• innocentlurker [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Umm, why would I watch a video that takes up time when I could simply read a few sentences and move on? Never understood the trend.

    • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      the bourgeoisie is preparing the proletariat for a forced decline in literacy because mass education is a threat to capitalism

      :trade-offer: trade offer: you get endless attention-span-lowering entertainment, and i get an endless source of cheap and unquestioning workers

      • daisy
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        1 year ago

        Brave New World was not supposed to be a how-to manual.

        • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          on the contrary, dystopian fictions are always interpreted as cautionary tales by the working class, but as instruction manuals by the ruling class. Class standpoint is essential to how one processes information.

          • Rom [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from the classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.

    • fox [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      Brain likes when colors and sounds go whoosh, and it's really easy to get someone into a dopamine spiral and feed them ads compared to text.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Video is a terrible format unless you're watching nature videos. CMV you can't

    • BoxedFenders [any, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      Everyone wants to duplicate TikTok's success. I'm not quite sure what its special sauce is that makes it so much more popular than rivals, but no one else can catch up.