Aye, I saw you talking about that in the other thread. Very cool.

I'll defo give that one a watch. I watched The Upright Man a while ago - it's a good Sankara primer but unfortunately the commentary is very western, even if it is sympathetic at points. The classic 'good man goes too far' sort of thing.

Oh, research for sure - I think I'll mention Toussaint as a reason they'd be interested in Sankara - revolution against Europe.

So true, nice one, thanks

I was going to do Toussaint! I knew they had some of his stuff in their archive too, but then I checked and they'd recently done a big exhibition about him, so it might seem like I'd researched them and tried to pander, or something.

To be fair, KSI and The Paul Brothers paved the way for what YouTube has now become. For the worse of society.

I'm thinking of choosing Thomas Sankara.

I would market Thomas Sankara on TikTok with a 'Get Ready With Me' trend, where he could explain his famous military fatigues and red Beret, or a 'what I eat in a day' video, where he could talk about all the locally grown produce, and how he made Burkina Faso self sufficient. Maybe one of those 'whats your salary videos' to show how he was a servant of the people, incorruptible by money.

they definitely killed dag hammarskjold

I'll take what you've said in mind. I won't really reply beyond that because my stuff is just getting removed anyway and I think that's a sign for me to move on from the conversation.

Thank you all for providing your alternate experiences. I will think about them a lot.

That's not what I was doing though. I said that life makes it difficult to do so. At the base though, some factors need to be established as a base to work from.

I guess because my stuff keeps getting removed nobody can see the original point.

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I guess there is a more relevant foreword, yeah, but the main thing is that as a phrase I find it more precise and recognisable than 'inventing reality'. I love Parenti, and his strength is making things easy to understand from a common sense perspective, but that's my problem with 'inventing reality' as a phrase - used in conversation or academically, it's a combination of words that people from all sides of the political spectrum use for different reasons. Manufacturing Consent is a clear definition tied to Chomsky and his left-ish base.

It's worth reading both really. Open a mind in conversation with Parenti, then bring in the big term from Chomsky once you've got them where you want them.

Yep... I read it when I was 17 and I was like woaaahhhhh, and then I re read it recently and had to accept Saunders is a giant lib

it was quite big for me in understanding just how bullshit history can be though, when Saunders compares the different accounts and all that

didn't you find it kind of overly Doomer and pointless?

I'll third Killing Hope.

Manufacturing Consent is of course a classic too.

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what y'all think about Lincoln in The Bardo

thank you matt sharp

All true, but also easier said than done.