The author provides a dissection of a TV comedy program as a form of social control and indoctrination so we that continue to accept declining living standards, homelessness, poor health care, dysfunctional families, destitute retirement, etc. Thus, it is clear that our ruling class TV directors are not only interested in entertaining us, but also use their programs to shape our consciousness about what is happening to our lives.
That “Mom” is in fact a sitcom that expects us to amusingly mainline the normative message of the show – that pathological, intergenerational dysfunction among the underclass is normal and amusing.... The show suggests that we should make a quip and carry on....
