amorphous_constellation
Well-Known Member
The Joker is primarily a commentary on society’s (American specifically) treatment of the mentally ill, the results of ignoring and stigmatising it’s own citizens, simply because the elite don’t care.
I suppose one could make the argument that this angst and frustrated cry out for recognition of basic humanity is reflected in the BLM movement. The shunned and downtrodden citizens trying to institute change in a system that at best ignores their plight and at worst treats them as subhumans.
I can't really comment further on what the 'joker' is, but it's interesting reading an Australian take on this place. America, in some ways, might be the most primordial western country. Where others might have evolved the feathers of collaboration, this country never lost the dinosaur scales of the medieval times, where the individual is able to accumulate, and lord, and adventure, all with the mindset purely to self-gain. Our manner of speaking is often overly proud, and archaically makes one's accumulations into the main conversational centerpiece. I understand the earliest european immigrants, my ancestors included, as possibly coming here to escape the enlightenment. From there you might come to understand how aberrant we are, as we quite possibly represent a much earlier western incarnation, trapped in stasis, from our manner of speaking to our insistence on the value of accumulation.