Handbook of Performative Theater for the Absurd... (Blog 173)

(11/2/2025) A week or so ago, I made a post about the “No Kings” protest — and how, mathematically, the noise didn’t matter. Two percent of the country shouted into the void, convinced they were making history, and I found myself asking why I even cared enough to notice. That’s when I started rereading some of my older thoughts, especially Raw is Politics from August 2024, and realized that while my feelings about all this nonsense haven’t really changed, my understanding of it has.

Handbook of Performative Theater for the Absurd grew out of that introspection. It’s not a policy rant or party-of-choice piece — it’s about how politics, both colors, has stopped being politics and turned into performance art that mirrors the WWE. Everyone’s auditioning for outrage while the rest of us just try to live, work, and survive the purple noise. What started as my irritation at not wanting to leave my house during a protest became a wider look at how we’ve built a culture where logic isn’t celebrated, regular people can’t do basic math, and empathy is practiced by a minority that has none.

This essay isn’t about taking sides. It’s about pointing out the absurdity that both sides are and share. It’s for the regular thinking person who feels politically homeless, intellectually exhausted, or cosmically amused by all of it.

I’m not Left, Right, or Center — I’m in the parking lot wondering why anyone paid to see this shitshow. The absurdity writes itself; I just take notes and try to formulate that into terms “I” can understand.

Handbook of Performative Theater for the Absurd — https://mineofilms.me/handbook-performance
by David-Angelo Mineo
3,591 Words
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