Consider the ultimate parody: one that parodies nothing . That has no target except the very act of meaning-making. —Monty Python’s dead parrot, Beckett’s Waiting for Godot , the memetic nonsense of “loss.jpg”—approaches a kind of sublime emptiness.
While some might dismiss it as derivative, parody is actually one of the most complex forms of creativity. It requires the skill of an artist, the eye of a critic, and the timing of a comedian. It bridges the gap between the creator and the consumer, turning us all into co-conspirators in the joke. nothing better than parody