More you know, more difficult to stay happy.
Zeitgeist: Addendum kinda did that for me. But the book Voltaire’s Bastards was the real lynchpin well before that. Even before that, back in the late eighties, I read a book about the history of money that I borrowed from the Devonport library that really shaped my views about finances and showed me what a farce it all is, but I can in no way remember the title or author.
A recent post on lemmy mentioned something called ‘money dysphoria’, and it really hit home.
Reading Marx is like unearthing the Necronomicon in a university library, a forbidden text that lays bare capitalism’s inner workings. But the true horror lies in realizing you’re surrounded by people who treat exploitation as ‘just how things work.’ Suddenly the world reveals itself as a self-sustaining asylum, where the so-called ‘rational’ diligently reproduce the madness of the system.
Someone please make this a tagline.
oh and you will hate it with a passion. and itch inside when someone reproduces the propaganda, it sticks out like a sore thumb.
Oh yeah, once you start seeing it, you realize that we’re swimming in propaganda and people are simply regurgitating it uncritically like chatbots.
It was The Corporation for me. Then, I discovered Adam Curtis. Smartest Guys in the Room, some Michael Moore stuff, then I really started taking a look at War docs with Smedley Butler and Dalton Trumbo and Charlie Chaplin shouting at me from the 1930s and 40s. Errol Morris kicked ass in the Fog of War, John Pilger kicked ass in Occupation 101, and BBC kicked ass with the Death of Yugoslavia.
This was 20 or 25 years ago. All this seems trite by comparison to where we are now.
where can I move to
He is me, and I am him.
A fan of Adam Curtis, I see.
I’ll have to see if hypernormalisation is still on iPlayer
Edit: yes it is, well that’s not what I needed to discover at 1am with work tomorrow…
Siren song for those browsing with an internet connection of a geographically British persuasion: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p04b183c
The new one was pretty decent as well pretty funny.
