Did you know that authoritarian leaders and regimes don’t appreciate humour?
Especially when it’s directed against them.
“On no account may humorists ridicule the activities of the Party… Not a shadow of blame or mockery must affect the glorious native Party, which deserves to be esteemed and loved to a supreme degree” - The Hoover Institute.
Sounds like Goebbels and Miller.
Have you noticed that what brings glee to dictators and their followers is making or watching people suffer?
But jokes or satire… no! They outlaw it.
I read a story recently of a judge in Nazi Germany suddenly breaking out in restrained laughter. His friend asked him why he was laughing. He said that in court today, he charged a man with insurrection for telling a certain joke… therefore, it would be unlawful for him to repeat it.
Did you know that there are cartoonists around the world imprisoned for their cartoons? Four were just arrested in Turkey the other day for criticizing the regime through their art.
How many artists, writers, poets, musicians, cartoonists, journalists… any kind of creator… are in prison or worse because of their critique of authority?
I googled it. Thousands!
Remember Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator speech?
“Fascist art glorifies surrender, it exalts mindlessness, it glamorizes death.” - Susan Sontag, On Women.
All this to say… being creative is anti-surrender, anti-mindlessness, anti-death!
Therefore, anti-authoritarian!
It shouts freedom.
I think of that scene in the movie Gandhi when he was trying to figure out a way to challenge the British authorities. Suddenly, an idea comes to him. He scoops up a handful of salt from the edge of the sea. (The British took their salt and sold it back to them.) So, Gandhi decides to undertake the Salt March to protest colonialist rule and produce their own salt.
Just a little handful of salt started it all.
How creative is that?
I’ve served several authoritarian spiritual leaders. I would poke fun at them… or at us… and at the ministries. You know… self-deprecation. I thought it was funny. They did not. I was punished. You’re FIRED!
That’s why I’ll continue creating my cartoons, like Overturning. 
