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

    Throw in Simulacra and Simulation and Capitalist Realism for good measure, which aim to demonstrate how absurdity is the natural outcome of the way capitalist societies structure our symbolic interactions, and how efforts to undermine that structuring only serve to reinforce its end stages.

    On that read, perhaps one of the strongest sources of disassociation in absurdist humor is due to its ultimately defeatist project, acknowledging at once both the absurdity in the matter it aims to represent and the medium of its representation.