Sadmin Songtext
von Hannah Gadsby

I′m losing my mind
Like I say that as a joke, also true
But also I don't think I′m alone
I feel like, I think we're all on the skids a little bit
Like I don't feel like anyone′s flourishing
I think we′ve been losing our minds for a long time
I think maybe the Industrial Revolution kicked it off
I don't know, just asking questions
But I think the rot
I reckon the rot really set in when
Our social media feeds
Went from a timeline to algorithmic popcorn
Because back in the day
We mightn′t have known who was saying what
But at least we understood when
And now it's just all over the place
And we′re all perpetually confused
And we know that this change to our social fabric
Wasn't made for fun
Nobody is having fun


We know this change was made to
Capitalize on the anxious attention of billions
For the profit of a very pathetic few
We all across what a data farm is?
You know what a data farm is?
It′s where they farm data
It's like a paddock full of servers going, "Mooo,"
I think. I've never been there
But you know that this is happening?
Do you know who the data pigs are on the data farm?
That′s us
They′re farming our data
To sell ourselves back to ourselves
And now we're stuck
We′re just stuck in this attention economy
Living in the age of harvesting our own discontent
And our world is nothing more than
An ever-expanding murder board of first thoughts
Hot takes and grand delusions
There's no depth to our collective thinking anymore
Because there′s no time to think
There's no time to process
There′s no time to grieve
We've become locusts to our own existence
Oh look, a new meme!
I can't keep up
Like I still haven′t worked out
What does the fox say?
I′m just done
I'm cooked
I′m baked
Like I don't understand when we′re supposed to grieve
Like not just as individuals, but also collectively
Like when are we going to have
A good chat about the pandemic?
Not now, I'm not equipped
But I feel like we need to
So many people died alone
We need to talk about this
There′s so much grief, so much unresolved grief
And some of it is inside our bodies
And we just have to not care about that
And it's like
"Oh, no, no, no, supply chains, supply chains
Let's fix the supply chains."
It does my head in
And the worst thing I think
About when someone you love dies
Apart from the whole dying thing
Is all the paperwork
The bureaucracy of death is almost criminal
I′ve been calling it admin grief
But someone corrected me recently
And said, "I think you mean sadmin."
And I′m like, "Yes, I think you are right
I think I do mean sadmin."
I'll give you an example of sadmin
We wanted to get rails put up on my dad′s nursing home bed
Because he wasn't in control of his roll
He had a brain tumour at that stage
He had a tumah!
Which I shouldn′t say like that
Anyway you get it
Comedy!
Anyway, so we wanted to get nursing rails put up
On Dad's bed
And they said
"Sure. How about you fill in this stack of forms
And we′ll see what we can do?"
And I said
"Well, we could just see what we could do and put them up."
And they're like
"Yep fill in the forms and then we'll work it out."
And I said, "Yeah but they′re right there."
′Boop!'
"Please fill in the forms. Protocol"
Protocol this. Boop!
"No, please just fill in the forms
Can you fill in the forms and then we′ll get on to this?"
And I said, "Yeah, but it's getting dark
We could just, he′s going to be asleep soon
We could just boop in the meantime."
"Please fill in the forms"
So you start filling out the forms
But before they can be processed
Your dad falls out of bed
And that sets off another round of significant paperwork
Which of course never gets processed
Because in the meantime your dad dies
Now, I wasn't there and that grieves me
It′s not realistic to expect that I could have been there
But dad was always there for me
So it does grieve me
I was at home
I was watching the World Cup
My niece had just scored tickets to Taylor Swift
And everybody was wearing pink on the television
I remember these things very clearly
And that trifecta of detail there
Should solve one of the biggest mysteries of this show
Why am I still doing material about Barbie
A good year after peak relevance?
There's a lot of dated material up top
World Cup? So last year
My best guess is I've kept these jokes in the show
Because I wrote them when Dad was still alive
Even the knock-knock joke
Which he loved by the way
He used to make me tell it to people who visited
And honestly, it didn′t work as well with him in the room
So I-