This is a four part satirical send up of like the travel log or travel novel genre. Gulliver only really stumbles upon established societies. Just wanted to push back against this idea that the rugged individual man came first and then society was built on top of that.
Meet Gulliver, a traveling English surgeon. First he's big, then he's small. Next he's wise, then he's a Yahoo! To wit, Swift's seminal satire is realer, grosser, and really grosser than either of us knew.
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