I was thinking American media specifically, but really any developed capitalist country creates the revolutionary-tinged product the masses crave while neutering it. From punk to hip hop, fight club, the actual matrix movie, and so on. Leftist spaces at least gesture towards theory, even if memes aren't the best delivery system
Our entire media ecosystem thrives on telling people they're in the matrix, and giving them none of the tools necessary for getting out
Do you mean English-speaking media in general, or leftist online spaces in particular?
I was thinking American media specifically, but really any developed capitalist country creates the revolutionary-tinged product the masses crave while neutering it. From punk to hip hop, fight club, the actual matrix movie, and so on. Leftist spaces at least gesture towards theory, even if memes aren't the best delivery system
Liberalism in a nutshell. "We are aware of the problems and we should feel bad about them, but trying to fix them would be worse."