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This is what passed for satire exactly 20 years ago
(hexbear.net)
A justification for American militarism from the South Park guys in the form of "dicks have to fuck assholes" or whatever.
Racism towards Middle Easterners and Kim Jong-il too, because why not?
The real problem is that some Hollywood actors said the Iraq War was bad.
See, I don't understand something. It is satire but it also is just genuinely what Americans believe. Is that because Americans are too illiterate to process satire, or is it because America is so devoid of morality that participating in a self-deprecational circlejerk of "satire" provides American libs and chuds with the moral license to keep supporting atrocities?
I think the same underlying phenomenon applies to the way a huge majority of Americans distrust their government, but they still functionally put their trust in government in every conceivable ways. A tax strike in the US is unthinkable. Voter turnouts are low, but the majority of elegible voters still vote, despite saying they don't trust their government. Electoral candidates with negative approval win elections. Nobody believes in anything, it's a walking zombie of a country.
Dude, it's therapy. When you have to do something, out of necessity or because it's what's right it can be an intense burden! just doing basic stuff sometimes! But, especially if it's wrong and kinda fucking evil - the human psyche - being fallible and often damaged - needs to process stuff. Team America was group therapy. This kind of genre of thing is about putting the anxieties, pains, morality, of the conscientous part of the American psyche forward - and to absolve itself without changing direction. It is confessional, it is ritual hail maries, it is baptism - and where the repentant might change their behavior, the guilty, the bloody handed, the passive and the cowardly just cleanse themselves in the purifying waters before carrying on with the soiling work of turning the crank on the meat grinder.
What a hypnotist might do 1 on 1; slop does for the collective.
"The weight of what i do is heavy on my shoulders, but in the end we're good people trying to heal and do good, right?" the nation asks itself, all at once, processing itself in the shattered visage of the humanity that belies its callous mask - a finger snaps, the body relaxes, and the mind forgives itself under instruction
Very well put