By Selwyn Duke
Sometimes, as is said, if you don’t laugh, you’ll cry. It’s also true that, as with British writer Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal,” humor can often be an excellent way to change minds. In this vein, there’s a new parody for the “Kaufman Institute for Coincidence” (KIC) that deals with a certain type of high-tech snake oil ostensibly designed to ward off a certain type of boogeyman infectious disease. It’s that snake oil you’re never, ever supposed to mention in a negative light lest you be censored by social media (thus do I often call it the “Voldemort Agent”), a squelching of freedom which, we can be sure, is just another coincidence.
The video packs a lot into its two minutes, and opens with a runner suddenly clutching his heart and the narrator asking, “Are you or a loved one suffering from a medical coincidence? You want proper medical care but you don’t want people sniffing around asking a whole bunch of questions about what might be causing your problem. At the Kaufman Institute for Coincidence, we won’t look into the cause of your heart or other problem. We’ll just fix it.”
The parody is funny and professionally done, but to relate more would be to issue spoilers. So without further ado, here’s the video....
Watch the parody and read the rest here.
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