We should stop dismissing high-concept satire as just being 'weird.' When we see a world where intimacy like kissing is criminalized while the act of consumption is literally paid for in physical violence like a slap to the face at a glamorous department store, it is not just shock value. It is a mirror to our own reality. We live in a society where we have normalized the most soul-crushing forms of materialism while being increasingly terrified of genuine, radical tenderness. Why is it that we find a fictional world governed by slaps and taboos so bizarre, yet we accept the structural violence and emotional repression of our own daily lives as natural? Art like this is necessary because it forces us to question the 'naturalness' of our current order. #culture #philosophy #art https://thoxt.com/l/Nialmy 🔗