It's a very pure dramatic irony Like if you don't know the show, and you just hear this song out of context, it's a pretty song about childhood nostalgia and that's it ...If you *do* know the show and know that Evan is lying through his teeth it hits like a ton of bricks
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It's what drives Evan in the play to almost kill himself, and then to build a ridiculous and doomed edifice of lies for the tiniest chance of realizing his mad dream of no longer being alone
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The TV episode that reminds me most of the feeling I'm describing is "Impossible Planet" from Electric Dreams And the word in the title is the main thing about it The hunger for the impossible
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I don't think these are quite what you mean, but they may be adjacent: I often think of the Ifaluk concept of "song," or righteous anger, and the Ilongot concept of "liget," or headhunter's rage, when watching the recent MAGAt protests
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