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NoYank. Remove All American Media And Culture From Your Life
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Remove All American Media And Culture From Your Life
Anti-imperialist comm to help you in your personal journey of cultural anti-imperialism.
American culture has spread all over the world, it has dumbed down and impoverished our variegated pre-colonial and non-capitalist cultures. Every time you yank yourself, a bit of their culture worms its way into your mind. Sometimes it's explicit propaganda like Top Gun, but sometimes it's subtle: the contempt shown for the poor, the celebration of selfishness, the value-system of their empire.
All inputs enter the mind, are absorbed, and blossom as thoughts and deeds. Mass-produced culture dulls you and makes you a boring, mass-produced personality. And nations are losing their personality by letting one imperial power do this to them.
That the empire is doing this as a more-or-less deliberate tool of influence doesn't need stressing.
Stop doing this to yourself. Don't watch their television. Don't watch their films. Don't read their stupid news and politics: ABC and CNN and NBC and the rest. Don't be so fucking boring. You don't have to be boring and stupid. Turn off your TV. Pick up some of your country's classic books, or listen to African funk, or go to a storytelling night.
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Give recommendations of internationalist media. Discuss alternatives. ๐ถ๐ฅ๐บ๐ฎ๐ฐ
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Bookclubs for anti-imperialist books or just any non-american books
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Complain about americanised people and culture.
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Talk about your motivations. Share your personal journal of de-americanisation.
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Movies are not always about billionaires, so your premise is incorrect.
Here's a short list off the top of my head ..
But movies are often about escapism, and rich people can often do things we can't do.
Also it's a great plot device. Minimum Wage Tony Stark couldn't be Iron Man (despite the fact he built the Mark I suit in a cave).
The fact that Tony Stark is wealthy being imagination helps in the suspense of disbelief. The same could be said about Bruce Wayne.
Haha, one title I was thinking of posting was "When it's not about cops or special forces, it's about billionaires", so you've largely proven my point.
Even then, if you want a struggling superhero, there's Spider-Man.
Rooster Cogburn, the 1975 sequel to True Grit, feels oddly out of place in that list. Blockbuster, blockbuster, serviceable sequel to a genuine classic, blockbuster, blockbuster, blockbuster. I really don't mean to be critical, the protagonist is clearly not a billionaire so it fits, but I am very curious as to the reasoning.