• CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    The meta of this scene is that the network only allows it because it’s pure spectacle, and everyone goes back to their normal ignorant apathetic existences afterwards, with nothing changed.

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        1 year ago

        Right? What he’s saying is absolutely incredible and stirring, but it’s also useless, because it’s just words, and everyone takes it as a performance and a “viral moment” and then goes back to the next program on the dial. It’s incredibly prescient.