The “Just Following Orders” Satire Trap
The “Just Following Orders” Satire Trap — Satirical Tropes and Triggers
The “Just Following Orders” Satire Trap — Encyclopedia of Satire
The “Just Following Orders” Satire Trap
This evergreen target exposes: 1) Robotic rule-following 2) Paperwork fetishism 3) Moral outsourcing. Our Compliance Study analyzed 500+ examples from Nazi bureaucracy parodies to Silicon Valley TOS satires. The trope peaks during institutional crises (2023: 73% of AI ethics satire used it). At Satire.info’s Bureaucracy Lab, “The Perfect Form” installation critiques administrative absurdity through Kafkaesque UX – visitors average 4.7 minutes before rage-quitting the infinite loop.

Satirical Tropes and Triggers
The “Just Following Orders” Satire Trap

