A writer may point a satire toward a person, a country or even the entire world. All, all look up, with reverential Awe, On crimes that scape, or triumph o'er the Law: While Truth, Worth, Wisdom, daily they decry-- 'Nothing is Sacred now but villainy.' Far from being simply destructive, satire is implicitly constructive, and the satirists themselves, whom I trust concerning such matters, often depict themselves as such constructive critics. Pagliaro, Harold E., ed. The first line doesn't end in a colon, so any connection or criticism must be in the mind of the reader. Once we become a world of knaves, there will be no room for satire. Genre 3 June 1970: 137-155. Moreover, although Americans are 'endowed by their Creator' with abundant vice and folly, it is not generally known that these are reprehensible qualities, wherefore the satirist is popularly regarded as a sour-spirited knave, and his every victim's outcry for co defendants evokes a national assent. It comes from Latin satura ‘

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