• Fishroot [none/use name]
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    13 hours ago

    Greta is authentic to her beliefs, but I always felt like her acceptance into the mainstream as an ecological activist is like when your company hires a stand up comedian at the work party and the sketches are basically laughing at the CEO being a tyrant and a monster.

    • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
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      8 hours ago

      Reminds me of this quote:

      We should also wonder how our appreciation of the sophistication and totality of the propaganda apparatus and its ongoing repression squares with the peculiar kind of “critical” media that does make it to wide circulation, usually to universal praise from both the mainstream and the counter-cultural “left.” [...] Disaster movies insist that the end of the world is inevitable, that we are all complicit in ecological devastation for not doing our part recycling cans — this is environmental critique. Triumphant, handsome, charismatic, “alpha” men climb to the top of their respective empires of crime in highest-budget four-season shows and are awarded the highest accolades in their profession — this passes for an indictment of capitalism. Eileen Jones insightfully observes, about David Fincher’s Gone Girl:

      Even as I watched it and shuddered with revulsion, I had to admit it — Fincher’s got our number. He’s figured out how to regularly wow contemporary audiences, to present us with the appalling truth of how despicable we are in a way that never really strikes home, by alternating coldly disapproving, feel-bad effects with conspiratorial smirking ones that remove any real sting. He so often uses the trappings of film noir to showcase our “badness,” but since we’re all perverts together, it’s just the “badness” of S&M sex-play, so who cares?

    • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.ml
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      9 hours ago

      of course, and she was very young when she started doing it. but her politics seem to be developing in the right direction and its funny that they're trying to silence her now.