Social commentary thread

post   ABSOLUTE BULSHIT

most people deserve to be beaten to death with a blunt pipe

(see what i did there)
(because most social commentary is supposed to be subtle)
(but i chose to be blunt, because it fit the context)

I don't understand

most people deserve to be beaten to death with a blunt pipe

(see what i did there)
(because most social commentary is supposed to be subtle)
(but i chose to be blunt, because it fit the context)

     

I don't understand

this world doesn't understand

am I being too psuedoesoteric??

In one of my classes I'm learning about 90s Japan trendy dramas and this is one of the subjects broached.

The author Lukács argues that consumer investment in media culture valuates abstract commodities. In the context of the book she discusses image commodification as exemplified by Japanese tarento [popular, transmedial idols], who are used to sell lifestyles. Lifestyles are displayed through advertised goods and fashion trends, appealing to the viewer as a way to identify with lifestyles and through consumerism express their identity.

I find it borderline offensive that working-class culture is gripped by upper-class culture. Not because I think the working-class are "better," but because it is done with limitations. A movie, a game, a show, a song, even a book- media of any kind can be accepted 100%, fully, with no limitations once it reaches a certain level in The Popular Culture. If someone says they like The Goonies, whether they first saw it ten years or ten days ago, chances are whomever they're speaking to will at least have no actual problems with it, if not be completely enthusiastic and agree. But if what is "trendy" has to do with class lines, with life situations, there is always a limit to how far it can go. There is always going to be some combination of disdain, discomfort, mockery, and self-defense involved.

what's the price of gold these days?

Fuck the police

Where is the fucking justice

In one of my classes I'm learning about 90s Japan trendy dramas and this is one of the subjects broached.

The author Lukács argues that consumer investment in media culture valuates abstract commodities. In the context of the book she discusses image commodification as exemplified by Japanese tarento [popular, transmedial idols], who are used to sell lifestyles. Lifestyles are displayed through advertised goods and fashion trends, appealing to the viewer as a way to identify with lifestyles and through consumerism express their identity.

one could argue that the nature of advertisement is built upon the memetic expression of identity itself, which in theory would aspire the socially successful.

FUCK THE MEDIAAAAA

what's the price of gold these days?

what's the price of gold these days?

nobody can save you now

what's the price of gold these days?

nobody can save you now

This is our fucking society

what's the price of gold these days?

nobody can save you now

WELCOME TO THE FUTURE, BITCHES

most people deserve to be beaten to death with a blunt pipe

(see what i did there)
(because most social commentary is supposed to be subtle)
(but i chose to be blunt, because it fit the context)

bluntly put