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Who is pimping out your consciousness? What have you done to keep other people in line? What would it look like to get free? Big questions and a serious calling from an epic comedy set.Įdited to add: I just had a new thought. Truth and reconciliation starts with ourselves. Further, this pimping out of our consciousness trains us to be cold as ice to other people. I think he is suggesting we are raping our own consciousness and humanity to any number of voices that would love to structure our reality / be our pimp (particularly in our screen-saturated age). How are our minds being flayed? How are we being soothed? The pills and bath aren't a revelation of comfort without the relief from the pain, so if we are being soothed by entertainment, is there an implicit flaying? He talks about the rape epidemic, and alludes that things are much worse than just the rape of individuals. If Dave (and the Entertainment Industry at large) is the Pimp, that means we, the audience are being flayed by a coathanger, then given pills and drawn a hot bath. But he acknowledges that he is also a pimp, and the audience is bottom bitch per his last line at the end of the story, 'and now we got a secret, bitch.' (.so keep subscribed to Netflix for another 6 months(?)) But he left before he got more 'ho mileage' put on him. Vis-a-vis Dave's leaving comedy, he was being tricked into being a Bottom Bitch for Comedy Central. Yes they are pimps, but what made them so cold? What caged them up and made them unclean and hateful? Yes they are abusive, malveolent pimps, but are they really just 'bottom bitches' of the system, keeping everyone else in line? Capitalism is like pimp-ception. He talks about South Africa's post-apartheid truth and reconciliation process, about system being guilty (babylon), rather then the individuals.īy that logic, Iceberg Slim, in his role of a pimp, is a victim of the system.

The title of the special, 'The Bird Revelation' seems to reference this bible quote: 'And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.' -Revelation 18:2 Most posts seem to discuss how the Iceberg Slim story relates to Dave's leaving comedy (Dave = BB Comedy Central=Pimp), but it's got some rich commentary about the audience's role as Dave's/Entertainment's Bottom Bitch.

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