hard to overstate the impact the "zombie apocalypse" genre had on normalizing the idea of mowing down or driving through crowds of unarmed people as self-defense. remember how popular zombie shit was four or five years ago? it went straight to conservatives' lizard brains 1/9— knife wife (@ComradCapacitor) August 31, 2020
I mean that's not what she's saying. She's making a Gramscian Marxist analysis of the zombie subgenre. Basically the base (settler colonial capitalism) is informing the superstructure (culture) which then further perpetuates and exacerbates the base in turn. If you think culture like movies and tv have no effect on the actions of the general population you're just naive and wrong. Likewise, if you think culture comes out of nowhere to inform the actions of the populace you're also wrong.
Capitalism --> rugged individualism --> zombie movies --> people adopting tactics and mindset of people in zombie movies.
NOT zombie movies --> people being violent Fascists lol
It’s like people hear the ‘material’ in ‘dialectic materialism’ and completely forget that it’s about the dialectic between the material base and the superstructure.
Protip, don't automatically reject things that sound wrong to you at first, understand what you're rejecting first and be able to defend your rejection rationally, even if you just keep it to yourself.
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I mean that's not what she's saying. She's making a Gramscian Marxist analysis of the zombie subgenre. Basically the base (settler colonial capitalism) is informing the superstructure (culture) which then further perpetuates and exacerbates the base in turn. If you think culture like movies and tv have no effect on the actions of the general population you're just naive and wrong. Likewise, if you think culture comes out of nowhere to inform the actions of the populace you're also wrong.
Capitalism --> rugged individualism --> zombie movies --> people adopting tactics and mindset of people in zombie movies.
NOT zombie movies --> people being violent Fascists lol
Fuckin thank you.
It’s like people hear the ‘material’ in ‘dialectic materialism’ and completely forget that it’s about the dialectic between the material base and the superstructure.
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Protip, don't automatically reject things that sound wrong to you at first, understand what you're rejecting first and be able to defend your rejection rationally, even if you just keep it to yourself.