https://twitter.com/jeremythunder/status/1448768005488447491?t=lm9kfyRqn0OPk3s6ODbhnA&s=19

https://twitter.com/HugoTheCat3/status/1448859734350696448?t=lm9kfyRqn0OPk3s6ODbhnA&s=19

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    That's a bit harsher than what I'd say. I'd put more blame on whatever's causing this cultural phenomenon, like capitalism or alienation or background noise white supremacy. The people obsessed with true crime are just putting a podcast on or watching a TV show, same as a lot of folks. They don't intuit it as different than any other form of entertainment and why would they? We're all sitting on graves and enjoying the fruits of imperialism. The fans are only damaging their own psyches from listening, but that's the position we're all in. I can't say I'm much better in regard to my humanity than the true crime fans, I laugh when conservative radio hosts die of covid or when cops kill themselves.

    • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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      3 years ago

      When you laugh at cops and conservative hosts, those are active enemies you are laughing at. They are opposed to you, and have hurt you. Watching a serial killer attack someone, or listening to an account of it, for entertainment and not to learn something abut society or what exactly happened, is taking pleasure in the pain and death of another. People should notice this and that it is wrong.

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        I think we might be headbutting a weird grey zone of personal morality and cultural phenomenon that doesn't have an easy answer. People obsess over whatever spectacles exist in the current moment. The entertainment that's given to them is perceived as what's available.

        Someone who has read more Debord or Althusser or someone could probably say what I'm struggling to put into words.

        • emizeko [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          I haven't read those but when you are hyperindividualized and "the protagonist of your own movie" and the hedonic treadmill is robbing you of pleasure, it seems like there's a certain type of person who can only still "get off" by self-inserting themselves as the victim in these stories