem "The Babbitt Jambouree." [22] Elizabeth Stevenson referenced the character in the title of her popular history of the 1920s, Babbitts and Bohemians: From the Great War to the Great Depression. [30]
Bong Joon Ho wrote and directed this scathing critique of the food industry that The New York Times named one of the most influential films of the 2010s. Watch Now. See the original post on Youtube.
Social criticism can also be expressed in a fictional form, e.g. in a revolutionary novel like The Iron Heel (1908) by Jack London; in dystopian novels like Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932), George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 (1953), or Rafael Grugman's Nontraditional Love (2008); or in children's books or films.
CNBC reporter Rick Santelli may have been brave enough to talk about a revolt against the Obama administration's proposal to help homeowners, but apparently he's afraid to face Jon Stewart.
He added, "This is the ultimate example of a boys' club." The critique is reminiscent of something Sharon Osbourne said in March 2019: The former "AGT" and "X Factor" host said that Simon Cowell ...
(later published in Consider the Lobster), novelist David Foster Wallace wrote a scathing critique of Toward the End of Time. Wallace wrote: It is, of the total 25 Updike books I've read, far and away the worst, a novel so mind-bendingly clunky and self-indulgent that it's hard to believe the author let it be published in this kind of shape.
Animal rights organization PETA published a scathing critique of a group of Chinese researchers on Thursday, accusing them of using live animals as crash test dummies.