We watched the Ricky Gervais special for our New Year's entertainment. Of course, N is s bit like that guy in Montana who came down to a gas station from his isolated cabin in the mountains in the middle of COVID and was spooked by weird masked humans jumping away from each other in terror.
"There are two sexes!" Gervais says. The audience is in stitches.
"I looked into a boat with refugees, and they are all young men!" Again, the audience is collapsing with laughter.
"I don't understand, what's funny?" N asks.
I had to pause the video and explain the whole thing with not being allowed to notice the painfully obvious. People are experiencing relief that somebody is saying something considered transgressive. It's the same reason why Gervais uses swear language on stage. He's our sacrificial goat. We experience catharsis when we see somebody perform a forbidden act. It's another question why observing existing reality has become a forbidden act. The best parts of the show are when Gervais says these completely mundane, self-evident things. Because we need him to say those things for us.
And that's not at all funny.
In the New Year, I hope we all get over it and start saying what we know to be true.
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