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Bo Burnham’s Inside and the Foucauldian Ethics of the Self | Blog of the APA

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Public Philosophy Image by jraffin from Pixabay “They say it’s like the ‘me’ generation. It’s not. The arrogance is taught, or it was cultivated. It’s self-conscious. That’s what it is. It’s conscious of self. Social media—it’s just the market’s answer to a generation that demanded to perform, so the market said, here, perform. Perform everything to each other, all the time for no reason. It’s prison. It’s horrific.” —Bo Burnham, “Make Happy Speech” Five years after his Make Happy (2016) stand-up routine, Bo Burnham issued the above statement along with another comedy special: Insid e (2021) .

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