Addendum to my unqualified praise for "Don't Look Up."

[sabotabby]

 After a round of internet arguments (not on DW, elsewhere) I am left to conclude that the two major problems of pop cultural criticism are 1) A Modest Proposal is no longer taught in schools*, and 2) no one on the online left has actually read as much Bertolt Brecht as they claim to, if any at all.

I am happy to elaborate in comments.

* I am generally in favour of replacing Dead White Guy Literature in the compulsory high school canon but A Modest Proposal is my one exception. I am open to replacements and expansions for it, particularly by First Nations, Métis, or Inuit authors. Walking Eagle News is great and I absolutely plan to use it.

Comments

[altamira16]

There is a lot of leftism without any historical context, and it is weird.

[sabotabby]

It's always been a problem, and I remember movement elders complaining about it when I was a baby anarkid. But I think the difference for me is that I spent a lot of time in groups that weren't just other 20-somethings (largely because I got purged from those) and it meant that I ended up talking to older generations and reading theory and such. I think the kids these days are getting a fair bit of the latter but not necessarily the former.