The Infomerical to End Infomercials
This clip is so meta…
How does somebody who’s fed up with informercials create a commentary on them? Shoot their own informercial, of course.
I wonder if clips like this would have been totally confusing to audiences even 15 or 20 years ago. We’ve gotten so used to irony in our culture (specifically in comedy), that a group of people making an informercial to make fun of informercials makes complete sense. These days, imitation is not always the highest form of flattery.
Our culture is so flooded with irony I sometimes wonder if we could use a break from it. And yet, the Church often feels like it could use a healthy dose of irony, specifically when looking at itself.
I think when we’re comfortable mocking ourselves a bit, it helps us let go of the things we’re needlessly clinging to.
