If you Netflix, please watch Hannah Gadsby's "Nannette."
I didn’t know her. She’s a lesbian standup comedian from Tasmania.
But this is far, far from a standup routine. She takes you on a remarkable ride about comedy and self-deprecation, how internalized hate can blind you and make you lose who you are, who you just ARE, without it being correct or moral or any of those imposed values.
You can apply it to all of us. How we internalize the hate projected toward us and don’t realize it.
She also talks about something that I think about every single day as I watch 45 and media (all of it) manipulate us for gain. She talks about the seductive power of tension and release. Creating tension and then connecting it cessation to something that will benefit them.
This is, I believe, the fundamental state of human beings. Hunger/Food. Desire/Sex. Setup/Punchline. Body anxiety/Supposed solution. Illness anxiety/Drug. Verse/Chorus. Plot/Resolution.
It’s what we do. They know how to manipulate us.
Anyway, do watch. She’s just brilliant. Far above any simple comedy routine. You’ll think hard through both laughter and tears.
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"Nanette" is the most profound piece of art/comedy/mindwalk that I've seen in years. 
