Baizuo leftists are preaching ‘Death To America’ while collecting Star Wars figurines and looping pop music.
Honestly I’m starting to come around to the see culture as part of the control, the way the more Muslim wing of anti-imperialism does.
I’m a Taylor Swift style maoist.
The content itself? Sure some of it.
Individual leftists being interested in things normal people like though is not bad.
Hegemonic western individualist consumption culture most definitely is
A lifetime of ongoing propaganda, from subtext to out loud exposition, telling pop culture consumers that they are smart independent ruggedly individualistic free thinking rebels because they accept/support the status quo while perceiving anyone trying to improve society somewhat as wrong/childish/going-too-far, has consequences.