Eduardo Galeano, born on September 3rd in 1940, was a Uruguayan journalist and author known for, among other texts, his work "Open Veins of Latin America", which the editors of Monthly Review Press called "perhaps the finest description of the primary accumulation of capital since Marx".
Galeano began his career as a political cartoonist and journalist - at fourteen, he was contributing political cartoons to the socialist newspaper "El Sol". At 20, he was the managing director of "Marcha", a storied weekly in Uruguay.
Some of his high profile work as a journalist includes an interview with Juan PerΓ³n, a laudatory profile of Che Guevara, and a portrait of Pu Yi, the last emperor of China, who had just completed his Maoist re-education in a nondescript building on the outskirts of Beijing.
Galeano is perhaps best known for his book "Open Veins of Latin America", which details how, through five centuries of plunder by European conquistadors and American corporations, the region's abundant natural resources had been extracted to enrich a few local elites and many foreign interests.
The editors of Monthly Review Press, which published the U.S. edition, described the book as "perhaps the finest description of the primary accumulation of capital since Marx." President Hugo ChΓ‘vez gave a Spanish-language copy of Open Veins to President Barack Obama on his first diplomatic visit to the region.
"The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become accustomed to suffering with clenched teeth."
- Eduardo Galeano
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How do you stop being ashamed of your shit media taste? Like, I watch an incredible movie such as Mulholland Dr. or Cinema Paradiso, I feel things, I recognize them as masterpieces, but they don't stay in my soul if that makes sense, while inferior media such as anime or tokusatsu shows just affect me more. I shouldn't care this much about this, but I am always self-conscious about this and I don't know why it is so fucking weird.
Not liking fun art is internalized classism. It is that white marble statue shit. Probably some of that CIA writer's workshop shit as well If your story is comprehensible people might start to think about a better world being possible so that has to be frowned upon.
Fun movies aren't worse cause they are fun.
I think you are on to something. It seems that I prefer the lack of emotional and thematic subtlety in my faves, it just seems more genuine I guess
More real is a perfect way to put it. Soviet realism was ideally the opposite of of this vibe as I understand it.
Art is intensely personal. I love Fallout: New Vegas mods partially because of the amateurish nature of the art. It's extremely personal, and because I know the game like I know the back of my hand I can appreciate dev decisions that much more.
Have you considered that tokusatsu is actually better than cinema?