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Apr. 30th, 2007 10:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I took the kittums up to the roof for the first time this year. I'd post pictures of that, but wouldn't you just rather see my cat Photoshopped into a socialist realist painting? Yeah, I thought so too.

Heh.
Today's game, following up on a comment exchange with
cpxbrex in my last post, is to name as many movies as you can that end with hackers hijacking the airwaves to broadcast The Truth What Will Lead to Revolution. I'll get you started *SPOILER WARNING*: They Live!, Serenity, V for Vendetta, and This Revolution.
And why is this such a common fictional fantasy?
Go!

Heh.
Today's game, following up on a comment exchange with
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And why is this such a common fictional fantasy?
Go!
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Date: 2007-04-30 02:52 pm (UTC)Pump Up The Volume (sorta)
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Date: 2007-04-30 03:01 pm (UTC)Along the new path where Mr. Twiddles did lead.
To a righteous cause he raised up the kittens,
Inspired them to labour and valourous deed.
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Date: 2007-04-30 03:07 pm (UTC)because it's easy and quick. The idea that revolutuionary consciousness can come unmediated from someone speaking TRUTH is not a new concept and certainly easier to show than endless political meetings and organization. Plus movie makers and writers like to overinflate the value of media. It's undeerstandable. I overestimate the value of cheese.
There are other theoretical precedents, but the idea of the rapture-like, non-bolshevik, final general strike against evil comes to us radicals via the Yippies who admired the IWW who took it from Georges Sorel. Somewhere along the way it lost the concept that the working class needed to organize itself to be ready for that moment instead of assuming (as those movies do) that people will just instinctively, you know, know what to do.
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Date: 2007-04-30 03:10 pm (UTC)1. Broadcast the truth
2. ...
3. Revolution!
...looks a bit more like:
1. Broadcast the truth
2. "Starving children in the Third World and powerful multinationals, you say? Ho hum. Pass the salt, would you?"
3. "Whatsherface shaved her head! Can you believe it?"
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Date: 2007-04-30 03:27 pm (UTC)Here is something similar, of some sorts. Russian music video "Capital". Pictures speak of themselves, but the song goes along this like:
"In my left hand I've got "Snickers" in my right one - "Mars"
My PR manager, Karl Marx"
Happy 1st of May!
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Date: 2007-04-30 03:47 pm (UTC)BUT!
You are my fucking hero! That image is the best image ever in the history of the world!
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Date: 2007-04-30 04:00 pm (UTC)My friend had a Siamese once we called "Mao, the Great Helmscat".
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Date: 2007-04-30 04:15 pm (UTC)I'll have to ponder the taking over the airwaves thing, because I know I know some others.
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Date: 2007-04-30 05:12 pm (UTC)I had a cat named Chairman Meow. I thought I was being soooo original, too.
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Date: 2007-04-30 05:46 pm (UTC)I'm stealing it!
That's background material, comrade!
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Date: 2007-04-30 08:23 pm (UTC)The narrative satisfaction is that it's a very traditional narrative. It's about the lone hero who finds the truth and brings it to the masses -- it's functionally a bunch of aristocratic tripe, the hero making the passage into the other world and back, carrying with them a mystical secret. It's very Campbellian, and thus it is easy and resonates with a lot of people.
Secondly, it satisfies people politically. The AUDIENCE is allowed to feel that the problem is just that they don't have the proper information, that what prevents "them" from "doing the right thing" is that some superhero hasn't come along and spoon-fed them the truth. It enables them to lull themselves into feeling that they're not responsible for understanding the world around them -- they are never the problem, after all.
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Date: 2007-05-01 02:37 am (UTC)It's terribly depressing.
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Date: 2007-04-30 08:51 pm (UTC)kinda
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Date: 2007-04-30 10:26 pm (UTC)That is such a common fictional fantasy because of Judaism, Christianity and Marxism.
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Date: 2007-04-30 10:41 pm (UTC):D
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Date: 2007-04-30 11:18 pm (UTC)But my brain may be making that up.
I always figured the scene appeals so much because everyone (myself included) feels foolishly that if they could only make people listen - make them listen and hear and not interrupt - they would be called over to the other side. They would understand the truth and realise it, and accept it.
I'm so cute when I'm wrong.
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Date: 2007-05-01 12:16 am (UTC)I think the common fictional fantasy is Democracy! One who believes they live in a democratic society should believe that if everyone knew something wrong was happening, that would be the end of it.
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