Like a story can literally beat someone over the head with a theme or moral and people somehow come to the opposite conclusion?

It’s like “Tyler Durden is so manly and cool” except every bit of media feels like it’s misinterpreted like that now.

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    34·
    16 days ago

    Beat me to it. It’s not about media literacy but narrative spinning. In this day and age, the more intellectual, the more complicatated, the more nuanced your ideas? The worse. Complexity and nuance are liabilities in this new world.

    The good news is we can do it too. One of the best ways to disarm a fascist soyjak meme is just get dumber and say “soyjak right tho.”

    • mayakovsky [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      48·
      16 days ago

      In this day and age, the more intellectual, the more complicatated, the more nuanced your ideas? The worse. Complexity and nuance are liabilities in this new world.

      This gave me a flashback to the debates in 2020 when Biden(?) asked Bernie to explain his economic plan or whatever, Bernie said “Do you have an hour?”, and Biden(?) said “that’s the problem”. The crowd cheered. This was the one where the crowd also booed literacy.

    • Self_Sealing_Stem_Bolt [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      23·
      16 days ago

      I disagree. That might be what chuds and some libs do, but in my experience if you know what you’re talking about (more likely than them) you can just dance in fuckin circles around them cause they know NOTHING. Its hilarious in a black comedy kinda way. You can short circuit westerners pretty easy ime