The reactionary backlash to media analysis is a natural part of the wider “fascists hate anything intellectual” phenomenon, btw.
Wanting you to ignore the politics of Star Wars comes from the same exact place that wants you to substitute the germ theory of disease with the ‘sickness comes from failure to be a good christian and most people who claim to be sick are just faking anyway’ myth.
They don’t want these complexities to exist, and by talking about them, you make them exist. It’s a form of magical thought. Talking about police brutality wills police brutality into existence. A disruption of the status quo is seen as a disruption of the natural order. The problem they see is that no-one has made those people shut up. That is what they want: someone to come in and make those people shut up and go away, to put things back “where they belong.”
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Their will is a hammer that they are using to beat reality itself into a shape of their choosing, a simple world where reality is exactly what it looks like through their eyes, devoid of complexity, devoid of change, where they are right and their enemies are silent. They are trying to build a flat earth.
I think this has been posted on here before but this one always makes me laugh
For those not in on the joke. The Soviets were considered an Allied nation during wwii.
Only two nations deployed troops against the Soviets, and those were Nazi Germany and Fascist Spain.
And Fascist Italy, Kingdom of Romania, Kingdom of Hungary, Slovak Republic, and “Independent” State of Croatia. Just to get everyone on the shame train.
Point of order: “Cowboy times” and “The Wild West” went well into the 1880s-1890s, and even into the early 20th century in some more remote places, which means the REAL question is why there aren’t more stories where a former samurai comes to the American West and becomes a cowboy, learning the strange customs of this new land while bringing his own code of honor that sometimes puts him on the wrong side of the corrupt sheriff or something… You see the vision.
Being able to force every last job in existence to make itself sufficiently respectful, acceptable, and worthwhile to the worker that someone will choose to do it when NOT goaded by the threat of starvation is probably both the greatest positive effect UBI would accomplish AND the real reason it faces so much opposition.
Capitalism needs an underclass. It’s not that these jobs are less valuable - in fact, many of them are necessary for society to function. (thank you, sanitation workers!) It’s more that capitalism needs these jobs to be seen as less-than so that they can get away with treating these people like shit - bad wages, bad treatment, etc.
If everyone got UBI, a lot of jobs would stand empty. Not because people don’t want to do them, but people don’t want the bad treatment that comes with them. Employers would be forced to change their methods if they wanted to hire and retain staff, and they don’t want to do it.
