Pre-Squidgame at least. Honestly Squidgame and The Boys are almost depressing in their existence because the fact that those shows exist and are produced (not cheaply by all accounts) under capitalist regimes shows how seriously they actually view the danger of any sort of leftist movement. Its like a cruel joke.
Eh, I think some of this is that these corporations aren’t really fun by “capitalists”, they capitalists are off playing golf and getting blowjobs in private jets. The media corps they own are run by armies of clout chasing dorks who I don’t think really consider the implications of the things they green light, they just see something is popular and fund anything similar/related to it. Even if a piece of media actually did contain the potential to radicalize a lot of people, if focus testing says it’ll make a short term profit, the corporate machine will probably make it.
Well I mean leftist movements not being even in the zip code of a legitmate threat to capital in the west is not exactly a hot take. More like an objective read of reality.
The only people that are gonna arrive to the conclusion that The Boys is an anticapitalist piece of media are actual anticapitalists. You have no idea how often shit that seems very on the nose to us completely flies over people's heads.
The Boys and Squidgame existing and being so popular and successful only cements the notion in my mind that all art produced under capitalism, regardless of the text's content and author's intent, exists to reinforce capitalism. Capitalism will co-opt anything produced under it, and as such anti-capitalist art cannot be made until we start building socialism. It's a bleak world out there
edit: also form > text / subtext literally every time. It genuinely kinda disgusts and depresses me just how meaningless everything actually is in our world (talking about media / art ofc). Culture can't inform material conditions, it can only replicate it, so we're stuck in an extremely pathetic cycle where everything we consume is basically what is already very apparent to us. It really just makes change seem less possible, knowing how successful and popular Squidgame is. That's the poisonous irony that I will carry into my grave.
No necessarily, I mean Amazon already produces The Boys, the most angry and depressing bit of anticapitalist tv I've seen.
The Boys is gonna end with Homelander "redeeming" himself, just wait.
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Pre-Squidgame at least. Honestly Squidgame and The Boys are almost depressing in their existence because the fact that those shows exist and are produced (not cheaply by all accounts) under capitalist regimes shows how seriously they actually view the danger of any sort of leftist movement. Its like a cruel joke.
Eh, I think some of this is that these corporations aren’t really fun by “capitalists”, they capitalists are off playing golf and getting blowjobs in private jets. The media corps they own are run by armies of clout chasing dorks who I don’t think really consider the implications of the things they green light, they just see something is popular and fund anything similar/related to it. Even if a piece of media actually did contain the potential to radicalize a lot of people, if focus testing says it’ll make a short term profit, the corporate machine will probably make it.
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Well I mean leftist movements not being even in the zip code of a legitmate threat to capital in the west is not exactly a hot take. More like an objective read of reality.
The only people that are gonna arrive to the conclusion that The Boys is an anticapitalist piece of media are actual anticapitalists. You have no idea how often shit that seems very on the nose to us completely flies over people's heads.
The Boys and Squidgame existing and being so popular and successful only cements the notion in my mind that all art produced under capitalism, regardless of the text's content and author's intent, exists to reinforce capitalism. Capitalism will co-opt anything produced under it, and as such anti-capitalist art cannot be made until we start building socialism. It's a bleak world out there
edit: also form > text / subtext literally every time. It genuinely kinda disgusts and depresses me just how meaningless everything actually is in our world (talking about media / art ofc). Culture can't inform material conditions, it can only replicate it, so we're stuck in an extremely pathetic cycle where everything we consume is basically what is already very apparent to us. It really just makes change seem less possible, knowing how successful and popular Squidgame is. That's the poisonous irony that I will carry into my grave.
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When oh when will we learn that fictions have consequences.