Who Is The Fun Party?

In the last thirty years, we've seen a repulsive trend in political and social thought. Large business interests, a news media now pandering entirely to dollar driven sensationalism and a two party system balanced dangerously between a cumbersome and corrupt bureaucracy and out and out lunacy have all joined forces to create the most efficiently docile public possible. Meaningless catch phrases and blatant appeals to emotion market homogenized social messages until the only representatives the majority could conceive of voting for are white haired, middle-aged Caucasian men wielding contrary solutions to non-existent problems.

Our society has become demonstrably insane. The only way its continued survival can even be explained at this point is the inertia of bureaucracy, the natural greed of humanity which requires at least bread and circuses for complacency, and the efforts of a devoted handful behind the scenes.

The Fun Party is a natural, even inevitable response to this, representing that segment of society still fundamentally interested in the more traditionally embraced ethics of avoiding force or intimidation, desperate believers that truth and pragmatism can only be used productively if embraced willingly, but also a segment audacious enough that it can't keep its tongue still in the face of obvious idiocies.

As fun party founder Dallas Shelby likes to point out, we're satire, but I caution those who encounter it from dismissing it as 'a joke.' To quote the Reverend Ivan Stang, "something can be funny and true at the same time," and in an insane environment, the sanest people might naturally seem mad. We want to tell the truth, but that doesn't mean we can't explain it in an entertaining way. This doesn't make the truth less true, but it may make it more constructive, more beneficial, in the long run, to all of us.

The truth will set you free, they say, but perhaps the nature of the truth determines the nature of the freedom. If our truth must be fed to us slowly through the violent disintegration of our rights, our ethics, our liberties, our lives, then might not our freedom manifest itself in equally dire forms? Gunpowder and plots, rifles and bombs would pave the unfortunate and heavy road to freedom born of that truth.
Instead, let's embrace a truth carried on the backs of jokes and quips, insults, plays on words and a strange but clear path to the hidden heart of many political messages. Let's expose the truth through laughter and pointed fingers, innocent but honest inspections of our world in all its absurdity. If we let go of all of the false assumptions and destructive conventions society has 'forced' upon us, and allow our eyes and hearts to open to the hidden nature of our reality without becoming blind to the lighter side, then we may suddenly find ourselves transcending naturally into a brighter world, a series of pure yet slightly mischevious individual utopias quietly coalescing, spreading out, infecting all of society, lifting it up into a more worthwhile realm.