Late Stage Capitalism

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In depictions of dystopias people are coerced to watch propaganda by force, by not having alternatives, by drugs ... (lemmygrad.ml)

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... in our hellish, capitalist dystopia people gladly pay for it.

Streaming services are available everywhere: on TVs, computers, phones, tablets and anything else with a screen and a network card. They ensure an uninterrupted audiovisual assault on our mind with Pentagon-approved movies and made-for-binge-watching TV shows. All palatable to us because of sights and sounds that play to our emotions, moving along a simple plot with dialogue that never challenges. Our defenses are brought down and we aren't even aware that our mind is filling up with neoliberal ideology.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Fahrenheit 451 did a good job portraying this, though there are some aspects of the book which are a bit shaky.