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I'm trying to put into words how people only being able to care about real world events by relating them to popular fiction they consumed is product of our disconnection and disenfranchisement under late-stage capitalism but IDK how to actually fully articulate it.
Like, I feel like people not being able to connect to other humans without doing it through some kind of consumable media is a *purposeful* action in our current system because then even the ways we connect with one another are profitable.
and people don't genuinely connect with one another anymore because of the constraints of the system we're in (i.e., people are too tired after working to socialize but you can veg out to netflix without significant energy use)
And that disconnection serves the powers that be...
And that disconnection serves the powers that be...
And also like, it's not "sad" when people connect to real life events that are strange or unfamiliar to them through media or fiction -- that's the god damn point of fiction. To help us learn to relate to things like that and I'd really like if people would stop that too.
That's more of an aside, but it's how I got onto this train of thought.
I'm ALSO wondering if a lot of people who think that they're introverts aren't actually introverts but are just too exhausted to do anything other than rest.
I'm ALSO wondering if a lot of people who think that they're introverts aren't actually introverts but are just too exhausted to do anything other than rest.
I'm SURE that this is like, something that's already been discussed in leftist academia but I'm not an academic and I've not actually read ANY leftist academic papers or anything like that because it makes me fucking exhausted and I'd rather come to conclusions myself.
