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> I meant pacifism is promoted as the only recourse for the general citizen What media are you consuming? Take a look at any list of top-grossing films of the
by munificent 2y ago
> I meant pacifism is promoted as the only recourse for the general citizen
What media are you consuming? Take a look at any list of top-grossing films of the past few decades and it's riddled with non-state lone wolf actors using violence to solve their problems.
You're saying that John Wick, Creed, Spider-Man, The Fall Guy, Furiosa, Venom, etc. are teaching Americans to be pacifists?
- tines 2y agoThis misunderstanding was already solved in a sibling comment.
- vouaobrasil 2y agoOf course. Movies are an outlet to let off steam. We experience the violence in the theatre that is increasingly precisely because the pacified masses need a strong outlet to escape the lack of recourse for injustice in the real world.
- throw310822 2y agoThis is a good explanation without supporting the idea that there is no propaganda of violence. There is. And btw, the US are one of the most violent advanced countries.
- vouaobrasil 2y agoOnly because the violence is a side effect of having fairly unregulated capitalism. But eventually the system will stop that.
- munificent 2y agoYou're moving the goal posts. First you said that "pacifism is heavily promoted in mainstream media". When I pointed out that American mainstream media is absolutely riddled with "non-state invidualist hero uses personal violence to solve their problems", now you claim that the media is for "letting off steam".
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