About those Ancient Tweets

In your last post, Bryan, on the topic of Tweets and satire generally, you write you

just have no stomach . . . for anything that looks like making light of real problems, or for using broken things as a means of displaying one’s wit. . . . It’s too easy to mock, to declare something irredeemable. It’s fun and dramatic to make sweeping and damning statements unaccompanied by new insights or solutions or alternatives.

I appreciate that perspective, but I also wonder if the cutting wit isn’t itself the insight. I’d propose that in some cases the act of calling out the game helps others see something they may have simply taken for granted, or taken as a hardened truth instead of as a point of negotiation where they didn’t before. Can’t that be considered progress or at least a catalyst toward same?