Should comedians have boundaries?

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the-pi-guy said:

Chrkeller said:

Maybe I'm just smarter than most.  I wouldn't go to a comedy show with a notebook so jot down life lessons.  

I didn't realize people couldn't disconnect reality from make believe.  

By default it makes no sense for someone to take a comedian seriously....  

DarthMetalliCube said:

You're conflating art and entertainment with real life. At the end of the day, this is still nothing more than the modern version of a moral panic (which almost always turn out to be false and misguided hysteria, whether the satanic panic of the 80s, PMRC of the 90s, the Jack Thompson video game violence scare of the 2000s, or the current hyper sensitivity against comedy). It makes the argument that art/entertainment = dangerous in some real life, tangible form. I strongly disagree with that, and I always will. 

How do you people think propaganda works? 

By this logic, there shouldn't be a such thing as propaganda whatsoever. Yet history, psychology, etc clearly show otherwise.  

Propaganda works with power and influence. You are daily under the influence of propaganda, take alone the media coverage of the Israel-Palestinian war. You hear the narrative pushed by powerful people (politician) and influental people (people owning big media with long reach) about the war. That happens in many regards, like capitalism is without alternative and so on.

But a standup comedians influence is dependant on their popularity. So ignoring stand up comedians is the best way to rob them of their influence and not giving them the power of propaganda.