Why can’t every show just be a parade of awooga libertarian-alert hypersus with lmayo us-foreign-policy “nonpolitical” characteristics where not a single uncomfortable thought might reach the treat hogs’ unbothered heads?

They babble about 1984 but what they want is the cheap lazy noisy thought-terminating spectacles from Fahrenheit 451.

  • ashinadash [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    joyce-messier All media critical of capitalism will eventually be subsumed by capitalism and sold back, capitalism’s great power is to absorb critique of itself, etc etc

    • DragonBallZinn [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      12·
      2 months ago

      That’s partially what I have assumed.

      Look at older Pixar, Bug’s Life and Wall-e have some pretty dire warnings to the dangers of capitalism. Pokémon is a franchise that’s grown so much Pikachu could give Ronald McDonald and Mickey Mouse a run for their money as the unofficial mascot of capitalism. Literally in the first game Giovanni is a warning about the dangers of corporate greed, and Lysandre is that same warning taken up to 11.

      I can’t help but think that porky either let this slip by him, or uses some self-deprecation intelligently. Oh, what are people going to do to revolt against him? Advocate to give him back discrimination AND child labor?