Stephen, posting on irreverence, calls Tshabalala Msimang a national embarrassment and Hogan a glimmer of hope.

In the entire 50 years of television that we studied, seven of 10 shows ranked most highly for irreverence appeared on air during the Vietnam War, five of the top 10 during the Nixon administration.

With all of that inherited and reconstructed identity, my extended family and my community instilled in me, in various languages and accents, this urge for irreverence and activism that no language can take away from me.

You have comfort, irreverence, and social commentary, not only battling it out in our society, but you literally have two establishment shows Gunsmoke and Gomer Pyle in 1969 are the number two and number three rated television shows.

Whether Socrates humility was sincere or a secret joke at the expense of the powers that be (before said powers put him to death after tiring of his irreverence), the point is that the beginning of wisdom lies in the recognition of how little we really know.