TikTok Discourse: Satire and Politics
"You don't understand American Psycho!!!11! Or the Joker!!" It's so funny to me that a certain flavor of frustration is always present when these two political extremes interact with each other. The claim is as follows -- Patrick Bateman is a caricature of the American Dream and hustle culture, and American Psycho is meant to be a criticism of capitalism and what vices flow from it: greed, consumption, and violence. Sure. Simple. I can agree that the film is well constructed to communicate this message, but what should I do when I disagree with the core themes? The first option is reactive discourse. To use logos to disagree with the film's fundamental tenets. To argue your side. Limited effectiveness, but probably most in line with academia and analytical philosophy. The second option is through reactive creativity -- media that praise the opposite of it. So, fighting culture war media with culture war media. Either critiques of other economic systems or suppo...