/lit/ - Literature

>>6700065
>implying that that comic is true

>>4810730
I think capitalism has too many ills (especially with the technology we possess) endemic to it for us to keep hedging our language. Capitalism is a problem. A big one. And one that threatens our humanity in a number of fundamental ways.

The mass media generations are enough evidence.

But I think that in most conversations about capitalism we miss the worst pillar in its support: television and mass media. Yes, of course, we are discussing that here, but it seems leftists will chase all manner of ideas, and even touch on advertisement, but they all seem to ignore that television brought a fundamental shift to human lifestyles.

An average of 6 hours a day watching furniture that various profit-motivated businesses spoon-feed you! It's the dystopia we saw, but never even recognized!

It boggles my mind every day that I live in a society where 6 hours a day of staring at glowing furniture is deemed totally normal. And god forbid someone seriously discuss that the people broadcasting on this entrancing furniture may have surreptitious motives.

>>4788259
I would argue that *all* political thought appears frozen in some pre-mass-media state.

Both communist and capitalist states (for all their structural faults and failure to live up to either's ideal) seem primarily influenced by a broadcast ideal. For capitalism this ideal is in its advertisement and entertainment, an unattainable material wealth in consumption. For communism it is a cult of personality. But both have succumbed to electronic religions.

Modern socialism (and I am a socialist), but also modern political thought, needs to address the rapid change in socio-psychological environments triggered by the media revolutions. And, more aggravatingly for such thinkers, we'd barely even begun to contemplate the effects of television before the internet revolution started to shift thought *again*.

>>3178138

Man was born an animal.

Civilization turned him into an automaton.

Who knows what the next chapter will bring?

This picture is 100% true.

use this as a cover