The Western nations look down on the countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America, and believe that they can do whatever they want and that...
    • ColonelRevolutionEnglish
      12·
      3 years ago

      Let’s not forget that major North American movies get funding from the military only if they paint the US in somewhat positive light.

      It’s a powerful state propaganda that works on exporting their “values” into the outside world - this cultural imperialism gets ingrained in our imagination and most people never get to truly understand that. To this day I can’t fully shake off some positive associations with the US that were put in my brain since choldhiod childhood with the help of US media. It’s disgusting, really.

        • ColonelRevolutionEnglish
          7·
          3 years ago

          Thanks for the recommendation, I will watch it this week.

          It’s scary how literally every problem the documentary talks about has only gotten far, far worse in the 30 years since.

          That was also my feeling when I was reading Lenin for the first time…