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Is it me or have people become even worse at media literacy? (hexbear.net)
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Like a story can literally beat someone over the head with a theme or moral and people somehow come to the opposite conclusion?

It's like "Tyler Durden is so manly and cool" except every bit of media feels like it's misinterpreted like that now.

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[–] Kefla@hexbear.net 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah 1984's assessment of the average worker is basically that they are meat robots who have no effect on the world and that it doesn't matter what they do or think because nobody does or should give them or their affairs the slightest thought

Orwell was a "socialist" though agony-shivering

[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Bri*ish socialism has always been deeply aristocratic at its core and Orwell can't help but exemplify that colonial cop mentality in his writing

[–] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

His interview with Stalin is hilarious, and it's very interesting to see Stalin calmly explain himself to a dunce.

[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)
[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I remember the situation with regard to the technical intelligentsia several decades ago. At that time the technical intelligentsia was numerically small, but there was much to do and every engineer, technician and intellectual found his opportunity. That is why the technical intelligentsia was the least revolutionary class. Now, however, there is a super­abundance of technical intellectuals, and their mentality has changed very sharply. The skilled man, who would formerly never listen to revolutionary talk, is now greatly interested in it.

Recently I was dining with the Royal Society, our great English scientific society. The President’s speech was a speech for social planning and scientific control. Thirty years ago, they would not have listened to what I say to them now. Today, the man at the head of the Royal Society holds revolutionary views, and insists on the scientific reorganisation of human society. Your class-war propaganda has not kept pace with these facts. Mentality changes.

goddamit, yet another tally in the "modern US is where Britain was a century ago" column

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Stalin: The Communists base themselves on rich historical experience which teaches that obsolete classes do not voluntarily abandon the stage of history.

Recall the history of England in the seventeenth century. Did not many say that the old social system had decayed? But did it not, nevertheless, require a Cromwell to crush it by force?

Wells: Cromwell acted on the basis of the constitution and in the name of constitutional order.

i-cant

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago

hot damn Stalin really has a firmer grasp on English history than the englishman

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Wells: Cromwell acted on the basis of the constitution and in the name of constitutional order.

jesse-wtf

[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago

"The material conditions are such that the treatlerite strata of society is demanding more treats because their treat allocation has been somewhat reduced.

Therefore a materialist analysis of the political situation is uncalled for given that these people are demanding more treats. Also I got invited to the king's court to speak to him, which further proves my point somehow. The only conclusion that can be gleaned from this is that class conflict, which is based on material conditions, can be abandoned as it is deprecated by the current material conditions and it is trumped by the centrality of idealism."

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] Self_Sealing_Stem_Bolt@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago

The same guy who refers to the working class as sheep in animal farm.