Remove All American Media And Culture From Your Life
Anti-imperialist comm to help you in your personal journey of cultural anti-imperialism.
American culture has spread all over the world, it has dumbed down and impoverished our variegated pre-colonial and non-capitalist cultures. Every time you yank yourself, a bit of their culture worms its way into your mind. Sometimes it's explicit propaganda like Top Gun, but sometimes it's subtle: the contempt shown for the poor, the celebration of selfishness, the value-system of their empire.
All inputs enter the mind, are absorbed, and blossom as thoughts and deeds. Mass-produced culture dulls you and makes you a boring, mass-produced personality. And nations are losing their personality by letting one imperial power do this to them.
That the empire is doing this as a more-or-less deliberate tool of influence doesn't need stressing.
Stop doing this to yourself. Don't watch their television. Don't watch their films. Don't read their stupid news and politics: ABC and CNN and NBC and the rest. Don't be so fucking boring. You don't have to be boring and stupid. Turn off your TV. Pick up some of your country's classic books, or listen to African funk, or go to a storytelling night.
Give recommendations of internationalist media. Discuss alternatives. ๐ถ๐ฅ๐บ๐ฎ๐ฐ
Bookclubs for anti-imperialist books or just any non-american books
Complain about americanised people and culture.
Talk about your motivations. Share your personal journal of de-americanisation.
Yeah, I used o go to them sometime in Ring, mostly in English, one or two in the night in Irish.
There was one guy there used to collect myths from around the world, so he was an Irish-and-French fellow but he would be telling Greenlandic folklore as well as Irish.
Even if some of the performers were a bit try-hard it was interesting.
Candlelit Tales are a brother-sister duo who tell tales around Ireland at culture nights and everything.
hmmm, this is making me feel bad
I try to keep my nation's lore alive through books and youtube, but the oral art form is part of it. Form as well as content.
I like it when it's mythology, not when it's hipsters trying to be avant garde