Maggie McKneely's Reviews > The Congresswomen

Sometimes I forget history and think “wow people are entertained by such degenerate humour nowadays.” And then I read an Aristophanes play and remember “lol nah we’ve been laughing at the same things for thousands of years.”

Bawdy as they may be, Aristophanes’ plays are also chock-full of uncomfortable political truths, and this one is no exception. The underlying premise is that democracy inevitably leads to the rule of the inferior over the superior, which degrades both. Tocqueville said the same thing millennia later, and looking at the current state of America, it’s hard to argue with.