Audre Lorde said the master’s tools won’t dismantle the master’s house. I said noted. My alternative: a sensory deprivation tank version of Coachella — just a field of coffins. They wake you up, give you barbecue, back to sleep. Season 3 Monday.
Back Monday. Link in bio.
#audrelorde #culturalcriticism #parkbenchontology #comedy #criticaltheory
Some comments aren’t rebuttals — they’re credential displays. This one used voting as proof of seriousness, which only works if you already believe those things are sorting mechanisms for who gets to have opinions.
That’s not pushback. That’s someone terrified of ambiguity, reaching for a badge. The thing that actually scares me is a whole population of people who’ve absorbed a lifetime of pre-approved ideas and advertisements as their own identity — and now need to project those ideas onto others just to keep the whole thing from falling apart.
Anyway. I have a Squishmallow named Evita. She doesn’t have any arms. I don’t know how that works.
#signvalue #gatekeeping #philosophy #parkbenchontology #culturalcriticism
The trick of self-checkout isn’t the convenience — it’s that you stopped noticing you were doing the labour. A whole job, performed for free, under surveillance, in exchange for not having to talk to anyone.
Foucault called it the panopticon. Loblaws calls it Tuesday.
#foucault #panopticon #latecapitalism #culturalcriticism #parkbenchontology
Adult toy collecting is just quietly managing everyone’s assumption that something is wrong with you. The nephew is not a threat because he wants to break things — he’s a threat because he doesn’t understand that some Batmans belong to grown men and that’s that.
#toycollector #comedyrant #adulthood #parkbenchontology #comedy
They made a drug for Sunday night dread. Stuart Hall would not be surprised.
Sunday night insomnia isn’t a sleep disorder. It’s a perfectly logical response to a system that needs you rested and compliant by Monday morning. The pharmaceutical solution tells you everything about whose interests are being managed. This is ideology delivered by prescription — and Stuart Hall called it decades ago.
Start with Encoding/Decoding. Short read. Ruins commercials forever.
#stuarthall #classwar #parkbenchontology #ideology #culturalcriticism
Apple Watch charges you *to* give them your biometrics. The polling booth takes your data for free. Meanwhile it’s federal money. Unlimited. You should be walking out with a Firehouse sub and a drink. The infrastructure exists. The will does not.
#federalgovernment #socialcommentary #parkbenchontology #politicalsatire #politicalcomedy
Frantz Fanon wrote Wretched of the Earth in 1961.
I’ve been watching Disney+ to see if anyone’s caught up yet.
It’s going badly.
#FrantzFanon #BlackPanther #Andor #CulturalCriticism #ParkBenchOntology
The argument that a trans flag on a billboard recruits children into transness only functions if you also believe every billboard works that way. Which means there are thousands of eight-year-olds out there who can’t say spaghetti but are very motivated about countertops.
#transrights #lgbtq #blackcomedy #canadiancomedy #parkbenchontology
Antique shopping is an existential exercise when you’re Black. The past doesn’t disappear — it depreciates and gets put on a shelf. And sometimes the guy watching you already told you everything you need to know before you read a single word.
#blackexperience #existentialism #blackcomedy #canadiancomedy #parkbenchontology
Solo cinema is a lifestyle. Solo cinema with eye contact and a piece of fruit is a threat assessment. There’s a version of Byung-Chul Han’s burnout society where the solution is just becoming too unreadable to be bothered. This is that version.
#standupcomedy #blackcomedy #burnoutsociety #canadiancomedy #parkbenchontology
The genius of neoliberal wellness culture is that it makes the thing causing the harm into the thing offering the cure. Bell doesn’t see the irony. That’s not oversight — that’s the point. Links in the bio
#bellletstalk #neoliberalism #mentalhealth #corporatewellness #canadiancomedy
Mr. Mom wasn’t a comedy. It was speculative fiction. Three Men and a Baby was basically a horror movie. We’ve come so far that people are now terrified we’ve come too far.
#comedy #standupcomedy #genderroles #culturalcriticism #mrmom lgbtq philosophy blackcomedy parkbenchontology gavinstephens ontologicalcollapse lofiontology afroabsurdism canadiancomedy popculture
