It is helpful in a couple of ways: By committing Pat's fairy tale to writing, we can see how jejune their reductionist understanding of a nuanced issue is. If Pat thinks they are on the intellectual or comedic vanguard with this tepid fantasy, this reflects negatively either on Pat, the movement (under the parody) that Pat is hoping to buttress, or both. Furthermore, writing this probably helped Pat blow off a little steam, hopefully making Pat less likely to do something boneheaded in a non-cyber space.