I would say the Frankfurt School, since Adorno tried to claim that inaction is the highest form of praxis (Predicting the existence of the terminally online? /s) and the fact that they’re most famous for talking about popular culture (“the culture industry”).
Who’s the mf that created the “peaceful protests are best” thing and then went to work for the CIA’s color revolution front? Him.
Adorno tried to claim that inaction is the highest form of praxis
I wouldn’t say that, it’s more like “doing any form of praxis will lead us to nazism” which is pretty much rooted in the idea that westerners are too brainwashed to do any kind of revolution so reaction will always takeover
At least that’s my understanding of the Dialectics of Enlightenment, and I will say nobody in the Frankfurt-School-I-am-very-smart crowd actually read it
What a delicious question 😋
Probably not what you were thinking of, but for me growing up, it was George Carlin.
He has some cringe content for sure, but he was also one of the few mainstream figures that used his platform to criticize consumerism, finance capitalism, US exceptionalism, inequality, US wars, mass incarceration, it’s treatment of the poor and minorities, reactionary religious attitudes.
He got up on a stage and talked about how we should have public executions of bankers responsible for financial crimes on TV during the half-time show of the super bowl. The only country brave enough to carry out that program now is China.
