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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 mental foundation on which their empire stands.

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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We would pick a book by suggesting & voting in the comments section. Then we read about 10 pages a day and discuss what we read.

Some guardrails:

  • Literature or mythology, no politics or philosophy (that's better suited for other groups; this is a cultural group)

  • Under 200,000 words.

  • Follows the main rule of this comm

  • Short stories are ok 👌

  • Available on the web so we can all access it

  • Has to be a classic, which I will leave undefined cause shure you know yourself

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce

Petals of Blood by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

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The Epic of Gilgamesh