The power of the mainstream
Jun. 30th, 2005 11:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pasitheaThis link contains shots of the 9/11 footage. If you're not easily offended, watch it with the sound on.
So.. It's sick, isn't it. Distrubing, upsetting, and ... It probably made you giggle. It did me.
That makes this probably the best video EVER because it exposes what the right wing does to women's rights, gay rights, the disabled, and on down the line. No matter how awful and unpleasant something is, if you put a laugh track to it, you can make people laugh and by doing that, you can desensatize them to the pain, suffering, and horror of anything. We can see this video for what it is and still feel for the people who lost their friends and loved ones in the world trade center collapse, but that's because all of the pull of the media is to remind us of that. Take and issue like gay rights where the tone is reversed though and... No one cares about gay rights. Gays are funny. We can laugh at them and ignore everything they suffer. The same goes for feminists, blacks, and everyone else.
This video, produced by some schmuck thinking he's clever inadvertently lays bare the face of the true nature of the mainstream media. Nothing spreads like a joke, even a joke in poor taste, most people will elect to whisper it to their friends with the added conspiritorial nod that of course you don't believe this but it's still funny. No one ever seems to realize that laughter is more closely linked to hate than rage, and this is why liberals are losing the culture war with conservatives. We know what it's like to be on the receiving end of a 'joke', and we try not to laugh at people who are different from us because we want to respect their ideals. Conservatives in their ignorant childishness are not so restrained.
Next time something makes you laugh, pause a moment to think about why. Just remember.
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry out against it and... you're all alone.
So.. It's sick, isn't it. Distrubing, upsetting, and ... It probably made you giggle. It did me.
That makes this probably the best video EVER because it exposes what the right wing does to women's rights, gay rights, the disabled, and on down the line. No matter how awful and unpleasant something is, if you put a laugh track to it, you can make people laugh and by doing that, you can desensatize them to the pain, suffering, and horror of anything. We can see this video for what it is and still feel for the people who lost their friends and loved ones in the world trade center collapse, but that's because all of the pull of the media is to remind us of that. Take and issue like gay rights where the tone is reversed though and... No one cares about gay rights. Gays are funny. We can laugh at them and ignore everything they suffer. The same goes for feminists, blacks, and everyone else.
This video, produced by some schmuck thinking he's clever inadvertently lays bare the face of the true nature of the mainstream media. Nothing spreads like a joke, even a joke in poor taste, most people will elect to whisper it to their friends with the added conspiritorial nod that of course you don't believe this but it's still funny. No one ever seems to realize that laughter is more closely linked to hate than rage, and this is why liberals are losing the culture war with conservatives. We know what it's like to be on the receiving end of a 'joke', and we try not to laugh at people who are different from us because we want to respect their ideals. Conservatives in their ignorant childishness are not so restrained.
Next time something makes you laugh, pause a moment to think about why. Just remember.
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry out against it and... you're all alone.
Re: Spectacle
Date: 2005-07-02 09:55 pm (UTC)Even the tsunami disaster has been blown out of proportion by media coverage. What is it? Maybe 1/100th of the population was affected? That isn't much. The black death of the middle ages had death tolls 50 times higher. I am so sick of panic reports on flus and STD's while people are dying in squalor and neo-monarchist police states are more interested in keeping the elite wealthy and sending the healthy off to war. Shit like tidal waves happen, but the real tragedies are the indonesian governments and military interventions from wealthy countries.
Sometimes it is better to laugh than it is to cry.