• UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    17
    ·
    3 months ago

    “People care too much about things” has long been the message of South Park, Rick and Morty, and other favorite sources of ideals and aspirations for 15 year old edgy children and 50 year old edgy manchildren.

    • BashfulBob [none/use name]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      11
      ·
      3 months ago

      “People care too much about things” has long been the message of South Park

      South Park routinely trips over itself as it sprints between “only an insufferable liberal would care about things” and “why are people so unfathomably cruel to each other?” Empathy isn’t unknown to the writers. It just slips in and out of their memory whenever a punchline necessitates it.

      ideals and aspirations for 15 year old edgy children and 50 year old edgy manchildren

      The dirty truth of the human condition is how easy it can be for people to stop maturing (or outright regress) far earlier than we would like to acknowledge. And it certainly doesn’t help when Americans are the most propagandized people on earth.