There is no irony, parody, or satire when so much real life has become so ludicrous as to be beyond even irony, parody, and satire. From Charles Hugh Smith at oftwominds.com:
Let’s dispense with human presidential candidates and conventions, and replace both the candidates and their supporters with idealized AI fabrications.
The Show Must Go On, but I’m not really enjoying the show. One reason why is I Keep Changing Channels But It’s Still the Same Program, i.e. the programming and marketing are now homogenized. Another is Even the Aliens Are Boring, i.e. everything is so sensationalized and hyped that we are now desensitized to it all.
A third reason is our culture has perfected the craft of self-parody, rendering parody impossible. To parody foolish excess, we exaggerate a two-patty burger into a four-patty burger: oops, they’ve already hyped four-patty burgers.
To parody the fossilization of American politics, we create a parody in which 77-year olds are the vibrant young-uns in the halls of power. Dang, the halls of power are already choked with more elderly than the USSR’s creaky leadership just before it collapsed in a heap.
To parody the homogenization and infantilization of Hollywood, we create a parody in which the dominant “tentpoles” generating steady profits are endlessly proliferating comic book superheroes. Darn, that’s already the case.
To parody the media’s desperate competition for “engagement,” we create a parody in which everything becomes a global existential crisis. Heh, there’s no way to parody anything that’s already been driven to excess via the mastery of self-parody.
Plenty of laughs in the GAE west CCCP.
Twenty years to replace the Taliban with the same, how about the Cold War kayfabe Kabuki where we are fundamentally transformed into a third world egalitarian workers utopia where everything is racist and everyone is oppressed while enjoying free goods on their EBT cards.
I did laugh at the purple haired soccer hype missing the kick on purpose.
Laugh at the naval flotillas of a now comrades in arms RF/CCP…until the shooting starts.
The show must go on and Devolution is real.