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NoYank. Remove All American Media And Culture From Your Life

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Remove All American Media And Culture From Your Life

Anti-imperialist comm to help you in your personal journey of cultural anti-imperialism.

American culture has spread all over the world, it has dumbed down and impoverished our variegated pre-colonial and non-capitalist cultures. Every time you yank yourself, a bit of their culture worms its way into your mind. Sometimes it's explicit propaganda like Top Gun, but sometimes it's subtle: the contempt shown for the poor, the celebration of selfishness, the value-system of their empire.

All inputs enter the mind, are absorbed, and blossom as thoughts and deeds. Mass-produced culture dulls you and makes you a boring, mass-produced personality. And nations are losing their personality by letting one imperial power do this to them.

That the empire is doing this as a more-or-less deliberate tool of influence doesn't need stressing.

Stop doing this to yourself. Don't watch their television. Don't watch their films. Don't read their stupid news and politics: ABC and CNN and NBC and the rest. Don't be so fucking boring. You don't have to be boring and stupid. Turn off your TV. Pick up some of your country's classic books, or listen to African funk, or go to a storytelling night.

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Alan Moore "ventured my opinion that the adult multitudes queueing for superhero movies were potentially an indicator of emotional arrest, which could have worrying political and social implications" (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think Alan is an ancom unfortunately on a bit of a Debord "oh no not the spectacle" bent here. Cultural analysis of fascist ideologies falls flat compared to historical analysis of fascism.

Example I always give is Verhoeven putting a "sexless" scene in Starship Troopers essentially as a reference to Orwell's "people only have sex for the party in the evil socialist future, also young women are prudes and snitches grrrr" (let's skirt past the real reasons he wrote that) - it doesn't make any actual sense for the people watching it, like "oh this is weird why aren't they slavering over each other like dogs????” did not occur to people. The subtext is too literary and also not really subversive at all.

Trying to examine fascism as a collection of particular beliefs just doesn't hold up.

Is it disturbing people are lining up for Marvel movies? I guess, but he is treating this like a supply and demand thing. Do people really clamor for movies like Battlefield and Iron Man to have imperialist ideology in them, or do they just kind of go see what's on tap? It again reverses the cause and effect of fascist ideology. Ideology is a tool for them, a guise that can be discarded, or used to parody and mock other movements.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

TBH I didn’t read the article, so I didn’t know it had anything to do with fascism. If Moore were a Marxist, I’d have picked up on that by now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

He claims to be an ancom but also a warlock, so, not a materialist for sure