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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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I'm trying to read more original French and Spanish, but I'm not at the level to read Balzac or Cervantes.

Who are the Dan Browns and Steven Kings of Spain and France?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Airport thriller is a new concept to me so I'm not sure if these qualify:

Zafón's La sombra del viento. A best-seller, quite dark and riveting with a Spanish Civil War background.

Teixidor's El libro de las moscas. I don't know if it was originally written in Catalan or in Spanish though. More mystery than thriller as far as I remember.

García-Márquez's Crónica de una muerte anunciada. Absolute classics, both book and author.

Atxaga's Obabakoak. Also more mystery than thriller. Also originally written in Basque, but the Spanish translation was done by the author himself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Airport thriller is a new concept to me so I’m not sure if these qualify:

'airport novels' is a phrase for popular, lowbrow stories with a mass appeal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airport_novel

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The ones I listed are probably a bit on the highbrow side but also good enough so they gained a fair deal of mainstream success.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Arsène Lupin is a series of French books about a cool thief – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars%C3%A8ne_Lupin