The Role Reversal of Absurdity
From the Satires to the Streets
One thing I have noticed is that Surrealism within popular culture has all but vanished and has been replaced by Surrealism within everyday life. You go back to the 1960s and the likes of Monty Python and all the wacky shows on TV during the 80s, and through the 90s; with the likes of Max Headroom, Eurotrash were the freakshows that were exclusively entertainment on TV. But now the freak show is on the streets. There has been a psychological Transference—to use a Jungian psychoanalytical term—whereby the broadcast now emanates from within common or garden NPCs as if they are now the conduits for this desire for the surreal within the human condition.
This is also completely instinctive, as none of these people are performing or creating. They are merely conduits/transcripts for some other driver from the subconscious realms. Take something like Queers for Palestine. In the past, this would have been a comedy sketch, a satire on the stupidity of such an idea. Yet, here we are living with it around us.
Let it be understood that this is of profound significance, and these people are not being changed for no reason. This is akin to a parabolic forshadowing coming down the line for humanity, which could be anything from contact with non-human intelligence, total transhumanism, to nuclear or cosmic disasters. I am paying very close attention.
I used to love watching Eurotrash, I always remember the guy who used to walk around in his rubber gimp suit. As for Monty Python, it will never date, just genius. I'm sure a lot of these trans must have gone through some kind of abuse or trauma in their lives and think they have now found their 'tribe'. They are being used and abused by the system but they just don't know it yet. Thanks Thomas x
Serendipity. I remember that Benny Hill sketch. As a hormone ravaged teenager, the stocking clad lasses were the only reason I tuned in. Let's face it when you look at the picture of those cult members we are witnessing empty vessels.