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.
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.
I mostly agree. I just think it’s useful to engage with people a lot more often than is appearant.
People oftentimes won’t tell you when you changed their mind even in small ways, because they have their pride.
I don’t think that recognizing something like a Nazi allegory is that trivial, as antifascists, we are just very practiced at it.
Yeah, I’m with you on that.
I think the cumulative effect of a lot of small discussions like this amount to qualitative change in people’s values and you’re right in that you don’t often see it. I believe that the person themselves often doesn’t even notice it, especially when it’s small, but over time if there’s enough of these moments then it can often set them down a different path or it can even bring on an epiphany.
I know for me, I was an anarchist for a very long time. I often say that finally reading Lenin’s What Is To Be Done? is what brought about the watershed moment for me but there’s a series of smaller events and experiences I had that led up to that point as well, and that’s only of the ones that I can definitely identify. I’m certain there are other ones that made an impact that I wouldn’t be able to recall that shifted my outlook in subtle ways too.