The “USSR Evil Rahhhhh!!!” people are insane.
Stalin didn’t kill enough Nazis and he was indeed hot
The number is now down to just a million? Stalin stays winning.
An aside that’s probably neither here nor there. …but is anyone else annoyed by today’s obsession with looks?
Creator has shit politics, but some talent too. Yet their profile is their attempt at the best jawline they can muster (and obv the song is about looks).
I (subjectively) remember a time when it was frowned upon to openly be all about looks. Now it seems cute to obsess over it? Thanks instagram?!
For a brief period this may felt kind of fresh, as if allowing for honesty where people would have been anxious to be branded superficial.
Now it feels like people are …well, just superficial. …and I really don’t find it cute amymore.
Tell you what it makes me think of. The “personal brand” stuff. Unsure if the two are related, but would not be surprised if they are. The cultural stuff of turning online presence into a “brand” in order to “sell yourself”. Most notably encouraged for artisans / small business owners, but can probably affect others too. Basically capitalism encouraging people to turn themselves into a marketable commodity.
I think you’re absolute right. It’s so crazy how deeply capitalism is poisoning us as humans.
Other modes of production ofc also imposed a superstructure on the individual, but nothing twists our minds like capitalism does. Because nothing required it to that extend. And most of the stuff is generational. The alienation of the worker that intrudes into every aspect of interpersonal life, the sense of self-worth that is commodified, individualism fooling you into viewing the cure to your issues as the problem, the list goes on and on.
And all of this is generational, parents and teachers ingraining systemic anxiety into children, families atomizing to the point of being non-existent, workers enslaving themselves in their own mental prisons unable to get out even if they see it, because it has reached the roots of their self-worth and has crippled their facilities for communal relationships.
We really do need loving, communal support by each other to trace back to our humanity and to be able to fight this together. And then heal that multi-generational capitalist trauma we all suffer from.
