Question Authority ... the MAD way!

Every once in a while, somebody in class who got hold of an issue of MAD magazine would share it with the rest of us.  The craziest thing is that this was back in a small industrial town in India, about thirty-five to forty years ago.  It was a time when anything "foreign" was rare.  If that was the case in India in the 1970s, I wonder how it would have been in the USSR or East Germany, or North Korea even now.

Like most of us who read that then, sometimes under the table while the teacher went about doing her work, I was fascinated with the humor. It was bold, brash, with an attitude that only later in life I learnt to describe: a fuck-you attitude.

An attitude that couldn't care about the powers.  Questioning authority and anything that was considered off-limits.

The magazine is now a senior-citizen.  Sixty years old.  But, I bet it gets people of all ages, as long as they love the humor in questioning authority.

Sometimes, I worry that the youth now do not seem to want to question authority.  Has the proliferation of various means of keeping ourselves amused pretty much extinguished the sparks?  But, hey, what, me worry? :)