Every time I see westerns post some brainworms shit the usual response is “well propaganda is a hell of a drug”.

But if western propaganda is really that effective, how the fuck did we get here? I’d think if it was really this good at melting people’s brain’s it’d be effective enough to prevent communities like this from even existing. So like are we special or something?

Also raises the question, if we’re able to get over this BS, wtf is everyone else’s excuse for falling hook-line-and-sinker for it?

  • ButtBidet [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Material conditions.

    I think that it’s worth emphasising this point. In the Anglo West, most white people have been materially much better off than most of the world. This is probably declining a lot, but there’s still a huge demographic of people who can focus on treats and avoid living stress, unlike much of the world for whom daily survival is still rather stressful. Amerika has been successful by moving much of the hardship onto its colonised non-white people. It’s very telling that most of the revolutionary movements in the US came from non-white people. (Although I’m not going to discount that there were genuine white revolutionaries and revolutionary movements.)

    Real problems in the US will happen when most of its white population becomes protelariatised. The upcoming fascist movements are reaction to the growing class consciousness of the average white Westerner.