>>214233718
The rhetoric itself doesn't matter so much. The idea of
>speaking truth to power
is often homogenized into simply selling the feeling of being a good person back to you because you went to see the movie and agreed that yes its bad to push people into a cattlecar underclass to serve a few overlords in luxury. However that in and of itself doesn't really mean anything if it lacks context. Its not saying something that is really surprising anyone, everyone kind of agrees with the sentiment but can't see how it connects to their everyday life if they don't have the ability or interest to think about it in depth. . its not really putting some radically new concept out there that is "dangerous" to the status quo. Now, may latter example for instance is a better choice because people have gotten so used to the underdog uprisings, but maybe they haven't considered that the very system thats fucking them over has found a way to subsume their desire and interest in revolution, yet repackage it into something that profits that system and undermines any actual action against it.
This is not a new concept at all and capitalism has done this for a very long time. occasional attempts to point this out have usually been lauded if done well but it still depends on people to act to actually change things, but generally people need to be reminded of this stuff. These days for instance a movie where some corpo was paying both incel/manosphere stereotypes and bluehaired tranny stereotypes to shunt people into different parts of the same streaming media empires at the behest of their financial/political backers would be a good option etc.
>>214233813
Maybe? Its been awhile. I think the 15M Merits one was more about pure consumerism and reality TV game/fameshows. Wasn't that the one where the guy lived in a panopticon and had to pedal a bike to get enough credits to turn off the ads for a few seconds, while everyone dreamed of getting stream-famous?
