But the best way to ensure the death of social criticism is to declare that some beliefs are too sacred to be mocked.
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His favourite scene was where Penny, carrying a dead cowboy, rode through the rain to apply for the dead man's job, only to be mocked.
Instead, sets for entire rooms spanning kitchens to bathrooms to porches can be mocked up and created on a computer screen without the help of a single camera.
But both to victims of abuse and to people who observe church affairs from outside, the spate of disclosures has mocked the Vatican's claim to be a fount of moral authority and have made it harder to see why the church insists on restricting the priesthood to celibate males.
Romney was roundly mocked in that race for claiming to be a lifelong hunter of "small varmints" like rabbits and rodents.
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Yet the idea--easily mocked though it may be--refuses to die.
So although a significant degree of skepticism is warranted with regards to the Eurasian Union, the Russian government has a very long history of grandiose projects that have floundered on the rocks of reality, its program of liberalization actually strikes me as a modestly progressive one that ought to be welcomed, not a neo-Soviet one that should be mocked.
It sort of mocked the Japanese and sort reassured Americans that there was going to be an easy victory.
Mr Lebed might be wise, however, to stay away in Siberia while politicians in Moscow are mocked and buffeted by events.
It will be a perverse delight to see the regulator overwhelmed and the politicians, who applauded themselves so loudly today, mocked tomorrow.
For those 10 million people who will be buying the iPhone 5, it looks to me like they have turned into the very drones that Apple mocked in 1984.
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