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Of course I have a problem with capitalism! But I don't believe that society chose all those things (branded cereal madness, etc), I think it was more or less
by angel_j 8y ago
Of course I have a problem with capitalism! But I don't believe that society chose all those things (branded cereal madness, etc), I think it was more or less thrust on them.
That people seem more interested in getting ahead and pleasing their egos, instead of trying to repair or escape, is a kind of syndrome—the syndrome of being trapped in an idealogy.
DGMW, I would love to berate parenting, childcare, and education in the US; I mean, I would just beat it about the brow for being so retarding, if I could
Like, how do you trade middling entertainment and financial reward for terrible, indoctrinating, media and education for your offspring? You must be some kind of real selfish idiotic shitbrain to send your children to grade C- public school, while you go off and sit at a desk for peanut pay so you can afford, what?, convenient foodstuffs and the trappings of dignified success in a system that yr suspicions suggest doesn't care about you? FOH!
But no, I can only suppose a syndrome, and blame no one. The majority are being used by capitalists, and if they grow in that mold, knowingly or not, successful or not, it's not their fault; there's no obvious, non-serious, way out of capitalist subjugation, except for the American Dream, which is ofc to become one of them.
So, I think it tactical to treat this kind of spectre—invasive media campaigns aimed at children—as an outside, enemy, force; (today, all parents of young people, were themselves targeted by these forces, so they have the right to be pissed about it); If nothing else, people can get behind anti-child-predation, even if they aren't ready to stop the military industrial complex, or capitalism.