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I think all media serves as 'covert' propaganda, for a certain way of thinking. [1] Westerners sell the American dream and the American consumerist way of life.
by bergstromm466 6y ago
I think all media serves as 'covert' propaganda, for a certain way of thinking. [1] Westerners sell the American dream and the American consumerist way of life. If we all lived the way Americans do todat, we would need another one to two planet earth's.
> pirating is not sustainable
Please stop shaming people for not being as rich as you. For not having 'disposable' income and have money for 'entertainment'. Have you seen the state of the world? [2] It's honestly not as fair as you make it out to be, it's not sustainable for Hollywood to keep getting the kind of power it currently has to tell stories. [3] In my eyes Westeners are so psychopathic and culturally grandiose to believe that their systems are just and fair. They are all too happy to cecede control to the corporatocracy, their (perceived) benevolent overlords.
I believe what is not sustainable is intellectual property rights used by rentier capitalists to extract parasitic rents:
"Whether we are streaming content or licensing software, we are paying for the privilege of slowly ceding control of private property to corporate gatekeepers." [4]
[1] https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/16/the-history-of-hollywood-propaganda-for-white-supremacy-at-home-and-us-militarism-abroad/ https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/16/the-history-of-holly... and https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/02/20/hollywoods-imperial-propaganda/ https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/02/20/hollywoods-imperial-...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btF6nKHo2i0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btF6nKHo2i0
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5xfBtD6rLY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5xfBtD6rLY
[4] http://archive.is/y0lQf http://archive.is/y0lQf / https://onezero.medium.com/landlord-2-0-techs-new-rentier-capitalism-a0bfe491b463 https://onezero.medium.com/landlord-2-0-techs-new-rentier-ca...