[FRIAM] satire collapse

[Steve Smith]

glen writes:
> ...  Bad Faith enters, yet again. When someone like Tucker Carlson, 
> Alex Jones, or Stephen Colbert adopts a persona for long enough, they 
> run the risk of inhabiting it. Colbert is competent. So his risk was 
> minimal. But Jones seems to have gotten totally lost. I'm not sure 
> about Carlson.
>
In 2016 I was promoting a Stephen Colbert/Tina Fey ticket on the belief 
that half the Republicans would mistake them for their most notable 
characters while most Democrats would recognize the best aspects of 
satire that those characters inhabited.

Jones and Tucker are (from my POV which may be flawed itself) have long 
been "caricatures of themselves"...

My parents were acutely good at not allowing me to project much with 
them manipulatively... they seemed to *almost always* actually respond 
to what I was thinking/feeling rather than any actions or affects I 
might have tried to generate to get a specific response from them.   I 
very much appreciate that style of levelness, for all the ways it 
interfered with my childhood deviousness.