I'm probably being too charitable towards the old stuff/too harsh on the new stuff.
Also the America-brained topics are more of an endemic issue of the anglo internet, but even German sources had a lot of stuff around 2017 talking about Trump and the like - and yes, unfortunately American hegemony means that it's relevant even abroad.
Survivorship bias. There were tons of shitty rhetoric and writing going on back in the day but nobody wants to remember it any more.
Most of them were probably just lost to time because they were shittily printed zines done in batches of 100
Damn my tendency to go on tangents... But I don't want to be misinterpreted 🥴
That's one of the models for it, yeah, but not exclusively.
The majority of my learning is from reading so I absolutely agree with the bottom text. A lot of the major YouTubers, while many of them I would consider “allies”, I don’t find particularly insightful or difference-making. Too many people “spreading awareness” as an end in itself, or endlessly arguing with liberals and right-wingers.
Channels I do recommend:
- Geopolitical Economy Report, edited by Ben Norton. Especially valuable for the contributions of Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson and other special guests
- Jonas Čeika - CCK Philosophy. His recent series (3 hours total) on the German Revolution, alone, is an incredible contribution with practical utility for socialists organizing today. It’s kind of boring in a history-class-documentary kind of way, but I see it as required education for any revolutionary. I really enjoy his other videos too, like the one on human rights.
The human rights video is an amazing philosophy video to help bring over radlibs. It so clearly deconstructs and applies the lens of materialism onto the doctrine of human rights. An amazing video that should be kept in everyone's log for getting people over that hump.
I have no take on the meme, but the bottom text is on point.
I like to use podcasts to find out about books that interest me enough to be enthusiastic about reading them
gud meem
for academic-reading-theory it's often the reverse i feel, which is neat (often the older books have ideas and suggestions which are outdated, especially wrt ecology)
