Alain De Botton Humorists

The goal of the humorists is to bring laughter and happiness to the audiences while delivering news to the society. Humorists do not hesitate to deliver their messages even if the messages are dangerous or impossible to state directly. Moreover, they are essential and powerful as the messages they conveyed can influence the viewpoint of the audiences towards particular issue. Thus, in his 2004 book Status Anxiety, Alain de Botton argues that humorists are vital to the society. However, from time to time the humorous messages might be exaggerated and have added fictional information to attract the attention of the audiences; consequently, these messages would offend a particular group of audience. For example, the Charlie Hebdo Shooting, massacre of famous French humorists, occurred because the Muslim killers believed that the humorous cartoons had violated their religion. Overall, humorists might not be admirable because of exaggerations in their work; nevertheless, humorists are vital to the society because they will reveal the truth to the public even if the task is risky. …show more content…
For instance, Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical magazine company, published its magazine in 2013 with the cover stating “Quran is ‘shit’.” Furthermore, the cover features a Muslim holding the Quran to block incoming bullets and states that the Koran is not going to stop the them. The message behind this cover was to condemn the extreme Muslims for slaughtering in Egypt. However, the cover exaggerates the issue by criticizing and mocking the entire Islamic religion. As a result, Muslims were angry and offended by the Charlie Hebdo magazine. Eventually several of the Muslims launched the Charlie Hebdo Shooting, the massacre of Charlie Hebdo humorists. Thus, the humorists are misleading for conveying misleading