I disagree. It’s easy to get that interpretation if you isolate this skit from the rest of the text, but Bo goes as far as putting himself in crucifixion imagery to lampoon his own position as an authoritative media figure and former chud. Plus there’s the bits about Bezos being a monster working within the rules of a monstrous system (Bo himself even becomes a bit of a monster at the end of the Socko skit). It’s meant to be viewed in whole as one experience, and when you put all the pieces together, it connects the profound loneliness westerners feel with the hopelessness of climate change and the wealth of those succeeding under capitalism. This is supported by interviews he’s done out of character.

I do think it’s navel-gazey and too vague (I’ve seen the FD Signifier vid), but I think it’s still useful. The entry point for most white western libs into leftism is going to be their own social alienation, because that’s presently the major material condition which affects them (online leftists in particular talk about their own alienation quite a bit). What more experienced communists need to be able to do is use this sort of imagery to leverage solutions to social alienation which also further the material goals of less privileged comrades. In reading Mao and Freire, I think this needs to be in the form of actual organized mutual aid (vs temporary or optics-based affinity groups) which seeks to elevate the lumpens and precariat while lifting the veil of the ‘middle class’ from more privileged proletarians.