>>5622895>TrollWhat a great point.
I am reminded of The Nightman Cometh, and how it deals with the expectation of subversion.
The Troll, played courageously by Frank Reynolds, has laid possession on the soul of a child. A soul that a hero wishes to retrieve. However this is where the purpose of the tale is laid bare, while the story itself is simply that of good and evil, a clever twist of words causes the Troll's leverage, the soul of a child, to take on darker implications. The phrase Boy's soul can be mistaken to mean Boy's hole, which would imply the troll is tempting the hero with unconsenual homoeroticism of a child.
This lets us question comedy itself. We wish for the unexpected, but even though comedy inherently demands what is not asked (the unexpected), this also makes us risk getting what we do not want (being a pedophile).
This is why Space Monki civ absolves me of guilt when I look upon it in a erotic manner. It threatens subversion but its pretense is inverted. There is no risk of evil, evil will happen, we only have the freedom to consent. We accept his shackles, we shoot the elephant, we play the role of devil again and again not because we choose it, but because it is demanded of us.
And thus we are given the pretense, the veneer that our actions are not our cause. I may relish in genocide, I may lust over the eugenics of my sisters, knowing that it is not myself who is making this happen, but my dom, my master, daddy Bananas. For that reason I wear the collar, to free my of the choice of subversion, to take away the culpability of my actions, leaving me with only pleasure in my actions.
I am free in my slavery. Thank you mr monkey man, than you america.
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