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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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Friends just made me watch 'Nyad' [2023 film]. Holy shit is this what hollywood films are like? (lemmy.ml)
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The moral of the story is to be really mean and inconsiderate of people around you. That plus wishful thinking + Protestant work ethic will make you heroic. That's the entire point, repeated over and over again throughout the film.

It's just constant, really obvious repetition of lines like โ€“ "I'm torn between that and the loathing of the self-respect I might lose if I don't do it. I suppose the word is pride. I, uh... I feel that I failed, mentally especially."

Here's a dialogue from it โ€“

You really don't get it, do you? What this is like for us? We're broke. The time, the emotional toll. I mean, it's been years, Diana.

Well, suck it up. We're a team, right?

Wow.

Your superiority complex is really screwed up, you know that?

Yeah. Well, everyone should have a superiority complex. Everyone should feel like the star of their own life.

I'm not even interpreting: it's explicitly trying to glorify pride and using other people for your ego. That's the whole gist of the story, more than I can get across in a few quotes.

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