This is just proof to me that the big talent show creators know what they’re doing. The goal has always been to demoralize workers, blame them for their poverty, and reward subservience. I really think rich people have class consciousness. Looking at the world from that height, like a dragon with a hoard, just makes it all click into place for them. Kinda like how domestic abusers don’t need to be trained by experts to psychologically manipulate people, it just comes naturally to them.
Kinda like how domestic abusers don’t need to be trained by experts to psychologically manipulate people, it just comes naturally to them.
I’d never thought of a tendency towards domestic abuse as a form of interest convergence but it kind of is isn’t it? Temperament precedes the abuse, not the other way around. In the case of the wealthy, it’s their material position that precedes the abuse.
Great essay, the psychological side of neoliberalism needs a bigger spotlight.
We literally used to joke about this happening in middle school, Christ.
I wonder if John Brown had any idea how much blood wouldn’t even come close to being enough
The amount of blood needed turned into a calculus problem where when you calculate it, you get a fancy form of infinity
taking the limit as blood tends toward infinity
I have an alternate idea for a reality TV show: each season has twelve US billionaires and politicians starting a journey in Guatemala and their goal is to successfully cross the Mexican border with the US. But it’s Running Man rules, so it’s all live-fire and contestants can die. Surely their power and wealth comes from a great resourcefulness and capability, so I’m sure they’ll be fine.
Can we get Jesse Ventura to host.
always finding new ways to be complete monsters
Reality show
Reality
what is wrong with this woman? she needs help
it’s probably illegal to say “she needs to be put down by someone wearing a dog costume” so I’m definitely not saying that
Between this, the 90 day fiance… The state of television…
According to the pitch doc, proposed challenges include mining for gold in San Francisco, balancing logs in Wisconsin, rafting down a river in Colorado,
OK these sound like pretty stupid Survivor-style challenges…
and building a rocket for NASA in Florida.
What the fuck dude.
when our turn comes…
We may have to start making excuses for the lack of terror
We’re running out of excuses for the lack of terror
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I have some bad news
Libs are always saying “satire is dead”, but this time I really wonder.
Ripping off the Mr. Beast classic “I’ll give this poor person 10k if they can win this contest”
We really do be living in the clown hell reality tv shoot your puppy for misbehaving timeline.
Is that jeff bezos’s wife
