What i liked about Sorry To Bother You was not so much the lack of subtlety as that it didn't only show problems, but suggested actual praxis as a solution. If you only show the problem and portray it as something inevitable that just can't be helped, you normalize what you're criticizing. You get people used to it, you create media that, in Mark Fischer's words, "performs its anti-capitalism for you". STBY didn't do that. STBY showed workers that organizing and practicing solidarity across marginalized groups is the way to go, while becoming a class traitor is something you'll end up regretting. That's an extremely rare thing in contemporary media, because superficial, ultimately performative and recuperatable criticism is much easier to neuter and sanitize.
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What i liked about Sorry To Bother You was not so much the lack of subtlety as that it didn't only show problems, but suggested actual praxis as a solution. If you only show the problem and portray it as something inevitable that just can't be helped, you normalize what you're criticizing. You get people used to it, you create media that, in Mark Fischer's words, "performs its anti-capitalism for you". STBY didn't do that. STBY showed workers that organizing and practicing solidarity across marginalized groups is the way to go, while becoming a class traitor is something you'll end up regretting. That's an extremely rare thing in contemporary media, because superficial, ultimately performative and recuperatable criticism is much easier to neuter and sanitize.
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