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[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 201 points 23 hours ago (7 children)

No surprise. Fallon is barely even human. Just a hollow machine for propagating the system's needs.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-banal-horror-of-jimmy-fallon

[–] velma@sh.itjust.works 72 points 23 hours ago

Fallon and every single person involved in lining up McGregor as a guest. Absolutely disgusting.

[–] man_wtfhappenedtoyou@lemmy.world 28 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

You can see it in his eyes, he's dead inside.

[–] BurgerBaron@quokk.au 14 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

I agree, and his smile is plastic. He looks pained every time he does it as if he's counting in his head how long to hold the grin for the camera.

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Makes me miss Alex Trebek on Jeopardy. I like Ken Jennings and he's a good host but he sort of has that always smily, happy style like is required today in media. That might just be him being Mormon though. Alex had a great deadpan humor and definitely wasn't always laughing, I don't think you're allowed on TV if you act like a real person anymore.

[–] buttmasterflex@piefed.social 9 points 18 hours ago

That was a solid read

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 15 points 20 hours ago

As someone who has never seen the show outside of snippets posted as memes or whatever, that is a haunting description of something you'd use in a movie or video game to create uncanny horror.

Then the meta-horror hits that this is our world.

[–] arandomthought@sh.itjust.works 21 points 23 hours ago

Thank you, I enjoyed that article.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

every corporate spokesperson, every one of their public facing people. are not people.

just a replaceable part of a machine that is slowly killing us all.

after work, when at home, they are people. but at work they sell their personhood to be an avatar for those corporations.

[–] velma@sh.itjust.works 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Let's not make excuses for these people.

Not making excuses. just stating that they dehumanise themselves willingly.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago

I would love to build a video game based on this concept. Not Fallon or a late night show, but the anti-gothic horror described in that peice, the desperate performative enthusiastic rejection of reality.