Why Does TSP Have So Much Subtle Anticapitalism In It. Like. Stanley's Office Job Is Literally Mind Control.

Why does TSP have so much subtle anticapitalism in it. Like. Stanley's office job is literally mind control. All the scrawls in the meeting room are about getting more money. Stanley's job is the epitome of David Graeber's theory of Bullshit Jobs. 432 too had a Bullshit Job, and because he literally couldn't do it and everyone fucking hated him, he lost his mind (and fused to the fabric of the universe about it). The Parable is an infinite loop where the Narrator wants you to go back into the loop to do the exact same thing again. When Stanley gets to the Mind Control Facility, the Narrator says Stanley wonders the only reason he ever liked his boring job was because of the mind control. Literally the office is only functional and people are only employed there because of fucking mind control. TSPUD pretty much looks directly into the camera and says "Making more sequels for the sake of sequels, for the sake of the franchise, for the sake of money, instead of because you had genuine reasons for the art to continue, for the art to say more, is a bad thing actually" and pretty much completely dissected why so many sequels and remakes suck- because they're not made for art, they're made for money (or in the narrator's case bc he's a fuckin people pleaser dnjkfksjdnfkjds). Pair this with Kevan Brighting's one tweet abt Stanley telling a cop to fuck off and die and holy shit man TSP is based as fuck