Message from @Scribblehatch
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and if that's the case, potentially someone can do better than the tyrant
the satanic panic had rob halfard needing to testify in court over moralist lunatics playing a song backwards and "hearing" something in it.
You had kids whipped up in the frenzy getting people locked up for years over pure lies in the middle of it
art, art is the voice of humanity, and it requires free expression to function well, which is dangerous for a tyrant
art immitates life
you don't want others knowing
its mass hysteria
you have to keep it hidden
and mass hysteria is fertile ground for authoritarianism
and third
comedy
comedy speaks truth to power
comedy speaks truth period
it's not something one wants if you're totalitarian
dictators detest the sound of laughter
It's why the left can't meme.
Because comedy is funny when it's true.
what you do as a tyrant is you take those elements
point is im not justifying my theory on fiction, im justifying the relevance of the fiction based on real events
and turn them to propaganda
this only works
When you know that there isn't a wage gap, any joke about it falls flat.
if you're the sole one making jokes and making art
And plenty of people made those jokes.
if there's someone else doing them without being part of your rule
Bill Burr. Stephen Merchant, more that I can't remember offhand.
they will objectively be better
But so many comedians believed in, and repeated the wage gap myth.
And the jokes tended to suck.
yes
Because there was something missing, even though they believed it.
the left can meme trust me
Logic was missing.
im not following anymore
or at least it could
it used to
too many different talking points going on at the same time lol
the right can barely meme either
IIRC, those are explicitly Frankfurt School tactics