Joking about it is a way to build shared awareness about it, which is a precursor to taking collective action about it. Kind of like how people were joking-not-joking about Weinstein for decades
Comedy in 1990: "airplane food sucks lol" Comedy in 2018: "the ever accelerating limitless greed of the bourgeoisie will destroy the planet lol"
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Worked for airplane food - when was the last time you had a meal on an airplane?
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Yes, also like... 'This airplane food is delicious, I'm telling ya.... NOT!"
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Guess I picked the wrong week to stop dialectical materialism
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You see, they are both funny because they are both true and absurd at the same time. But my ticket was expensive, should not the food be of quality? Of all things, are the merciless I've never met to be the bane of my existence?
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The difference 18 years of comedy makes is that it actually punches upwards. Just how it’s supposed to!
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Did you ever read Ben Elton's 1989 novel 'Stark "Stark is a secret consortium with more money than God, and the social conscience of a dog on a croquet lawn. What's more, it knows the Earth is dying."
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I have been telling more and more people about this recently. Ben “Nostradamus” Elton
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