Maybe your "normie" friends actually did catch, and actually enjoyed, the subversive ideas in White Lotus, season two. Paglia, Freud, and others know that it is quite normal for people to enjoy ritualized subversion of their own order and belief systems. Only the most rigorous ideologues, and there are a lot these days, show no sense of humor about their value commitments. Your normie friends are probably not Iranian morality policemen, professional woke warriors, or MAGA Congressional reps.
Maybe your "normie" friends actually did catch, and actually enjoyed, the subversive ideas in White Lotus, season two. Paglia, Freud, and others know that it is quite normal for people to enjoy ritualized subversion of their own order and belief systems. Only the most rigorous ideologues, and there are a lot these days, show no sense of humor about their value commitments. Your normie friends are probably not Iranian morality policemen, professional woke warriors, or MAGA Congressional reps.