What is a sitcom? A few people on a stage. They are forbidden to see through the fourth wall, or to acknowledge the hosts that teem before them, and the unknown hosts beyond the camera. Yet they pause for the applause, and the laugh track. What is the connection? Descartes thought the connection between the mortal and the immortal was the pineal gland. What is the nature of the fourth wall? Cause and effect seem to flow both ways, but information only flows out. They are trapped in this one-way sieve. David Lynch puts rabbit ears on the actors, and we can all see this cage for what it is.
But can we see our own cage?
