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Gulliver's Travels Relevant Satire

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      In Gulliver's Travels, there are many pieces of satire that are still very relevant. One of these satires is the Acadamy, in which perfection is never achieved, as people from the Acadamy always mess up in some way shape, or form in their pursuit of perfection. This piece in my opinion is very accurate to the modern day as it can be applied to many aspects of our day-to-day lives. For starters, companies constantly do unnecessary things in order to be more advanced than one another, in turn changing and releasing things that aren't needed. An example of this is Apple where there seems to be a new phone being released constantly with minor improvements to the last that simply isn't worth the price tag. This makes some people turn away from the company as they see it as a cash grab more than an improvement, similar to how some of the residents dislike the Acadamy after they "improve" the already functional water wheel, and in th...