Along with Burr I think Carr, CK and Buress are smart and insightful and I miss their content, but they 100% knew who the show was for and that it’s an attempt to normalize an oppressive authoritarian regime. Performing for a repressed audience and planting seeds of new new ideas or bringing people together or whatever are all nice ideas but it feels like copium to justify the million dollar dirty paycheck. Maybe I’ll get over it eventually? I tend to hold grudges for a long time.
Side note: I do think it’s hillarious that Jim Jeffries kinda took a similar tack and said in an interview something like “they killed a journalist, so what? We kill journalists too. We killed Epstine” and they dropped him from the festival 😂
I dig where you’re coming from. The “subverting the commerce” feels a little like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits but I still adore Rage Against the Machine, so 🤷🏾
Along with Burr I think Carr, CK and Buress are smart and insightful and I miss their content, but they 100% knew who the show was for and that it’s an attempt to normalize an oppressive authoritarian regime. Performing for a repressed audience and planting seeds of new new ideas or bringing people together or whatever are all nice ideas but it feels like copium to justify the million dollar dirty paycheck. Maybe I’ll get over it eventually? I tend to hold grudges for a long time.
Side note: I do think it’s hillarious that Jim Jeffries kinda took a similar tack and said in an interview something like “they killed a journalist, so what? We kill journalists too. We killed Epstine” and they dropped him from the festival 😂