novibe
Man the way I see it, the whole purpose of communism is to free the individual to fully live our lives. To learn, create and play.
Those are the things that make humanity, and being a human, awesome. Without those things our lives are just empty survival.
And I just think how you view “pop culture” is a bit due to elitism (not yours per se, systemically), and how we view things made “for the masses” to be low quality and to have no worth.
I see all art after the revolution being popular art. All culture being pop culture.
When you mention “video games”, “super heroes”, and IPs, you are not seeing the pop culture, you are seeing the capitalism.
And art is not something we “worry” about. It’s what makes all the worrying of life matter.
Do you think comics are inferior to opera? Do you think fantasy books are inferior to symphonies? Do you think point-and-click games are inferior to still life paintings?
Or do you just think art is useless? Or worse, detrimental to the human experience?
I’m honestly asking.
Pop culture is music, it’s painting, it’s theatre. It’s not just video games and movies. And it can be other things in the future as well.
It’s literally just art for the people, for the masses. That’s us.
Unless you don’t think art has any purpose, you have no reason to oppose “pop culture”, instead of how capitalism distorts and commodifies our popular expressions to control more and more of our reality.
Your issues with “pop culture” are issue with capitalism and commodification of all aspects of our lives. And people’s survival reactions to that.
Pop culture is popular culture. Culture of the people. In juxtaposition to “high art”, or art for the elites.
We should champion good pop culture. It’s OUR culture.
I used to feel like Rubber Soul was their best album, and their later albums were overrated.
Then I stopped listening to them for a long long time. And after revisiting their discography I’ve come to appreciate Abbey Road more and more.
Even Magical Mystery Tour that I hated I kinda like now tbh.
I still hate Sgt. Pepper’s tho.
The idea that communism will have no treats is toxic to our movement.
Communist games and movies will be leagues better than what we currently have.
I love weird esoteric shit like this, where is this from?