The TDS content is hot swappable with other genres. But they're all actually a kind of bent and twisted quasi-shaman ritual, in the way Rogan Taylor described it in the '70s or '80s in his book The Death And Resurrection Show: From Shaman to Superstar:
They like seeing themselves cry in the screens in their hands. The stars of their very own movies.
Precisely, absolutely, spot on.
The TDS content is hot swappable with other genres. But they're all actually a kind of bent and twisted quasi-shaman ritual, in the way Rogan Taylor described it in the '70s or '80s in his book The Death And Resurrection Show: From Shaman to Superstar:
https://archive.org/details/taylor-the-death-and-resurrection-show/page/n1/mode/2up
Problem is, this kind of internal/self referential thing never leads to transformation or resurrection. They just get more and more miserable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY1H1rZL53I
(Flab fireworks around 1:20)