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  • Infamousblt [any]
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    4 years ago

    I'd honestly love to see someone provide some detailed analysis of the how the modern west got to be like this. We're jerked around a LOT and do literally nothing about it. How was society so successfully defanged? I have lots of ideas and can point to lots of individual reasons sure, but I'd love to see a comprehensive analysis, because it has been almost complete and total annihilation of any sort of real resistance.

    • LangdonAlger [any]
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      4 years ago

      I don't feel like fleshing this out, but violence (with the exception of state-sanctioned violence or superheroes) is seen as reactionary, wrong, and for dumb people 100% of the time. When do you see an average person using righteous violence in popular media? They have to be smarter or sneakier or funnier or something, but stronger/more violent is seen as wrong. But we love watching historical texts of violence (Game of Thrones, etc).

      • SoyViking [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Pop culture has no problem glorifying righteous violence as long as it is used against "criminals" or "terrorists".

      • Runcible [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        Game of thrones is not a historical text.

        I couldn't stop myself, it was this or have a stroke

        • LangdonAlger [any]
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          4 years ago

          Yes it is. I watched it in the past. Therefore it is history.

      • Infamousblt [any]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah but how did we get like this. How was society successfully manipulated to be so damn docile

        • Caocao [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          widespread rentiership is a relatively new development, between the New Deal and Reagan it was pretty easy for the average working class American to buy their own home