Sometimes I wonder if the general populace is, whether by nature, material conditions, or education, too stupid for nuanced satire. Hell, not even actual nuance, but just anything not literally explaining the true intended message somewhere in the story.
I mean look what happened after Fight Club was adapted into a movie like two decades ago. Did people realize how alienated late capitalism is making us? Did they try to form new ways for men to connect with each other that broke the confines of toxic masculinity? Not in any appreciable way. What they did start doing is meeting up to beat the shit out of each other.
Kinda. It is well documented that a large portion of the American people have no functional reading comprehension skills. Like, we can read street signs but no abstract thought.
Fight club is tough. Fight clubs are cool and fun. That is why boxing gyms exist. Constructing elaborate rituals to allow yourself to touch the bodies of other men is a noted popular activity. If Durden has been a red guard instead of black block we would have an entirely different interpretation of the story even though it could probably be functionally identical.
I think it’s a frame of mind. Generally, people are not trained to view media as art, nor to interact with art in any meaningful sense. If you see a video game and subconsciously think “this exists solely for my gratification” then yeah, you’re not gonna be thinking about it much.
Sometimes I wonder if the general populace is, whether by nature, material conditions, or education, too stupid for nuanced satire. Hell, not even actual nuance, but just anything not literally explaining the true intended message somewhere in the story.
I mean look what happened after Fight Club was adapted into a movie like two decades ago. Did people realize how alienated late capitalism is making us? Did they try to form new ways for men to connect with each other that broke the confines of toxic masculinity? Not in any appreciable way. What they did start doing is meeting up to beat the shit out of each other.
Kinda. It is well documented that a large portion of the American people have no functional reading comprehension skills. Like, we can read street signs but no abstract thought.
my friend who plays helldivers 2 told me there is actual story bits like emails and logs and whatnot that explicitly state how corrupt super earth is
I thought fight club was incredibly cool when I was 14 and definitely wanted to be the narrator lol. Look at how many friends he had!
Fight club is tough. Fight clubs are cool and fun. That is why boxing gyms exist. Constructing elaborate rituals to allow yourself to touch the bodies of other men is a noted popular activity. If Durden has been a red guard instead of black block we would have an entirely different interpretation of the story even though it could probably be functionally identical.
I think it’s a frame of mind. Generally, people are not trained to view media as art, nor to interact with art in any meaningful sense. If you see a video game and subconsciously think “this exists solely for my gratification” then yeah, you’re not gonna be thinking about it much.