capitalist perseverance porn

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April 28, 2019 at 6:40 pm #100685

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perseverance porn:https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/08/24/media-portray-these-tales-perseverance-uplifting-and-inspirational-theyre-actually-horror-stories/221087

Another:https://fair.org/home/medias-grim-addiction-to-perseverance-porn/

“…These stories are typically shared for the purposes of poor-shaming, typically under the guise of inspirational life advice. “This man is proof we all just need to keep walking, no matter what life throws at us,” insisted Denver ABC7 anchor Anne Trujillo, after sharing one of those stories of a poor person forced to walk thousands of miles a year to survive.

“A healthy press would take these anecdotes of “can do” spirit and ask bigger questions, like why are these people forced into such absurd hardship? Who benefits from skyrocketing college costs? Why does the public transit in this person’s city not have subsidies for the poor? Why aren’t employers forced to offer time off for catastrophic accidents? But time and again, the media mindlessly tells the bootstrap human interest story, never questioning the underlying system at work.”

April 28, 2019 at 7:39 pm #100688

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April 30, 2019 at 7:30 pm #100791

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“inspiration porn”

link:https://www.huffpost.com/entry/on-inspiration-porn_b_596cedd0e4b05561da5a595e

link:https://ncdj.org/category/inspiration-porn/

May 1, 2019 at 11:02 am #100817

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This isn’t strictly inspiration porn, I don’t think. It’s a cousin of it, though.

May 1, 2019 at 5:51 pm #100832

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Well to me this all relates to the Marxian notion that Capitalism makes people stupid. I mean think about it — lots of these people are ‘doing their best’ to live inspiring lives and ‘give back’ and be ‘positive’ and all ‘that’ — in a system thats crushing them. So why dont they put two and two together? Cause they cant. Cause the system propagandized them 24 hours a day 7 days a week. So they simply ‘cant’ ‘see’ the box they are in. They dont have the conceptual tools. So they think inside the box. And vote for tweedle dee or tweedle dum, etc, etc, etc.

The evil beauty of the system is that it makes itself invisible.

Bread and circuses, anyone?

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