Eric Andre, Connor O'Malley, Gmod videos, Tim and Eric Show, etc. all things that tickle my brain. I can't help but think there's a relationship between enjoying crazy ass content and having a clear understanding of the insane capitalist system I live in.

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    4 years ago

    What appeals to me about absurdist humor is that it always, either consciously or not, works to cut through the thin veneer of art as pure consumption, and contains within it both a mocking critique of the capitalist mode of art production, and a confession that it itself belongs to this mode of production, and rightly mocks itself for it.

    I guess there's also that a large part of the genre is the subversion of norms, the undermining of civility and 'rationality', and flirtation with taboo and excrementality. Leftist politics is precisely that: :PIGPOOPBALLS: QED