Without a blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of extremism or fundamentalism that someone won't mistake for the real thing.[2]
The core of Poe's law is that a parody of something extreme by nature becomes impossible to differentiate from sincere extremism. A corollary of Poe's law is the reverse phenomenon: sincere fundamentalist beliefs being mistaken for a parody of that belief.
Если я правильно поняла этот закон и его следствие, то это про тот случай, когда реальность настолько нелепа или заковыриста, что ее принимают за шутку. И наоборот, любую, самую идиотскую шутку принимают за реальность. Ну да, именно так, буду знать!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
Poe's law, in broader form, is:
Without a blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of extremism or fundamentalism that someone won't mistake for the real thing.[2]
The core of Poe's law is that a parody of something extreme by nature becomes impossible to differentiate from sincere extremism. A corollary of Poe's law is the reverse phenomenon: sincere fundamentalist beliefs being mistaken for a parody of that belief.
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