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NoYank. Remove All American Media And Culture From Your Life@lemmy.ml · 20 days ago

South Korean author Han Kang wins 2024 Nobel Prize in literature

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South Korean author Han Kang wins 2024 Nobel Prize in literature

www.aljazeera.com

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NoYank. Remove All American Media And Culture From Your Life@lemmy.ml · 20 days ago

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The first South Korean to win the literature prize said she would ‘celebrate it quietly’ and have tea with her son.

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Human Acts is phenomenal.
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  Oh yeah? In what ways?
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    It’s a great book from multiple POVs about the aftermath of the Gwang-Ju massacre. She pulls no punches, but has a beautiful writing style.

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Anti-imperialist comm to help you in your personal journey of cultural anti-imperialism.

American culture has spread all over the world, it has dumbed down and impoverished our variegated pre-colonial and non-capitalist cultures. Every time you yank yourself, a bit of their culture worms its way into your mind. Sometimes it’s explicit propaganda like Top Gun, but sometimes it’s subtle: the contempt shown for the poor, the celebration of selfishness, the value-system of their empire.

All inputs enter the mind, are absorbed, and blossom as thoughts and deeds. Mass-produced culture dulls you and makes you a boring, mass-produced personality. And nations are losing their personality by letting one imperial power do this to them.

That the empire is doing this as a more-or-less deliberate tool of influence doesn’t need stressing.

Stop doing this to yourself. Don’t watch their television. Don’t watch their films. Don’t read their stupid news and politics: ABC and CNN and NBC and the rest. Don’t be so fucking boring. You don’t have to be boring and stupid. Turn off your TV. Pick up some of your country’s classic books, or listen to African funk, or go to a storytelling night.

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