Amigo da Casa
Jul 27, 2017 · 2 min read

What an amazingly interesting and prescient article. I do mean this.

People are desperate for real news, a real idea of what is going. My theory is that this is why political satire and stand-up comedians have become so important in the discourse. People don’t just want to be entertained, they want to know *what’s going on*, and they want to feel themselves part of *the crowd* that knows what’s going on.

So the host says, “Oh yeah?” And the light in the studio says “LAUGH”. And the audience laughs, what a funny response. And it’s real, live, studio laughter, not a canned laugh track. And you can feel it streaming in at home, the warmth of being one of the beautiful people, who know exactly at whom to laugh and exactly when. Be part of Hillary’s “planned spontaneity”.

You know it’s all secretly scripted, this is especially why you love it, you can read between the lines and know that you’re getting the inside skinny because you’re clever. As a South African, I watch Trevor Noah with great amusement — he’s not bad, but the only Zulu he seems to know is Xhosa, and I suspect I did more walking around Soweto as a honkie than he did, as a Coloured (I was at the Soweto Teachers’ Training College, I used to walk to all the surrounding schools to watch student teachers, I actually am the only white person I know who regularly walked around Soweto in the 1980s).

So Trevor is definitely on the inside track and loving it. And sneering at Donald Trump, who had the honesty to run for President as a reality TV star, and give the USA exactly what it deserves. As I said right through the election (I was a Bernie fan until he was “leveraged” out and backed Hillary) — if you are going to turn your political system into a reality TV show, then please, do get a professional reality TV host to run it.

The fake news, the fake smiles, the fake laughter, the crocodile tears, the narrative drummed into your head across all channels until you wonder, would it not be simpler just to publish the script and forget about all the play-acting?

What has emerged is the citizen journalist, content for content’s sake. My motto as a freelance, independent, citizen journalist is “Karma Has No Deadline”. This is now personal: stay wired. Do not be content with no content.

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