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.
Give recommendations of internationalist media. Discuss alternatives. ๐ถ๐ฅ๐บ๐ฎ๐ฐ
Bookclubs for anti-imperialist books or just any non-american books
Complain about americanised people and culture.
Talk about your motivations. Share your personal journal of de-americanisation.
Hoping to see it tonight. I posted the trailer a fortnight ago and am excited to see it.
If anyone is lookiing for more non-US/Western films - Kill is out now too and Twilight of the Warriors: Walled City (currently my favourite film of the year) just got a US release.
Thanks! I'll check out your recommendations!
I'll do a quick cross-post to here.
edit: all done - you can find the trailers on this community and I have booked my ticket for Kalki.