#Capitalism Critique

[alwaysbewoke]

true, and they know it. it’s by design.

#capitalism critique #malcolm x quote #bloodsucker #vulturistic #social justice #anti-colonial #systemic injustice #civil rights #economic critique #exploitative system

[hannaxjo]

so i just started my first job, and it’s telemarketing. i have done it for one day, and my hatred for capitalism (which already was higher than average) just fucking doubled. because this is the most useless job made, and it exists purely because of capitalism. i work, because i need money, because that’s the only way you can survive in this shit ass world. but the whole thing is so fucking inhumane. for the seller and the customer. a society doesn’t need fucking telemarketing to exist. but because of this shitty ass system, we need money. i hate capitalism so much, and i hate this fucking job.

#capitalism #capitalism sux #i hate capitalism #telemarketing #job #first job #and it sucks #capitalist society #society #rant #capitalism rant #capitalism ruins everything #and like #i enjoy talking to people #but all these conversations are so fucking fake #and both sides just feel shit after it #if i get another job i’m so fucking out of here #text post #capitalism critique #every minute kills the last shreds of my mental health

[nnr-javed]

#Predatory Capitalism #Systemic Change #Economic Systems #Capitalism Critique #Resistance #Reform #Global Warming #2008 Financial Crash #Middle East Conflicts

[etrangersvoyageant]

I'm sick of this society. 'Earn a living' as if I'm not yet living; lobotomized and robotized from birth, they tell me I can't do anything I want to do in the subtlest and sneakiest ways possible. Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula by Kathy Acker

#quote #Kathy Acker #Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula #on society #capitalism critique

[nicholasandriani]

Uncovering the Past from Above: Dr. Sarah Parcak's Vision for the Future of Archaeology

Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past by Dr. Sarah Parcak is a remarkable book that explores the intersection of archaeology and space technology. As a pioneer in the field of space archaeology, Dr. Parcak has used satellite imagery to discover thousands of previously unknown archaeological sites around the world. In this book, Dr. Parcak takes the reader on a journey through…

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#Advocacy #Archaeology #book review #Capitalism Critique #Climate Change #Conflict #Cultural Heritage #Dr. Sarah Parcak #Equity #Ethics #Future Thinking #Global Perspective #Human History #Innovation #Interdisciplinary #Looting #Newspaper #Preservation #research #Satellite Imagery #Space Archaeology #Sustainability #technology

[deancasforcutie]

"Now you live in a secret bunker with an angel and Lucifer’s kid", AKA queering domesticity par excellence

#something capital-q Queer about the way they create a life within The Life unlike the heteronormative 'apple pie life' the show critiques #(and just the way they're masculine mlm never stereotyped into 'man/woman' roles even with constant parallels to m/f pairings) #it's barrier-breaking and they're very special to me 🥺 #dean winchester #castiel #destiel #spnedit #supernatural #spn #parallels #dean is bi #spn is queer #mine

[tikkunolamresistance]

from @ tizemtmarxism on x.com

#anti zionism #critical thought #critique #zionist criticism #jewish #judaism #anti capitalism #jumblr #anti imperialism #jewish thought #free palestine

[commsroom]

memoria is incredibly close to my heart, but when i listen to it now, it's hard not to think about the undertones re: how therapy as an institution handles disability. maxwell's objective was always to help hera get back to work, to find accommodations she could function under, or otherwise to replace her. "i'm sorry you feel like you can't do your job." maxwell presents her solutions in a less hostile framing, but her methods are the same ones cutter threatens hera with in her live show performance review (re: deleting her memories) and it's something she intends to do regardless of hera's consent. maxwell's practice aligns with goddard's interests, and of course it does. there's something about therapy as maintenance, and the treatment of the disabled mind and/or body as a broken machine.

hera is used to being condescended to and taunted for her limitations ("we all have our limits. you can't do what you can't do. it's not your fault.") and that intersects with her trauma ("i can't do this. i'm not good enough.") in a way that inherently ties her self worth to her ability to be useful and perform a job. as a result, she has a gut reaction to and a resistance to anyone suggesting she might not be capable of something, or that she might need help, and that makes her constantly push herself past her limits, causing real damage. the problem is that hera is disabled, there are things she can't do, and she hasn't been given the security or compassion to really come to terms with that. no amount of ways to manage doing her job will really help the core problem; she needs to be able to separate her concept of self worth from her productivity. "we get things wrong, and we get better." is a nice sentiment, but i think it applies more to interpersonal conflict than physical burnout. hera even directly calls back to and casts doubt on that specific line later in the show.

that's why eiffel matters so much to hera. when eiffel says "you can do anything" - he believes that, he has that kind of sincere faith in all of his friends, but he means it even when it's disproven. he's seen her fail. he's seen her make mistakes. it doesn't matter because it isn't about what he expects of her, it's about who she is to him. minkowski is the commander, even when she's not. hera can do anything, even when she can't. eiffel values people, not their jobs. if hera didn't have a supercomputer for a brain, she would still be the same to him; it's who she is and her companionship that he wants. i'm not saying that what maxwell did for hera was useless - it's effective therapy that gave her a clearer understanding of herself, and a framework to understand what's been happening to her; that's extremely valuable. but that alone would not have been enough. what hera thinks of at the end of memoria, what actually pulls her through, is the support and care that eiffel and minkowski continually show to her.

#wolf 359 #w359 #hera wolf 359 #there's a lot you can say about um. doctors. in wolf 359 #while i think the writers are pretty pro-therapy and some of this was probably not directly intentional #there is an awareness of worthiness wrt capitalism and productivity in the show that i think seeps through #even if they didn't mean to critique it in quite that way. it resonates. #this is my life and you don't get to rewrite it to fit what you need...

[ot3]

posts like this are so funny to me because all i do is reblog other people's stuff and make posts that are about as substantial as 'i think phoenix wright would watch that show where japanese childen run errands and sob through the whole thing' and i have 3x the followers here that i do on my art blog.

#whenever people complain about the effects Capitalism has had on Fandom it's never meaningful critique #theyre just always mad theyre not getting the attention online they want #corporations are not the reason you are not getting tumblr notes. i promise

[jojotier]

The way that Shadows House is about how the rich exploit the poor and desperate for everything yet that exploitation isn't innate; the fact that exploitation is taught to their children and how the shadows are meant to dehumanize their """living dolls""" and try to stop them from maintaining individual personalities while the soot children themselves are given form in these poor children's likeness. The fact that living dolls drink "coffee" and that's what brainwashes them into being completely compliant and dependent on the ideology of the Shadows being superior to them in every way and thus the House cannot be questioned. The fact that shadows are meant to steal their human "doll's" very face in the process of becoming an adult. The fact that becoming an adult means killing someone deemed "lesser" than you. The fact that what's truly seen as radical are the shadow children who decide Not to exploit and harm their dolls, who treat them as individuals, cherished family, and dear dear friends. The fact that for a shadow to become an "adult" they have to kill this cherished person. I am Thinking So Many Thoughts

#shadows house #god this wntire manga is So Much #its got everything. found family. seeing yourself in the other. critiques of capitalism #child murder also

[communistkenobi]

there are valid reasons to have an antagonistic relationship to academic scholarship, but those reasons are overwhelmingly not raised in graduate classrooms, where students instead bitch about theory in general, jargon in general, making them sound ultimately like conservatives, who view any attempt to systematically account for social phenomena as a form of useless intellectual degeneracy

#you’re in a PhD program and you’re bitching about reading theory? Aren’t you just a little bit embarrassed? #this is a vague about my graduate cohort lol don’t mind me #I have increasingly little patience for grad students who refuse to engage with anything even slightly abstract or dense #you are literally in a social science graduate program. That is like one of the primary tasks you need to do in grad school #If you want to engage with it for the purposes of critique that is completely acceptable #but seeing a word you don’t know and immediately quitting and dismissing it as useless nonsense is not going to get you very far #we have to read Capital for our comps lol. what are you gonna do then

[mejomonster]

Modu by priest was truly such a good read. If you like romance? It has a sweeping romance, with a well done bisexual and gay lead (and straight best friend) all written in ways that manage to feel realistic, it's got features people likely found it for when looking for a danmei - rich manipulative younger man, older investigator who's got a hero streak, and yet those categories don't really do justice to them (and of course tao ran is the more grounded detective story lead who keeps his theories to himself and worries about dragging others into his mess).

They're so much more... Fei Du is a traumatized young man who's worried he's as monstrous as the people who scarred him, who is preparing to take the leap and cross the line to become an even more terrifying version of himself if it will destroy the corruption poisoning this city and harming so many, Luo Wenzhou is a cop that used to want to be a hero and learned he will fail people and be unable to save people and holds onto Fei Du as someone who reminds him he DOES fail but also reminds him why he wants so hard to keep Trying to help people even when it seems impossible... why trying and putting in effort to care and help Even when its too late to fix things is Worthwhile. Tao Ran is a contrast to them both, Fei Du living in a world where there's only monsters and victims and Luo Wenzhou desperately trying to force the world to be a place where justice CAN prevail and win even as he sees it fail over and over, trying so hard to believe all people have the capacity for everything and are worth trying to save. Even though Fei Du doesm't believe that, being around Luo Wenzhou makes him want to consider it. Tao Ran, their contrast? Believing the world can go either way, and its up to people like him to create any justice at all, any structure at all, or else everything is just meaningless suffering chaos. As characters, the three of them serve to explore how the world works and views on it in terms of a detective murder mystery encompassing the whole city, the small scale version of the world. Modu is a romance, but its also fully commited to being a murder mystery that wants to tackle the kind of themes that come up in the setting it's created. Its characters are so much more than Insert Character Ship types here. These characters were made this way to explore these ideas (just as the villains are all made to parallel and contrast Fei Du to explord these ideas in comparison to our point of view Fei Du moments, our impressions of Fei Du from Luo Wenzhou and Tao Rans varied perspectives, all of them are different lenses to view humanity and how it works, if the world is just or if we have to make it good, if we can be inherently good and if good people will reach out to us if we just keep treading water to survive, if its luck and chaos, and how much... and much more frankly).

Modu is like. If you want a story about a corrupt city and its victims, symbolizing a corrupt world and all of us at its mercy, and you want to see the heart of the people doing something about it. First the main trio, but also every victim Fei Du recruits to help, every murderer recruited to the corruption, all the people in the cases swayed to some side. Thats what Modu is about.

The romance is just one facet of exploring that, the personal debate about what these things mean about the world as told through two people who view this world incredibly differently. Yet find some way to exist in the same space, same mutual world, when together. It hooks you in and doesn't let you go and youre wondering right there with them, left to draw your own meaning in the end. Hopefully that its worth trying, that doing something is worth trying even when its just the trying you can do and not the succeeding, at least thats what I got from it (at least in regards to Fei Du and Luo Wenzhou meeting each other, unable to live up to the pillar they put each other on but trying anyway, is what I felt from them).

Then like? Modu gives you THAT story, which in its own right is enough to make you contemplate.

And if you're like me and care about people, about characters? Well it gives you, like I said, those big themes and a city's nightmares symbolizing the world, and brings them down to an individual level. You read from the mind of the little girl who grew up in this (one of my favorite scenes and when I felt this novel was going to not shy away from dark psychological moments and bringing them to you). You read from the mind of Fei Du when he knows himself, when he doesn't. You read from the minds of all kinds of people, and the heart of much of the investigation is peoples motives and things they'd gone through and how that shaped what they'd do next. Why they'd do it. Leaving you to wonder who's right. Jaded idealist Luo Wenzhou who wants to believe in the goodness of the people he loves, but also is willing to risk that strangers may have good intent? Fei Du who thinks theres only victims and perpetrators and everyone is going to fall into one in the right circumstance? Tao Ran, who feels the world is too messy to dare declare predictable, who thinks even your closest can betray you and even you can accidentally hurt them, nevermind strangers, and the only thing you can control and rely on is your own choices? Some mix? None of them? The side characters as they come up, grow and evolve, do they understand the world better or worse, and is the world they experience different than anothers and justify why their worldview is likewise different? Modu gives you that up close and personal, over and over. Im still thinking about it. And the way its done, they all get to feel like lived in people. Not structures to tell the themes only. But on their own, there's a personal struggle between Fei Du feeling like a monster who'll destroy Lup Wenzhou if he loves him, like his dad destroyed his mom, and Luo Wenzhou carrying the guilt he could never save Fei Du and desperate to believe in Fei Du (and keep trying to save him in that way if only that way) as person who can do good despite not being saved and despite Fei Du's fears. You could cut the entire city's plot away, all of the crimes and make the city calm, and still that core of their plot would be carrying a Lot of weight. Theyre playing a game of "enemies" to lovers sure, or whatever romance story structures they fit into. But they're also made to be deeply rooted into each other, their personal beliefs tied into the outcome of what they hope or fear happens if they are close together. Modu made me care about that. Its like the fears many people might have, abiut theur own flaws, about getting close to others, about trusting and being unsure if that trust is safe to give. Its that and magnified into bigger form, in this landscape of a fucked up city and the tragedy of Fei Du and Luo Wenzhou's meeting and former lives.

Its like. Id love to to read another danmei (Ive got a lot on my to read list). But what's going to give me roo

#modu #silent reading #lb #meta #like... modu was so fucking good. #it was 3 characters symbolizing their city symbolizing the world in terms of worldviews morality justice and if theres a point to #trying to help at all. like damn #i want to read ANOTHER danmei that makes me weigh those questions. that uses the characters this personally and intimately with the readers #because the Characters weigh the themes in their OWN lives so heavily. #like... i know priest can probably give me this kind of huge delivery in can ci pin and sha po lang (at least i estimate #priesr probably can as theyre very popular novels by priest) #and 2ha can (because ive read half and know its themes) #but like. what other danmei can? can thousand autumns? can peerless? can wu shang jie? #can Mistakenly Saving the Villain? #like... the only non priest danmei i read was svsss and i got supremely lucky #cause i personally LOVE satire and critique commentary affection for the topics it explores #and svsss AS a satire is incredibly well done. having read 2ha first? and seen Eternal Love? #svsss does an amazing job at critiquing webnovel culture and flaws. at the way capitalism effects writing #at the way some tropes have become staples of certain genres and when used well yeah you get 2ha but when used badly you get #the fake novel svsss was making fun of that there Are many real novels like

[hiroshotreplica]

most normal stardew valley player

#rambling #i think this counts as a critique on capitalism

[watchingwisteria]

“katniss played the games but peeta played the game” “there wouldn’t have been a revolution without katniss” actually let’s stopped the rugged american brand of individualism right there ✋🛑 katniss starts strong with the motive to protect her sister and get back to her family who relied on her, but peeta was also willing to risk everything in a suicide pact to try to live past the games, and haymitch bought into their marketing strategy, doing everything he could to help one of them live (because both of them winning was impossible up until the nightshade trick). but at this point, everyone planned to go back to 12 and have a semi-normal life after that — until they couldn’t. coriolanus snow sparked the revolution by trying to stamp out a few smouldering embers, and everyone else subsequently rose to the challenge to overthrow his government. everyone involved in the revolution had an essential part to play. it wouldn’t have been successful if they hadn’t worked together, relied on each other, played to each other’s strengths and compensated for others’ weaknesses. there was no singular person on whom the entire thing relied, even if katniss often felt that way (being the teenaged voice of a people will do that to you). katniss might have been the face, but she also needed others to act as the head, the body, and the sword. everyone was necessary.

#the hunger games #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #haymitch abernathy #finnick odair #johanna mason #seeing weird takes in tiktok 🙁💔 critique of american culture doesnt stop at war and violence and capitalism yall #i need to read the books again so i can cite my sources

[balis77]

Korean game devs be like "What if we made a fucked up version of this famous piece of literature, taking place in this equally, if not more, fucked up city."

#limbus company #lies of p #library of ruina #and it's also a critique of capitalism on some level #and the biggest source of power in-setting is embracing your true self #seriously why is this like a genre in korea and how do we make it a genre world wide

[thepringlesofblood]

don't make me tap the sign

[image id: screenshot of the simpsons "don't make me tap the sign" meme, where the sign is edited to read "“Hastur was a Duke of Hell. Crowley wasn’t even a local councilor” - Good Omens (1990)" /end id]

update: re-read the book lately and realized they spell it "counsellor" bc they're british. this makes sense but it also means my american ass can't help but read "counsellor" as the american "counselor" which is like a therapist or mental health consultant (the way i spelled it originally is like. someone who sits on a council. which is what i'm sure they meant). just wanted to share the fun image of crowley as a therapist ("I see I see. have you tried yelling at plants?"), or even funnier, that "Duke" as a title is like. a level above therapist. grand therapist. high throne of therapy. tier 1 therapist hastur la vista.

#it's very important to me personally that crowley is truly just some guy #like yes he's the serpent of eden and technically invented human sin #which basically just got him a pat on the back and then put to work for the next 6000 years #while the ceo (satan) largely gets the credit for the whole apple thing #bc good omens is a critique of bureaucracy and capitalism #crowley's not special bc of his status with hell or even who he used to be in heaven #he's special bc he's *crowley* #he's special bc he's imaginative and creative and optimistic and clever #he's lived and loved and worked on earth for so long that its had the same profound effect on him that it does on aziraphale #that gives them the perspective that heaven and hell lack #idk its just. a lot of feelings for me #good omens #original post #image id