I just got to thinking... how far back does the baby-eating go? And, did his idea for his satire come from dark legends/rumors/truths?
People were horrified by the satire.
Anyway, it just popped into my mind. Any Jonathan Swift experts able to share any insights?
Yes. Each generation performs a functional part of the Dialectic progression by design. It is not coincidental that each successive generation of recent history is "more left" than the generation before. However, that suggests that our current ideas of "leftism" are the ultimate goal. I do not think so, or rather, not entirely. Indeed, in the 1920s society was very left oriented, close to what we have today. The generation after them became the starting point for a purposeful "new right" push. This led, a couple generations later, to hippyism and the new left, where we have progressed, in a back and forth manner, since.
But this has happened before, many times. Once you realize that society is led by propaganda, and all propaganda is controlled by the Cabal, it becomes easily appreciated that the "social cycle" is just as contrived as the business cycle with an end goal in mind.
The end goal, of course, is "Utopia." The dialectic was first put forth as an organic social process. The idea was that society would automatically oppose any idea put forth, and these debates would lead organically to a Utopian world. But what if you have a specific end goal in mind? What if you take that goal, then turn the dialectic on its head, starting with the Utopia of your design, and working backwards, filling in each "Thesis" and "Antithesis" as a purposeful design to lead to the "Synthesis" you desire at each step. I think of it like working a maze backwards. It's a lot easier to work it backwards than forwards. I suggest it is the same with the dialectic.
I think the ultimate goal of Utopia isn't really what we think of as "left" or "right." Perhaps more left than right, but also... not really. I think the real goal is more inline with where "the left" and "the right" agree. The things that no one argues about at all.