>>85341950Usually social commentary tries to give a lesson or moral to why something is wrong. South Park is pretty common, but they do a lot of the time give reasons why something is bad and address that you do need something else although that is the joke that the show was made to mock afterschool specials. Russell is just parroting.
Russell is a west coast kid living in Portland.
He can write a funny joke, but there's really nothing biting when you've heard the same criticisms all your life.
Yeah, corporations sell you crap, but that's gone on since the industrial revolution and what's the answer to it? How and why do you want to stop it? Yeah, people are now selfish and want the latest gizmo in attempt to get that dopamine rush, but what's you answer? Tear it down and start again? Regulate harder? Seize the means of production? Let China take the mantle of Rome?