Edit: Im not being serious. please dont feel bad for liking transformers or scifi or whatever. Thanks

  • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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    4 months ago

    Parenti made this exact point in one of his speeches and I think Inventing Reality. Pop culture isn't popular culture in the sense of popular being of the populi or of the people. It is pushed top-down by the bourgeoisie to cultivate capital realism and learned helplessness and hopelessness among the masses, to rob them of their sense of solidarity with each other and their spark of rebelliousness directed towards a better world., turning them into completely atomized individuals whose only purpose in life is to consoom.

    • the_post_of_tom_joad [any, any]
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      4 months ago

      Damn i should read some of him instead of smoking my gears coming up with common knowledge. I see some to watch on a goog search, can you recommend one?

      • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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        3 months ago

        For books anyway, the two books people recommend are Blackshirts and Reds and Inventing Reality. For lectures, there's Yellow Parenti (just search for yellow parenti on Youtube).

        I also like his series of lectures called Real History. There's a playlist here (ignore the random Fortnite video at the end): https://invidious.protokolla.fi/playlist?list=PLZdjCqT95Peq3KzB0hU2b_BOi5BF2nmkj

        It's split into 5 parts:
        Part 1: The Myth of the Founding Fathers
        Part 2: The Spanish American War and the Rise of US Imperialism
        Part 3: The Functions of Fascism
        Part 4: The Real Causes of World War II
        Part 5: Psycho-history