Every time I see westerns post some brainworms shit the usual response is “well propaganda is a hell of a drug”.

But if western propaganda is really that effective, how the fuck did we get here? I’d think if it was really this good at melting people’s brain’s it’d be effective enough to prevent communities like this from even existing. So like are we special or something?

Also raises the question, if we’re able to get over this BS, wtf is everyone else’s excuse for falling hook-line-and-sinker for it?

  • GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 years ago

    we are here because we have enough critical thinking and reading comprehension that we kept asking questions until we found the real underlying explanation to politics, history, and world events.

    Wrong, and immensely so. Firstly, only a minority of people on this board really understand Marxism beyond shitposting vernacular (which is whatever, they have lives), and that’s before accounting for the non-marxists here. Secondly, if you understood Marx better you would not be so inclined to answer the question of a systemic phenomenon with nothing more than the atomized account of us each independently having some kind of notable level of intellectual virtue. We are not uncaused causes, that is mythologizing idealism. For weirdos like us to be produced often enough for a space like this to exist, there must be a systemic account.

    That account, far from the self-flattery that you propose is that we are losers, rejects, outcasts, people for whom society isn’t working well (i.e. not benefitting), which leads us to wanting to change the rules of the game so that we may stop losing eventually.