It’s kinda weird to have tons of huge portraits of just 1 person instead of art celebrating the masses or many different people or whatever.

I understand the impulse but now that we know enough to know that great man theory is a harmful way to think about events, how do we prevent large populations from falling into that hero worship mindset in future communist countries?

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Whatever Cuba did and continues to do. Upholding Fidel, Guevara and so on but not glorifying them with statues and monuments and the people having photos in every home.

    Just a little bit of pushback is probably all that's necessary to stop people putting stuff up by themselves. You just have to make it cringe, embarrassing, something that's just a little weird to do.

    Put a scene or two in widely popular tv shows that has someone acting a bit embarrassed by the behaviour. Over here in Britain you could put anything you want in the soaps and it would get picked up in the population, as long as you don't go overboard with it a little injection into popular tv here and there would do a lot for injecting ideas or beliefs into the general population. This has to not be done in a cringe way in and of itself though, subtlety is very important.

    • VenetianMask [any]
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      2 years ago

      I think if you have a leader popular enough for people to want to put pictures of them in their homes, they could probably just tell their people that they thought it was weird and please don't do it.

      • KiaKaha [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        lol wait until you find out how pretty much every leader has wanted to be cremated and forgotten. Invariably they end up bunged in a mausoleum.

        The people want what the people want, and the people want giant busts of Lenin.