It's this piece, titled The Banality of the Banality of Evil. Because on first glance, you're like. Yeah, okay, it's obvious what it's saying. Even nazis, even evil people can appreciate beauty, too. But then you learn its name, and suddenly the interpretation shifts a bit. The idea that evil is banal has in itself become banal. my first response to seeing a nazi on a bench is "oh it's about the banality of evil" and not "jesus christ there's a nazi on the bench."

what I find really interesting is how the way this is drawn (especially considering who drew it) the art style seems extremely deliberate. This type of nostalgic landscape painting is very reminiscent of nazi art and specifically, Hitler's art.

Nazis were extremely judgmental of "entartete Kunst" (degenerate art). Bansky's usual work very well fall into this category! So for him to go for this style of painting in particular is another choice I find very interesting, because I can see some people react to this painting with some variation of "oh, I didn't know he could actually draw! I thought he is a hack but he is a real artist!" - and that is where they would agree with the Nazis.

Personally I feel like this show isn’t one where everything needs to be perfectly spelled out for the audience.

I think Goose’s intentions were pretty clear and she doesn’t have to outright confirm anything especially when it’s something THIS supposedly personal.

You can have your own opinions and they are valid, but depiction ≠ endorsement.

Like yeah Jax kind of sucks and has been horrible and even an abuser at times to characters like Gangle, and I call him an ashole and a horrible person all the time. But like, that’s kind of the point, he became that way over time, he became LIKE his mother but to other people without even realising it as a defensive mechanism, the irl Jax didn’t do any of that, Circus Jax IS a cautionary tale of what COULD have happened to him. He essentially made the wrong decision at every turn because of his fear and trauma and it turned out the way it did.

I’m oversimplifying a bit but yeah I’m done talking about this.

Also putting this here that I commented because idk I think it’s worth adding

The way people are speaking about Jax and saying she deserved to abstract, that she ruined everything for everyone and that she was "a grown ass man treating people like that" really speaks volumes to how they would treat someone in their life with a mental illness who makes them unlikeable.

What Jax did was not okay, don't get me wrong, but it seems like a pretty normal self-defence mechanism, however awful it is. Pushing Ribbit away was both self-defense and self-harm, she isolated herself from the only person who truly knew her because she wasn't ready to be known. Ribbit did what she could to bridge that gap, and it failed because Jax wasn't ready, I'm not saying she could've/should've done anything different in that regard, but I don't think it's fair to villainize Jax for reacting like she did.

I mean, home girl literally thought she had killed her mother after coming out, I think her fear was pretty valid, even if unreasonable. Jax is a deeply troubled character who needed a support, both inside and outside the circus, that she didn't get Not forget she was also homeless, which I can't imagine did any good to her mental health.

Mentally ill people should be held accountable for their actions, yes. Your mental illness is not an excuse. But they don't deserve to DIE because their mental illness makes them do (or not do) things they regret. They deserve the opportunity to make up for their mistakes. Jax didn't take that chance and chose to repent by leaving the people she hurt to heal without her, and that makes sense narratively, but it irks me to see the way people jump to hate on her character and say she was an awful person (we don't really see her BEFORE this, and she seemed pretty normal with kaufmo and Ribbit) and she deserved to die.

Listen I’m not saying the last act or Jax’s writing was perfect but what do you mean “Jax’s backstory doesn’t give enough reason for why he treats the women characters so badly”

mom's minion memes for real justice

It also goes without saying that bioessentialism inherently can’t be trans inclusive no matter how hard you try. “All men including trans men—” probably not. “This is only a woman’s issue—” is it really? “Afabs only—” why? “All trans men are like—” what? what are they like? finish the sentence i dare you.

you have to be kinder to people who are slow processors.

you have to be kinder to people who don't understand your jokes.

you have to be kinder to people who forget important dates.

you have to be kinder to people with cognitive decline.

you have to be kinder to people who were always this way, too.

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