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> The video game?? I can't prove it, but I strongly suspect our pop culture is being intentionally Marvel-ized to keep full-grown adults' mental models of the

> The video game?? I can't prove it, but I strongly suspect our pop culture is being intentionally Marvel-ized to keep full-grown adults' mental models of the world at a grade school level. (We have to stop Voldemort!! Captain Gandalf needs our support, and people who question him are traitors!!) > Speak for yourself. Not everyone is safe. That's an increasingly rare privilege as the wealth divide grows, and many people attribute this divide to our monetary system. The crux of the issue, I think, and why I doubt decentralized stores of value will be legal for much longer. "Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws!" - Mayer Amschel Rothschild, probably apocryphally

x-complexity 4y ago
(twawaaay) > > > Take a look at The Last of Us if you want to know what happens (mike741) > > The video game?? (JPws_Prntr_Fngr) > I can't prove it, but I strongly suspect our pop culture is being intentionally Marvel-ized to keep full-grown adults' mental models of the world at a grade school level. (We have to stop Voldemort!! Captain Gandalf needs our support, and people who question him are traitors!!) This article sums it up: https://web.archive.org/web/20210122122555/https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/12/political-disney-world.html#:~:text=Back%20to%20Disney%20movies https://web.archive.org/web/20210122122555/https://waitbutwh.... Essentially, what has happened is the application of Disney movie/show narratives taken outside of their intended context: What was meant as the starting point for guiding children on morality has instead been used as the ultimate end-goal & a shining beacon of what is considered to be moral or immoral. In simpler terms, this is the "Disney-ification" of the political world: We're the good ones, they're the enemy, they must be opposed/defeated/unalived. From the article: > In high-rung politics, it’s understood that people aren’t 1s and 0s—they’re all 0.5s, each in their own messy, complicated, unique way. And to people who see people as 0.5s, it’s clear that PDW narratives not only dehumanize their opponents, they dehumanize everybody into fake cartoon people. > https://web.archive.org/web/20210122122555im_/https://28oa9i1t08037ue3m1l0i861-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/18-dehumanization-1-600x397.png https://web.archive.org/web/20210122122555im_/https://28oa9i...

x-complexity 4y ago

(twawaaay) > > > Take a look at The Last of Us if you want to know what happens (mike741) > > The video game?? (JPws_Prntr_Fngr) > I can't prove it, but I strongly suspect our pop culture is being intentionally Marvel-ized to keep full-grown adults' mental models of the world at a grade school level. (We have to stop Voldemort!! Captain Gandalf needs our support, and people who question him are traitors!!) This article sums it up: https://web.archive.org/web/20210122122555/https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/12/political-disney-world.html#:~:text=Back%20to%20Disney%20movies https://web.archive.org/web/20210122122555/https://waitbutwh.... Essentially, what has happened is the application of Disney movie/show narratives taken outside of their intended context: What was meant as the starting point for guiding children on morality has instead been used as the ultimate end-goal & a shining beacon of what is considered to be moral or immoral. In simpler terms, this is the "Disney-ification" of the political world: We're the good ones, they're the enemy, they must be opposed/defeated/unalived. From the article: > In high-rung politics, it’s understood that people aren’t 1s and 0s—they’re all 0.5s, each in their own messy, complicated, unique way. And to people who see people as 0.5s, it’s clear that PDW narratives not only dehumanize their opponents, they dehumanize everybody into fake cartoon people. > https://web.archive.org/web/20210122122555im_/https://28oa9i1t08037ue3m1l0i861-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/18-dehumanization-1-600x397.png https://web.archive.org/web/20210122122555im_/https://28oa9i...