A condemnation of humankind (behavior, whimsies, etc). Not exactly my type of read and sometimes I felt ill-equipped to grapple with the political satire since I don't know the history and the source or particulars of the strife between the Whigs and the Tories. What I could relate to the current political arena and the base greed and general discourteousness of human beings (or brutes as Swift might have called them) I found interesting.